Airspace

The only freely available and actively maintained source of airspace data for the UK is provided by the CAA Rory O'Conor who maintains a file of UK airspace data on his website - Thanks Rory!

Rory's data uses the Tim Newport-Peace airspace format. Because I use his airspace data for my Navplot program I've written some Python software scripts to manipulate data in TNP format. And because my wife uses WinPilot I've also extended the scripts to generate Openair format data.

The scripts don't pretend to be a finished "product." But you may find them useful if you can hack Python and want to play with your own airspace data. Note - it isn't possible to do a direct conversion between TNP and Openair because of differences in the two formats (The TNP format is well defined and has a nicely designed grammar - the Openair format isn't and doesn't.) The scripts will almost certainly require tweaking to give the result you want.

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Last update - 14 July 2008

I've made a couple of sample translations of Rory's 2008C data. You can also download the conversion software.

  • uk_2008c.txt - Openair airspace with unlimited height
  • uk_2008c_low.txt - Openair airspace filtered with base level of FL65 or less
  • ukair.zip - Rory O'Conor's original TNP formatted airspace
  • openair.tar - Python scripts for converting TNP to Openair

    • Normal yada-yada applies, only for use as background wallpaper, not for navigation, etc, etc.