So who is the widow going to sue when the information is wrong, and the pilot is decapitated when fiddling with his PDA on approach into a ‘wire free’ field?

 


 

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Wayne,

Good Idea!
Each jurisdiction would (ahem - should) keep a spatial database (one that has a map integrated into it) of the location of each line, typically, in a format compatible with Mapinfo or ArcGIS.
Can't see any reason why this information wouldn't be available to the public...

Keeping this information up to date in a central repository available to pilots might be something that the GFA "IT people" could take care of.
Or, in keeping with the trend in the Spatial IT and Cartographic industry sectors, the information could be made available through what's known as WMS or WFS servers, converted to a Winpilot type format by someone in the know (at GFA? RAA? CASA? or all of the above...) and then used by pilots...

...Just got the replies by Scott and Derek, sorry, SWER wires are private? Huh?
By that, do you mean that they are run by the local councils or the elec. supply company?
Any electricity Supplier will still have this information in spatial format, which is interrigatable by us, most local councils have some kind of cartographic and planning division also...

Just a case of asking I think.

Ronald Marks.
(Spatial) Database Support Officer.



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Hi guys, we all know the dangers of the evil SWER type powerlines across
our wide brown land. As an idea for discussion, Is there a database
available on these lines and if so, could it be fed through into Seeyou
or Winpilot to warn when looking for outlanding sites?
If there is not a database, perhaps we need to lobby for one?

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