Links of Interest

FlightGear

http://flightgear.org/Docs/FGShortRef.html

Mapping Services

http://map.f4-group.com/

• interesting combination of 2D and 3D as you zoom in
• http://wiki.map.f4-group.com/wiki/Main_Page

Create 2d maps (and Tiles!) with a simple editor: https://www.mapbox.com/tilemill/

Mapping Blogs

http://blog.thematicmapping.org/

Mapping Code Libraries

http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Marble

VirtualAir, Airspace Visualization (has also a HLA/RTI interface to flightgear): http://virtualair.sourceforge.net/Monitor/airspace.html

About Mapping

Some interesting data/comparison 2d/3d from Dykes (ok, it is old, but still valuable I guess): http://books.google.ch/books?id=gUza-nsEwioC&pg=PA380&lpg=PA380&dq=3d+maps+for+pilots&source=bl&ots=KL9I9RRfR7&sig=u08yNo7003H2cO16Vy_MiSgsNx4&hl=en&sa=X&ei=qbKnUqe-KeOS0AW8uoGoBQ&ved=0CFkQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=3d%20maps%20for%20pilots&f=false

FlightGear Tracking

http://mpserver15.flightgear.org/modules/fgtracker/

Various Airport Data Sources

http://fr.flightaware.com
Example: http://fr.flightaware.com/resources/airport/SFO/IAP/RNAV+(GPS)+Z+RWY+28R/pdf

http://data.x-plane.com/get_data.html

http://www.ourairports.com/data/

http://www.openflights.org/data.html

http://sourceforge.net/p/openflights/code/748/tree/openflights/data/

• As of January 2012, the OpenFlights Airports Database contains 6977 airports spanning the globe

Aircraft Details

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_flight_display