Biographies

This page shows books we have helped publish in the biography genre.

Books - Non Fiction ...

	PlanePlotter Users Guide for the Aviation Enthusiast by Lionel K Anderson MSc. ISBN 978-1-4461-3063-6 PlanePlotter is a unique piece of software that enables a user to have a live radar type display of aircraft flying overhead in their local area or other regions and also around the world. The software decodes radio signals, received using a special radio receiver or scanner.Using PlanePlotter, you can see a radar-like display of all those aircraft around you that are transmitting the appropriate digital messages including ACARS, ADS-B and HFDL. PlanePlotter plots aircraft positions, altitudes and times decoded from the message traffic that it receives. These include embedded position reports, AMDAR reports and ADS reports contained in ACARS messages, ADS-B position reports received by the Kinetic SBS1(tm) or AirNav System RadarBox(tm) Mode-S receivers, and position reports on HF using Charles Brain's PC-HFDL software. The plot can be superimposed on a suitable aeronatical chart that you have prepared, or PlanePlotter can download satellite imagery and plot the aircraft symbols on that. Where altitude information is available (eg Mode-S messages), you can select the data by altitude band to distinguish low level and high level traffic.
	ACARS - A Users Guide for the Aviation Enthusiast by Lionel K Anderson MSc. ISBN 978-1-4457-8847-0 This book has been written to help the aviation enthusiast gain a good understanding of the ACARS (Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System). The book continues many helpful ICAO & IATA code tables.
	ShipPlotter - An illustrated user guide by Lionel K Anderson MSc. ShipPlotter is a unique piece of software that enables a user to have a live radar type display of shipping in their local coastal region or other regions and waterways around the world. The software decodes radio signals, received using a VHF radio receiver or scanner, from ships transmitting digital data using the marine Automatic Identification System (AIS). The book provides an excellent description of the AIS system and messaging. ShipPlotter visually displays the position and identification of each ship either as radar view or on a chart created from a graphic image file, a satellite image download or a downloaded Open Street Map. Whilst mariners, small boat owners and yachtsmen can use the ShipPlotter software this book is written for and intended solely for the hobbyist and ship-spotting enthusiast. Its contents therefore should not be used as any sort of guidance or advice for those who are not firmly fixed to their seats in the comfort of their homes on dry ground! Available either illustrated in full colour or monchrome b/w to reduce the cost. Also available a downloadable EBook to read with Acrobat Reader.
	The Early Days of Digital Computing in the British Army By Ken Anderson MSc ISBN: 978-0955675355 The story of the first British Army battlefield digital computer then called FADAC and later to become known as FACE. A fascinating insight into the development of digiatl computers in the 1960's.