Date: Thu, 27 Oct 1994 13:34:23 -0700
Subject: rec.aviation.misc #17401 - Re: FAA Airport/etc data tapes 

In article <3895c2$2s8@pendragon.jsc.nasa.gov>, kjenks@sd-www.jsc.nasa.gov (Kenneth C. Jenks) writes:
|> At ftp://aviation.jsc.nasa.gov/pub/fly/data/ we have the following
|> databases on-line now:
|> 
|> APT Landing Facilities (Airports)
|> 
|> ARB Air Route Traffic Control Center (ARTCC) Boundaries
|> 
|> FIX Airspace Fixes
|> 
|> LID Location Identifiers
|> 
|> NAV Navigational Aids
|> 
|> WXL Weather Reporting Locations
|> 
|> 
|> So we're missing the following databases from the FAA/National Flight
|> Data Center.
|> 
|> AFF/AFQ Air Route Traffic Control Center (ARTCC) Facilities and Frequencies
|> 
|> AWY Airways
|> 
|> COM Communications Outlets
|> 
|> FSS Flight Service Stations
|> 
|> HPF Holding Patterns
|> 
|> ILS Instrument Landing Systems
|> 
|> MTR Military Training Routes
|> 
|> OBS Obstructions
|> 
|> PFR Preferred and Tower Enroute Control (TEC) Routes
|> 
|> PJA Parachute Jumping Areas
|> 
|> SDD Standard Instrument Departures (SID)/Standard Terminal Arrival Routes (STAR)
|> 
|> SUA Special Use Airspace
|> 
|> TWR/SAT Terminal Communications Services (Air Traffic Control Towers)
|> 
|> 
|> We should have the rest of these databases up Real Soon Now.  Once
|> we get the procedures down, we'll get on periodic distribution and
|> keep them maintained until the FAA gets their own FTP server.
|> 
|> -- Ken Jenks, NASA/JSC/SD561, Space Biomedical Research Institute
|>       kjenks@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov  (713) 483-4368
|> 
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|>       with talent.  Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a
|>       proverb.  Education will not; the world is full of educated
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