{"id":202,"date":"2013-08-22T12:57:52","date_gmt":"2013-08-22T00:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.herbert.org.nz\/?p=202"},"modified":"2014-01-14T08:22:05","modified_gmt":"2014-01-13T20:22:05","slug":"syncing-the-nz-aip-into-air-nav-pro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.herbert.org.nz\/?p=202","title":{"rendered":"Syncing the NZ AIP into Air Nav Pro"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I wanted to be lazy and not worry about manually updating the aerodrome charts in Air Nav Pro<\/a>.
\nSince there doesn’t seem to be an API in the NZAIP (www.aip.net.nz) I hacked together a python script to scrape the data and download all the plates. I’ve excluded downloading any IFR plates (using a crude word filter) since I’m only interested in VFR. If you want the IFR plates as well, just make the IFR_Keywords list an empty list in getaip.py:
\nIFR_Keywords = []<\/code><\/p>\n

I’m running OS X 10.8 so if you want to run these scripts on windows you’ll need to install python at the very least and also rsync.<\/p>\n

First I create a list of aerodrome objects and attach a list of assets to each aerodrome object. Each asset is essentially a linked pdf from the AIP web site. Then I create my required directory structure – directory name is the aerodrome ICAO code (for Air Nav Pro) and change the pdf file name to match the required naming convention (must start with ICAO code of aerodrome).
\nI essentially download all plates every time, since I don’t know which ones have changed. <\/p>\n

The two python files need to be in the same directory. You can download all the plates just by running `python getaip.py`
\nThis will create a directory named ‘aip’ in the same directory as the getaip.py script.<\/p>\n

You need to mount the web dav server from Air Nav Pro.<\/p>\n

Once this is done, then I just use rsync (with the –checksum and –delete) flags to update the plates – the script outputs a sample rsync command. Simple!! <\/p>\n

Download the Python Files<\/a> (Updated to support the Disclaimer page)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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