This software was inspired by the discovery that the National
Flight Data Center is now on the World Wide Web, they can be found at
http://www.tgf.tc.faa.gov/nfdc/index.html. The web
site now distributes the database files that were once available only
on magnetic media.
I've been a long time user of Steve Tynor's flight planning software called fplan which was posted to the comp.sources.misc USENET newsgroup. The database files that were available for fplan were aging rapidly, and the need for new database files was clear. The avdbtools package also provides limited support for generating world files for ICAO Map.
The avdbtools software package is Copyright (C) 1998 John C. Peterson,
<jaypee@netcom.com>
This software package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2. A copy is included in this distribution in the file named "LICENSE".
This software package is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License, version 2, for more details.
Release 0.1 is the first public release of avdbtools, so there are no changes to report. The code should be considered reasonably stable, I have done a fair amount of testing myself. (This should not be confused with the claim that there are no bugs!) The low version number is mostly indicative of the absence of desired features. The support for fplan databases is relatively complete, while support for ICAO Map still needs more work before it is complete.