The code linked above is provided subject to the limited License to Code contained in the Competition Rules. See the included license.txt for more information.
Simulator Files
Files used and needed by the Flight Simulator can be found on the
[Flight Quest Data wiki](https://www.gequest.com/wiki/FlightQuest2)
.
Data Files
Flight Quest Phase 2 data is temporally split into 4 datasets that will be released over the course of the competition. Flight data in each dataset is for the following time periods:
Initial Training Set:
June 7 - July 4, 2013, 4 weeks
Augmented Training Set 1:
Aug 14 - Sept 10, 2013, 4 weeks
Augmented Training Set 2:
Nov 14-Dec 11, 2013, 4 weeks
Final Evaluation Set:
Jan 19, 2013 - Feb 1, 2014, 2 weeks
The leaderboard will be based on data from the following time periods:
Milestone Leaderboard:
July 5-18, 2013 (2 weeks). This leaderboard runs from the competition's launch to the Milestone Entry deadline on September 25.
Agent Training Leaderboard:
September 11-24 (2 weeks). This leaderboard runs from the beginning of October to the Model (Agent) Submission deadline on January 18.
Guide To Files
Naming convention: Revised files will have "RevX" in the name where X represents the revision number. Previous versions of the file will be removed.
FlightStatsDataDictionary: Data dictionary provided by FlightStats on the FlightStats data (flighthistory, ASDI, METAR, TAF, SIGMET, etc)
airports.csv: List of the 64 airports used in FQ2, with locations (latitude, longitude, and altitude)
testFlights: List of flights that participants will provide routes for
sampleSubmission: An example submission
FlightQuest2DataRelease1_AggregateTrain: compressed file containing training data. Aggregate means both flight and weather data are included
FlightQuest2DataRelease2_AggregateTestFeatures: compressed file containing features for the test set period. Aggregate means that both flight and weather data are included
TestWeatherData-Partial: 0th hour of wind data for each test day (relative to the cutoff time)
OneDaySimulatorFiles: all the Simulator files necessary to run the Simulator on one day's worth of data
test1_flighthistory_rev1: revised version of file flighthistory.csv. See this
[forum thread](https://www.gequest.com/c/flight2/forums/t/5777/what-s-the-deal-with-flight-303137309/31119#post31119)
for an explanation of the revision.
For a fuller description of the data in AggregateTrain and AggregateTestFeatures, visit the
[Flight Stats Data page](https://www.gequest.com/c/flight2-main/details/flight-stats)
.
Visit the
[Timeline](../../c/flight2/details/timeline)
to learn about when data will be released.
Datasets listed here are provided, in part, by
[Flight Stats, Inc](http://www.flightstats.com/go/Home/home.do)
.
Please see the
[Flight Stats Data wiki](../../wiki/FlightQuest2)
page for another source of approved weather data.