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Runway instrument approach aids info #166

Closed Pops-67 closed 2 years ago

Pops-67 commented 2 years ago

Runway instrument approach aids should have the same info fields as other instruments aids:

Pops-67 commented 2 years ago

Type, ID, HR, location, elev and rmk

reskume commented 2 years ago

It may be beneficial to have all metadata about the available components, see #166 #164 #163 for references, though openaip is mainly geared towards VFR. But this would require lots of effort in refactoring as those new navaid types have to be added. In addition to that, the airport model has to be updated to use references on already existing navaids instead of using an embedded document that is implicitly created when the airport runway page is edited.

Steps for complete implementation:

reskume commented 2 years ago

Runway instrument landing aids now have more additional fields and added types. Since added location/elevation for each aid would require lots of new code with very litte added benefit for "real flying" I would postpone adding location/elevation until really required.