AviPy

As part of a university course, there were multiple projects that required the use of common aviation related equations. This course came with a restriction: you may not use 3rd party libraries for project related code. To avoid code duplication between projects, I created AviPy: a Python library that simplifies the usage of aviation related calculations for projects in Python.

The library comes with a module that takes care of automatic unit conversion called qty. Too many projects in the past have had major issues due to to incorrect conversion of units, this was the primary reason for the creation of AviPy. Most notably, the incident with Air Canada Flight 143, famously dubbed the Gimli Glider, which ran out of fuel mid-flight due to a conversion error between kilograms and pounds. Such incidents can be avoided using code that makes clear what units are being used, and that simplifies the process of unit conversions. To give an example of the capabilities of AviPy: one can instantiate a distance unit in kilometers (or any other distance unit) by declaring distance = qty.Distance.Km(50), and then express that distance in nautical miles by declaring distance.n_mile, which converts the 50 kilometers to nautical miles. The qty module contains distance, mass, time, velocity, temperature and more.

AviPy also contains many functions that incorporate equations for the calculation of temperature, pressure and density at any altitude in the atmoshere in the atmosphere module. For the calculation of flight distance, both the Haversine and Vincenty formulae have been incorporated into the geo module.