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4/4/2014 10:25 PM
 

Perhaps it's the only option from the satellite photos, but the real view photo for my home airport (33OK) only shows about half of the runway in the lower left corner of the picture. At least showing the whole airport, if not centered, would be nice, but it's not really necessary since there isn't much to see, and those of us who fly from here know it.

 
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4/5/2014 11:49 PM
 
In my investigation what I found is that RealView images are based on the FAA/NOAA coordinates for the airfield or airstrip, which are sometimes in error. When I found an airstrip incorrect in RealView, I have gone to Skyvector.com, for example, and looked up the airstrip to read the official coordinates from the FAA/NOAA database. Then go to Google maps, or Bing maps, and type in those coordinates. You will see the same map as in RealView. Either the survey was done incorrectly, like way back before precision (GPS) measurements were possible, and has never updated, or a typo was made in posting them. So then, the issue is NOT RealView or iFly, the problem lies in the official coordinates in the FAA/NOAA database being off the mark. FWIW. =====Ralph
 
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4/6/2014 10:07 AM
 

Sure would be nice if there were a mechanism to feed those errors back to FAA/NOAA when we discover them. Somebody, somewhere in those orgs would probably like to know about them and would be interested in correcting them...if we only knew who that somebody was.

 
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4/6/2014 9:28 PM
 

That makes perfect sense. The same error is on Google earth - it shows our airport about a mile NE of us.

 
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4/8/2014 5:11 PM
 

I'd like to get those images corrected regardless of if a government official comes out and surveyes your runway. All we need is some reliable data, and I bet you guys can provide that info for your own runways. So let's do this:

Send an email to info @ adventurepilot.com, provide the airport code, name, runway end points, and runway width. Like this:

Funland Field
XYZ
Runway 17/35
35.12345, -96.12345 / 35.23456, -96,23456
width 50 ft

I will store these emails. When we rebuild the realview images, we will manually add the "surveyed" data to our database. We are considering adding a page to our website so folks can enter this data easier, but that will depend on how many people really want to provide this data.

Thanks!
Walter


Walter Boyd
President, Adventure Pilot
 
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