Comprehensive list of South African airfields ?

[tthierry]

A recent poll in this forum with a limited number a responses seemed to indicate that several of you think that a website where pilots could give information about their airfields and benefit from information about other airfields provided by other pilots would be useful.
The web site already exists for France and several other european countries.
http://www.eurovfr.com
To enable you to use it, I only need data (and a bit of homework... )
I'll have to create cards for SA airfields. To create a card, I need the name and geographical coordinates of the airfield, and the ICAO code if there is one, or a local code for microlights airfields if there is one. The altitudes of the airfields would be great, although this can be added later by a pilot when the card is already created and is updated.
Could someone send me a comprehensive list (text format) of SA airfields with the geographical coordinates and codes?
Is there in South Africa a microlights sport federation which would have such a list and could give it to me?

Any help both appreciated and wanted.

[RV4ker (RIP)]

I have a text file of all the micro strips in SA, used for pocket FMS. It has only an ID and co-ords. Noting else, but if it will help? Maybe it a start point and folks can then add to it?

[tthierry]

Thanks for your offer. When you say there is only an ID, do you mean the name of the strip or simply a code ICAO-like?
Second question : does it include the ICAO airfields as well?

Thanks again.

[RV4ker (RIP)]

Herewith a small segment..

LAMERC -29.62333 31.10833
LANGEB -32.96888 18.16528
LANSER -25.93721 27.92667

Lamerc is La Mercy which is a soon to be no more and I think is an unlicensed grass strip, while Lanser is FALA (Lanseria) is a largiush international airport.

The list is more of a starting point for pilots to then expand on for the strips near to them. It is not what you are looking for I don't think.

PS
Nice site by the way

[Smiley]

Hellooooee everyone

I know you get a book called: Airfield Directory of South Africa. This book gives you all the relevant information about airfields in SA.

[RV4ker (RIP)]

This may be of more use...

http://www.jankelow.co.za/X_Files%5CX_P ... 301006.pdf

[tthierry]

The link you give gives, I guess, a list of ICAO airfields in SA. But I'm sure that they are a lot of strips which microlights can use apart from these large airports.
The first list you talked about would be what I'm looking for if, beside the code, there was a real name for each platform.
If I can't find anything better, I'll use it for a start, and the name of the strip will have to be added by pilots themselves. It will not be convenient, especially when someone searches a strip whose card has not yet been updated. There will be no name for the strip then.

So : I'm still looking for a list with, for each strip: name, geographical coordinates and, if possible, altitude.

Thanks for your comments about eurovfr, bythe way. i hope you'll soon be able to use it for yourself.

Smiley, the book you're talking about will be difficult to find in France and I'd rather have a electronic list of airfields which I can adapt and insert in my database.

Regards.

[RV4ker (RIP)]

I have most of these on my Garmin 196. If you have easy way for me to drop these into electronic format, I will do it over the weekend... It should include most of what you are looking for. Else try the authors of Smiley's book. They may be wiling to make it available to you. They have a website, but I don't have the details with me?

[Sleeper]

Hi. The list posted by RV4ker was a list I adapted from the electronic data posted by Jan & Elsabe Coetzee.

You can have a look at the original files on:
http://www.misasa.co.za/Documents/17/

Hope this helps. I really thinks that what you are trying to do is a very good idea.

[tthierry]

Highflyer,

Thanks for your help and your encouraging appreciation. I hope you won't be disapointed in the end. :D
Actually, my problem is not adapting the file you're talking about (I could use it and adapt it before I enter it in the database) but adding some data to it. This file would be perfect if it included the real names of the airfields.
That's the information I'm looking for now, if available.

Best regards from the other half of the Earth...