IGN 1/500000 map for France

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IGN 1/500000 map for France

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Xavier	Xavier posted 1/2/2022 10:20:31 AM HOT Topic Details Share Topic
Group: Forum Members Posts: 26, Visits: 83	I'm a PPL instructor in France. A French regulation makes it mandatory to overfly cities and towns at a minimum height depending on the size of the town. The official regulation (arreté de 1957) says that the size of the town are shown on the IGN (Institut Geographique National) 1/500000 map. So I must in practice teach navigation with that IGN map as it is the only source of information available. As it is not available in Skydemon I just cannot recommend Skydemon to my students, and they go for SDVFR or Flymate instead. It's a shame as Skydemon is I think the best VFR navigation app. Once they get used to another app, they won't change.
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IGN 1/500000 map for France

C82R - 1/2/2022 10:20:31 AM

Hi C82R, I was just curious, because I could not believe, that one has...

Gerhard66 - 1/2/2022 2:56:05 PM

It's the map I was talking about. The 1/500000 IGN ICAO Map. It is...

C82R - 1/2/2022 8:45:14 PM

One might want to add that you need to enter"Carte OACI VFR" in the...

Daniel_KDF - 1/5/2022 11:23:39 AM

It sounds like you're saying that France has published a certain class...

Tim Dawson - 1/5/2022 10:58:11 AM

Question for you Tim. Skydemon depicts cities as area and towns with...

KimW - 1/5/2022 3:28:28 PM

This would be a useful chart to have available. Or, somehow, for SD to...

tnowak - 1/5/2022 12:46:27 PM

I always carry a paper IGN chart with me when flying in France for the...

tnowak - 1/6/2022 9:44:38 AM

It looks like it's done on "mean width" of the town, goodness knows...

Tim Dawson - 1/6/2022 10:29:26 AM

As C82R mentioned („You can freely access to the map through...

Gerhard66 - 1/9/2022 7:42:35 PM

As other competitors already offer that, the data must be available in...

BJS - 1/12/2022 11:36:25 AM

So anyway you now know why French PPL students are not encouraged to...

C82R - 1/9/2022 7:23:05 PM

Do they? Or do they just offer that IGN static chart as a map...

Tim Dawson - 1/13/2022 9:48:01 AM

The data, for personal use can be downloaded here (after having...

pgroell - 1/13/2022 10:33:03 AM

I wonder how many towns there are that are categorised that way. We...

Tim Dawson - 1/14/2022 10:11:04 AM

AFAIK all towns in France are categorised on the IGN charts: yellow...

BJS - 1/14/2022 4:01:22 PM

You could display the vertical limits in virtual radar without...

Gerhard66 - 1/14/2022 5:46:47 PM

It’s not quite as simple as that, as the overflight minimum for the...

grahamb - 1/14/2022 8:58:04 PM

Which to my knowledge is correct, but given the way Skydemon is built...

BJS - 1/15/2022 10:40:46 AM

If this IGN chart colour codes the towns, how can that take into...

Tim Dawson - 1/17/2022 9:12:16 AM

As I understood, the town type is independent of aircraft type. Only...

Gerhard66 - 1/17/2022 9:17:40 AM

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