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Swiss Official ICAO Chart Overlay

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By johnichio - 11/14/2022 5:42:28 PM

In Switzerland, ATC and other pilots, strongly prefer to only ever use names of places that are listed on the official ICAO chart.

SkyDemon has a couple of issues:

1) There are places listed in SkyDemon that are not on the ICAO chart.
2) There are places on the ICAO chart _not_ listed on SkyDemon.

The first is a larger problem, since a pilot may be tempted to report their position using a name not listed on the ICAO chart, and the ATC or other pilots in the area would have no idea.

What kinds of workarounds are available to alleviate this issue?
By Tim Dawson - 5/29/2026 9:19:29 AM

No, not at present. You are unlikely to get hold of the data in a form that is useful. As I said, somebody needs to manually identify the towns that have been chosen to be displayed on that chart, and which are used as unofficial VRPs, and make a spreadsheet with them and their coordinates. I imagine there really aren't all that many, maybe 50?