IRIG 106 - idmpins

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Idmpins is a utility for reading and dumping recorded INS data from F-15, F-16, C-130, and A-10 EGI aircraft in a humanly (and Microsoft Excel) readable form. It's useful for quickly viewing aircraft position and attitude from a flight. INS data is output in latitude, longitude, and other engineer units. It is in a form that is easily importable into Microsoft Excel. Below is a sample output:

Input Data file 'F16.ch10'
Chan 6  RT 4  TR 1  SA 16  INS Position/Attitude

               Raw INS    Raw INS    INS                                                       
              Longitude  Latitude   Data     INS      True     Roll     Pitch           Ground 
    Time      (+ East)   (+ North)  Valid  Altitude  Heading  (+ Right) (+ Up  )        Speed  
   (UTC)      (- West)   (- South)          (MSL)             (- Left ) (- Down)   G's   (kts) 
21:24:00.091  -86.747795  30.511623   1     9268      68.2   -12.975    10.091    1.013  312.4 
21:24:00.291  -86.747485  30.511732   1     9276      66.7   -27.044     9.778    0.934  312.1 
21:24:00.491  -86.747175  30.511843   1     9284      64.9   -41.557     9.113    0.937  312.0 
21:24:00.691  -86.746867  30.511955   1     9288      63.0   -54.296     8.537    1.106  311.7 
21:24:00.891  -86.746561  30.512071   1     9296      60.7   -65.112     8.218    1.266  311.5 
21:24:01.091  -86.746257  30.512190   1     9300      58.1   -72.567     8.026    1.458  311.3 
21:24:01.291  -86.745956  30.512314   1     9304      55.3   -76.731     7.779    1.702  311.0 
21:24:01.491  -86.745658  30.512443   1     9308      52.6   -78.533     7.361    1.934  310.6 
21:24:01.691  -86.745364  30.512578   1     9312      49.8   -79.005     6.790    2.140  309.9 
21:24:01.891  -86.745075  30.512719   1     9316      47.1   -79.346     6.076    2.294  309.2 
21:24:02.090  -86.744791  30.512867   1     9320      44.5   -80.395     5.208    2.452  308.5 
21:24:02.291  -86.744513  30.513021   1     9320      41.8   -82.208     4.180    2.589  307.5 
21:24:02.491  -86.744242  30.513183   1     9320      38.9   -84.202     3.098    2.747  306.6 
21:24:02.690  -86.743978  30.513351   1     9320      35.8   -85.690     2.076    2.818  305.4 
21:24:02.890  -86.743723  30.513528   1     9320      32.9   -86.641     1.132    2.923  304.0 
21:24:03.090  -86.743476  30.513711   1     9320      30.0   -87.300     0.225    3.014  302.6 
21:24:03.291  -86.743239  30.513902   1     9316      27.3   -87.657    -0.676    3.092  301.1 
21:24:03.490  -86.743011  30.514099   1     9312      24.7   -87.783    -1.533    3.090  299.5 
21:24:03.690  -86.742794  30.514303   1     9308      22.2   -87.723    -2.280    3.087  297.8 
21:24:03.891  -86.742586  30.514512   1     9304      19.8   -87.234    -2.950    3.089  296.2 
21:24:04.090  -86.742390  30.514727   1     9296      17.5   -86.635    -3.505    3.011  294.5 
21:24:04.290  -86.742204  30.514947   1     9288      15.2   -86.037    -3.972    3.023  293.0 
21:24:04.491  -86.742030  30.515172   1     9276      13.1   -85.229    -4.395    2.942  291.3 
21:24:04.691  -86.741865  30.515401   1     9268      10.9   -84.312    -4.724    2.908  289.8 
21:24:04.891  -86.741713  30.515635   1     9256       8.8   -83.306    -4.939    2.904  288.4 
21:24:05.091  -86.741571  30.515872   1     9244       6.7   -82.164    -5.092    2.845  287.0
It's easy to import this file into Microsoft Excel. Then graphing the latitude and longitude quickly produces to plot of aircraft position.

Usage

On the command line specify channel number, RT address, TR bit, and Subaddress of the INS message. Use the -d flag to reduce the number of dumped INS points. Currently two types of INS messages are supported, the EGI INS unit commonly found on F-16, A-10, and C-130 aircraft, and the F-15 INS message type. Use the -a flag to output additional aircraft attitude data.

The -g flag can be used to specify a reference position on the ground. More than one reference position can be specified by using multiple -g flags. When one or more reference positions are defined, the INS output will also include position and attitude information relative to that point. The -m flag can be used to only dump INS data points when within a prescribed distance from the reference point.

The -T flag can be used to dump a brief TMATS summary of the data file to help in choosing command line parameters.

Usage: idmpins <input file> <output file> [flags]
   <filename>       Input/output file names
   -v               Verbose
   -a               Dump aircraft INS attitude
   -c Bus           IRIG Channel Number
   -r RT            INS RT Address(1-30) (default 6)
   -t T/R           INS T/R Bit (0=R 1=T) (default 1)
   -s SA            INS Message Subaddress (default 16)
   -d Num           Dump 1 in 'Num' messages (default all)
   -i Type          INS Type (default 1)
                      1 = F-16/C-130/A-10 EGI
                      2 = F-15
   -g Lat Lon Elev  Ground target position (ft)
   -m Dist          Only dump within this many nautical miles
                      of ground target position
   -T               Print TMATS summary and exit
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Deprecated: Function strftime() is deprecated in /web/irig106/comments/show.inc on line 89
09/16/2020 07:30 - Ruby Wang (wangjbaozi at 163 dot com)
Could you give me a user id and passworld to download Vendor data file sample.

Deprecated: Function strftime() is deprecated in /web/irig106/comments/show.inc on line 89
01/14/2010 14:54 - Bob Baggerman (bob dot baggerman at gatech dot edu)
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