IGN 1/500000 map for France

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IGN 1/500000 map for France

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Xavier	Xavier posted 1/2/2022 10:20:31 AM HOT Topic Details Share Topic
Group: Forum Members Posts: 28, Visits: 85	I'm a PPL instructor in France. A French regulation makes it mandatory to overfly cities and towns at a minimum height depending on the size of the town. The official regulation (arreté de 1957) says that the size of the town are shown on the IGN (Institut Geographique National) 1/500000 map. So I must in practice teach navigation with that IGN map as it is the only source of information available. As it is not available in Skydemon I just cannot recommend Skydemon to my students, and they go for SDVFR or Flymate instead. It's a shame as Skydemon is I think the best VFR navigation app. Once they get used to another app, they won't change.
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BJS	B BJS posted 1/15/2022 10:40:46 AM Post Details Share Post
B Group: Forum Members Posts: 47, Visits: 149	+x grahamb - 1/14/2022 8:58:04 PM It’s not quite as simple as that, as the overflight minimum for the some installations and towns varies according to aircraft type. Which to my knowledge is correct, but given the way Skydemon is built today, may mean a huge change effort for the software as it would make the chart depiction dependent on the aircraft profile chosen. I somehow doubt that is easily done.
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IGN 1/500000 map for France

C82R - 1/2/2022 10:20:31 AM

Hi C82R, I was just curious, because I could not believe, that one has...

Gerhard66 - 1/2/2022 2:56:05 PM

It's the map I was talking about. The 1/500000 IGN ICAO Map. It is...

C82R - 1/2/2022 8:45:14 PM

One might want to add that you need to enter"Carte OACI VFR" in the...

Daniel_KDF - 1/5/2022 11:23:39 AM

It sounds like you're saying that France has published a certain class...

Tim Dawson - 1/5/2022 10:58:11 AM

Question for you Tim. Skydemon depicts cities as area and towns with...

KimW - 1/5/2022 3:28:28 PM

This would be a useful chart to have available. Or, somehow, for SD to...

tnowak - 1/5/2022 12:46:27 PM

I always carry a paper IGN chart with me when flying in France for the...

tnowak - 1/6/2022 9:44:38 AM

It looks like it's done on "mean width" of the town, goodness knows...

Tim Dawson - 1/6/2022 10:29:26 AM

As C82R mentioned („You can freely access to the map through...

Gerhard66 - 1/9/2022 7:42:35 PM

As other competitors already offer that, the data must be available in...

BJS - 1/12/2022 11:36:25 AM

So anyway you now know why French PPL students are not encouraged to...

C82R - 1/9/2022 7:23:05 PM

Do they? Or do they just offer that IGN static chart as a map...

Tim Dawson - 1/13/2022 9:48:01 AM

The data, for personal use can be downloaded here (after having...

pgroell - 1/13/2022 10:33:03 AM

I wonder how many towns there are that are categorised that way. We...

Tim Dawson - 1/14/2022 10:11:04 AM

AFAIK all towns in France are categorised on the IGN charts: yellow...

BJS - 1/14/2022 4:01:22 PM

You could display the vertical limits in virtual radar without...

Gerhard66 - 1/14/2022 5:46:47 PM

It’s not quite as simple as that, as the overflight minimum for the...

grahamb - 1/14/2022 8:58:04 PM

Which to my knowledge is correct, but given the way Skydemon is built...

BJS - 1/15/2022 10:40:46 AM

If this IGN chart colour codes the towns, how can that take into...

Tim Dawson - 1/17/2022 9:12:16 AM

As I understood, the town type is independent of aircraft type. Only...

Gerhard66 - 1/17/2022 9:17:40 AM

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