Acknowledgments

It is difficult to know where to begin.   I have had much help from many people both in the information needed to create working airports and with the testing of the program.

 

I must first acknowledge Lee Swordy for the inspiration of AFCAD.   AFCAD has always been the benchmark against which I have measured ADE.  

 

A special thank you to Jim Vile who has been unfailingly patient as I have learned my way through the intricacies of airport design and has always supported and encouraged this development. Thanks to Graham Jackson for his work on parking specs.   Airport Design Editor uses this information to display airline codes and color parking spots dependent on airline.   We all just 'love' writing documentation so I must make a special mention of Bob Keeshan who has taken on the task of writing the tutorials and guides for ADE.   Also many thanks to Martin Gossmann who in addition to being part of the team created the installer that is used from version 1.20.   Thanks to Don Grovestine provided the information to allow ADE to edit apron edge light properties

 

The following people have given much of their time and knowledge to help with the development of what   will never be a complete program.   The more I learn the more I realize there is to learn.

• Tim Arnot

• Martin Couture

• George Davison

• Norman Dean

• Colin Dietrich

• Reggie Fields

• John Glossup

• Dan Hansen

• James Heany

• Derrick Miller

• Peter Poulson

• Graham S

• Ray Smith

• David Strate

 

My thanks to them all for their patience, good humor and invaluable help during the development.

 

Thanks also to

• Winfried Orthmann for permission to distribute his Xml2Shp program with ADE

• Holger Sandmann for permission to use his land class images.

• The Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory   at the University of Maryland     for the   Piccolo Graphics Library    

• The developers and contributors at the Code Project.   This place is a constant source of ideas, code and inspiration for amateur programmers such as myself.