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vatplanner / dataformats-vatsim-public

library for parsing and processing publicly accessible VATSIM data formats
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flight plans: parse machine-readable remarks #10

Open dneuge opened 3 years ago

dneuge commented 3 years ago

VATSIM has started to encourage users filing flight plans containing machine-readable remarks: https://my.vatsim.net/pilots/flightplan

It might be useful to parse such information if provided.

dneuge commented 3 years ago

Machine readable remarks (ICAO item 18) were previously only provided when generated by flight planning tools (automatically filed or copy-pasted) which made the information potentially more reliable than similar information typed in manually to other fields. Having free-text fields to enter such information on the new prefiling form somewhat reduces the quality of such information.

Support has been considered long ago but implementation had very low priority as VATPlanner itself did so far not intend to retain remarks.

Evaluate quality of information and if any previously available information was replaced by remarks. Then consider value for VATPlanner.