FAA D-TPP Parser

An easy tool to parse the FAA D-TPP xml into a sqlite database and download the charts PDFs

References

• FAA D-TPP

Installation

To install the package system wide (as root):

pip3 install git+https://github.com/JanC/aeronav-dtpp

For recent pip versions, it is possible (and for development, recommended) to install it to the user's home directory. By default, the binaries are in ~/.local/bin, which should be added to the PATH.

pip3 install --user git+https://github.com/JanC/aeronav-dtpp

Usage

Usage: anm-dtpp [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...

  CLI to download and process the DTPP from FAA. The script reads the latest
  FAA cycle xml and generates a sqlite DB with the PDF chart names.

Options:
  --help  Show this message and exit.

Commands:
  charts  Downloads the FAA d-TPP charts of the specific ICAO airport
  create  Reads the FAA d-TPP xml and creates a sql database from it.
  fetch   Downloads the FAA d-TPP xml.
  

Examples

anm-dtpp fetch
INFO: Downloading https://nfdc.faa.gov/webContent/dtpp/current.xml
INFO: Writing xml to ./output/current.xml
INFO: Done

anm-dtpp create
INFO: Reading output/current.xml
INFO: Parsed 23930 charts in ./output/dtpp.sqlite

anm-dtpp charts --icao KSBP
INFO: Getting charts for SAN LUIS COUNTY RGNL
INFO: MIN: TAKEOFF MINIMUMS
INFO: MIN: ALTERNATE MINIMUMS
INFO: HOT: HOT SPOT
INFO: IAP: ILS RWY 11
INFO: IAP: RNAV (GPS) RWY 11
INFO: IAP: RNAV (GPS) RWY 29
INFO: IAP: LOC RWY 11
INFO: IAP: VOR OR TACAN-A
INFO: APD: AIRPORT DIAGRAM
INFO: DP: AVILA FOUR
INFO: DP: CREPE THREE
INFO: DP: WYNNR THREE

Samples

A sample .xml and .sqlite are located in the samples folder. Those contain only the charts from the KSBP airport.

Development

This section is meant for development tips

Running from command line

python3 -m anm_charts.__main__ fetch
python3 -m anm_charts.__main__ create