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vfrPlanner online tool

  • 09-09-2012 10:26pm
    #1
    Su Campu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,279 ✭✭✭


    This is a great free tool for planning flights and generating nav logs using Google maps. Right clicking on the map will also allow you to see winds and temperatures aloft for each segment of your flight for up to 30 hours ahead, which you can select and it will automatically do all the calculations for you. Of course never trust this without checking it yourself, but I've yet to find any errors with it!

    http://www.vfrplanner.org/app/nav/vfrplan/index.htm

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Comments

  • #2
    bluecode
    Closed Accounts Posts: 794 ✭✭✭bluecode


    For pilots who don't have GPS. Not many left now.


  • #3
    Su Campu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,279 ✭✭✭Su Campu


    But even pilots with GPS must do preflight planning, no? Or has it come to the stage where people rely solely on GPS and have no backup?


  • #4
    globemaster1986
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 351 ✭✭globemaster1986


    Thanks Su Campu, very good link.

    For anyone who may not have used it before SkyVector have recently launched World Wide Charts (although still Beta).


    http://skyvector.com/


  • #5
    bluecode
    Closed Accounts Posts: 794 ✭✭✭bluecode


    Su Campu wrote: »
    But even pilots with GPS must do preflight planning, no? Or has it come to the stage where people rely solely on GPS and have no backup?
    If you listen to some of the ATC exchanges at weekends. You can often tell who is 'winging it' and whose has worked it out.

    Typical exchange 'Echo India etc, enroute to Sligo at 2000 feet, information only'
    ATC: 'Echo India etc, what's your current position and ETA for Sligo?'

    Big pause 'Um err, standby for that' Now imagine the flurry of papers in the cockpit. Much later. 'Echo India etc, ETA Sligo at 14:25, position 20 miles west of Mullingar.

    ATC: 'Is that local or UTC? It's 1415 UTC now?':D

    A large proportion of weekend pilots seem to be taken by surprise when ATC ask for an ETA. I suspect lack of flight planning is the reason. Ironically many GPS' make it easy to figure it out. But it seems many have forgotten the basics.


  • #6
    rallye150flyer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 132 ✭✭rallye150flyer


    Good find will come in very useful


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  • #7
    pclancy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,941 ✭✭✭pclancy


    Two brilliant websites thanks!

    Skyvector is amazing but I've found a few glitches and missing airports already in my locality :) Epic website though!


  • #8
    globemaster1986
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 351 ✭✭globemaster1986


    pclancy wrote: »
    Two brilliant websites thanks!

    Skyvector is amazing but I've found a few glitches and missing airports already in my locality :) Epic website though!

    Ya SkyVector is great, brilliant for the US has all airport info etc, rest of the world is still Beta mode so there will be some glitches.


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