Additional airport runway distance parameters

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Additional airport runway distance parameters #655

Open CarstenChristmann opened 4 years ago

CarstenChristmann commented 4 years ago

For the calculation of airfield (flight) performance, different airport runway distance parameters are required as shown here:

https://skybrary.aero/sites/default/files/Declared_Distances_2.jpg

Currently, the CPACS schema only includes LDA and TORA. Therefore, it is recommended to add

Accelerate Stop Distance Available (ASDA) /cpacs/airports/airport/runways/runway/aSDA

Take-off Distance Available (TODA) /cpacs/airports/airport/runways/runway/tODA

CarstenChristmann commented 2 months ago

After nearly four years...how can we proceed in this matter?

MarAlder commented 2 months ago

I propose the following:

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Some thoughts:

I would like to avoid the camelCase style on abbreviations in all future modifications and extensions.
According to developer guideline §5 (Element names should be descriptive avoiding abbreviations or mathematical symbols if possible). I'm still a bit unsure whether to use the above abbreviations or full names. What do you think?
runways may already be moved to airportLayout. More and more people are currently connecting to this node, following a proposal from NLR, which is still under investigation in a project, but will be discussed/merged next year (better scalability with airspaceLayout, airportOperations, airspaceOperations and more to come). So we would already avoid another change.

Let's discuss again in 2028 ;-)

CarstenChristmann commented 2 months ago

If I have understood correctly, airports will be renamed to airportTypes and airport to airportType in the future? From which CPACS-Version? Your suggestion looks good. Since the abbreviations used for the distances are commonly used in the Aeronautical Information Publication (AIP), I prefer to use them here as well.

MarAlder commented 2 months ago

If I have understood correctly, airports will be renamed to airportTypes and airport to airportType in the future? From which CPACS-Version?

No no, this is just visualization of the corresponding type in XSDDiagram. In the complete schema it will appear like cpacs/aiports/airport/....

Since the abbreviations used for the distances are commonly used in the Aeronautical Information Publication (AIP), I prefer to use them here as well.

Ok, then we will do so. I add the full names to the description field.