Project name:

aviationtools

Author:

George L. Carlson II
email: carlsongeorge61@yahoo.com Website or GitHub link None at this time

License:

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

Description:

This project is a collection of tools and utilities for aviation enthusiasts, pilots, and professionals.
It currently includes functions to calculate the distance between two points
on the earth's surface given the decimal degree of latitude and longitude for
each point. Included is a function tha calcutaes the distance between two
airports given their ICAO_ID. Additionally the aviation package includes a
function to determine the ICAO_ID by querying an airports database by
CITY by STATE.

Usage:

To use the aviationtools package, pip install aviationtools into your virtual environment, then you can import aviationtools into your Python script and call the available functions.

For example, to calculate the distance between two points, you can use the
point_to_point(lat1, long1, lat2, long2, mode) function where lat and long parameters are in degree decimal format and mode is "NULL".

To calculate the distance between two airports call the airport_to_airport(airport1, airport2)
function where airport1 and airport2 are the ICAO_ID of the airports. Example
KBUF and KTPA if you are flying from Buffalo Ny to Tampa Fl.

The distances are calculated using the Haversine Formula.

To determine the ICAO_ID of an airport by city and state, call the
get_icao_code("CITY", "STATE_CODE"). Example get_icao_code("BUFFALO", "NY")
and the function will return all the ICAO codes found in Buffalo NY and the User can then select the airport interested in and use that ICAO code to calculate the distance to another airport. CITY and STATE_CODE are case sensitive and must be entered in capital letters.

Contributing:

Versioning:

Version 0.1.0

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