The format is as described in ICAO Doc 8126 section 5.5.2 bullet d):


  In the indication of the geographical coordinates of
  a location:
  - the latitude should be given first;
  - symbols for degrees, minutes or seconds should
    be omitted;
  - two digits should always be used in expressing
    values of less than 10 degrees of latitude; and
  - three digits should always be used in expressing
    values of less than 100 degrees of longitude.
  For example, 050735N 0652542W means five
  degrees, seven minutes and thirty-five seconds
  North, sixty-five degrees, twenty-five minutes and
  forty-two seconds West.

What is typical in AIP pubblications is the additional part of decimal seconds, like 554718.23N.

parse_lon_icao(lon)

Arguments

lon

a string representation for longitude, i.e. 0114901W or 0114901.23W

Value

decimal degress value

Details

This format is used in AIP pubblications, for examples for runway threshold coordinates, stand positions, etc. This is used also in ALL_FT+ files from NM.

See also

Other coordinates: ddm2dd(), dms2dd(), parse_lat_icao()

Examples

parse_lon_icao("0114901W")
#> [1] -11.81694