Spine
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About Spine
Spine stands for "Soaring Pilot's Intelligent NOTAMs Editor". While, as its name suggests, Spine is mainly aimed at glider pilots, it can also be used by private GA pilots. Settings can be changed to filter NOTAMs for Gliding, GA VFR or GA IFR.
NOTAMs are "notices to airmen" published by the National Air Traffic Service and contain such things as warnings to pilots of short-term hazards which could affect air safety.
As downloaded from the internet, NOTAMs contain a lot of information that is not relevant, especially to glider pilots. Neither are they usually sorted into a convenient order.
Spine helps you to edit NOTAMs and discard the irrelevant ones, and also sorts the output into a usable form. You can also restrict the output to a specific area, for example by setting a maximum distance from your home airfield.
Currently, due to the availability of source information, the program can only be used in the United Kingdom.
Spine has been a popular product, available for the PC since 2004 and has now been ported to Android.
NOTAMs are "notices to airmen" published by the National Air Traffic Service and contain such things as warnings to pilots of short-term hazards which could affect air safety.
As downloaded from the internet, NOTAMs contain a lot of information that is not relevant, especially to glider pilots. Neither are they usually sorted into a convenient order.
Spine helps you to edit NOTAMs and discard the irrelevant ones, and also sorts the output into a usable form. You can also restrict the output to a specific area, for example by setting a maximum distance from your home airfield.
Currently, due to the availability of source information, the program can only be used in the United Kingdom.
Spine has been a popular product, available for the PC since 2004 and has now been ported to Android.
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App History & Updates
What's Changed
Changes in V2.2
- Fixes problem when parsing Airspace file. This caused some entries to include part of the following entry, giving an incorrect display when showing the chart. (Equates to PC version V7.2)
Changes in V2.1
- Fixes crash when more than one danger area is referenced in a Notam and not all are in the Airspace file (e.g. offshore areas are excluded).
Complete change information is available on the application's Help screen.
Changes in V2.2
- Fixes problem when parsing Airspace file. This caused some entries to include part of the following entry, giving an incorrect display when showing the chart. (Equates to PC version V7.2)
Changes in V2.1
- Fixes crash when more than one danger area is referenced in a Notam and not all are in the Airspace file (e.g. offshore areas are excluded).
Complete change information is available on the application's Help screen.
Version update Spine was updated to version 2.2
Version update Spine was updated to version 2.1
More downloads Spine reached 500 - 1 000 downloads
What are users saying about Spine
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Gr8 program for the Airfield. :-)
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Great for a quick check first thing.
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Works well on 4" Moto E2 and 10" Lenovo Yoga Pad 3.
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Worked previously?
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Thanks, really useful.
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Notam
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Great for duty instructor to show airspace problems to the lazy pilots who forgot to check. Easy to use. Love desktop version too. Could do with task setting in android version though.
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SPINE, in conjunction with an OTG cable and XCSoar on a Kobo is fantastic. SPINE setup is easy, reliable & fast, every pilot should have it on their phone if you setup the NOTAM file name to default to NOTAM.txt in the root of XCS folder. Then it takes just 30 seconds on the hill or airfield to ensure you have the latest NOTAM airspace, complete with XCS's excellent airspace warning system, right there in your hands. Geoff deserves six stars
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Would like to be able to select non-gliding sites as home airfield e.g. Lydd or Enstone
by U####:
Great app