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FL51D7
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and therefore the Aux.

I picked this up on a CAP board - CAP appears to be a big user of FalconView and had access to it before it was publicly available.

"http://www.falconview.org/trac/FalconView"

Some cut-n-paste from the web site:

quote:
FalconView is a PC based Mapping Application developed by the Georgia Tech Research Institute for the Department of Defense.

The software is widely used by the US DoD and Allied countries, but historically it has not been available to the general public. Thanks to an initiative by the US Air Force, we have begun releasing a Free and Open Source version of FalconView.


quote:
Overview ¶

FalconView is a Windows mapping system that displays various types of maps and geographically referenced overlays, and is an integral part of the Portable Flight Planning Software (PFPS)


From the overview page:

quote:
FalconView supports a handful of base map types including:

•GeoTIFF
•TIROS TopoBath
•Digital Terrain Elevation Data (DTED) / LIDAR
•Vector Product Format (VPF)
•CADRG
•MrSID


The FAQ page:

"http://www.falconview.org/trac/FalconView/wiki/FrequentlyAskedQuestion"
 
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