Airport information and flight planner

Post by **Garry Russell** » 30 Apr 2006, 22:32

An interesting little link that gives information and flight plans from the given airport

The link here is for LHR just change EGLL to EGKA for example and it is Shoreham.

MUST BE UPPER CASE

http://www.fallingrain.com/icao/EGLL.html

Only tested on a few UK and nearby French Airports so no idea how far it reaches.

Garry

ianhind · Post by **ianhind** » 30 Apr 2006, 23:38

That site used to be brilliant for FS flight planning - you could put in the ICAO codes for the start and end and it would give the airways routing with all waypoints.

Unfortunately the server crashed and that was that. Looks like this could be the start of a rebuild :dance:

And it was evidently using the tree-based searching algorithms used for a genomic database - that was the commercial side of http://www.fallingrain.com.

Ian

Post by **Garry Russell** » 30 Apr 2006, 23:39

Hi Ian

That would account for it no appearing until now

Worth keeping an eye on and see what happens.

Garry

ianhind · Post by **ianhind** » 01 May 2006, 00:48

Garry,

Just for interest, I once asked the original database for a route from somewhere in the Pacific to the UK with a range of about 500 miles (might have been less, can't remember exactly - I've got the route stored somewhere).

It managed to find me a route and must try flying it sometime.

Since the owner of the site has restarted some of the flight planning procedures, I agree, we will have to hope he continues.

Ian

Post by **Garry Russell** » 01 May 2006, 01:20

I was just looking at it agian Ian

Even as it stands its a nice little display of the airport nearest field and waypoints.

The maps are clear and the airport information is there all on the one page.

So already it has its uses.

I must look at some plans I asked FS for EMA to JFK and it took me up over Canada and down over Chicargo to new York.

It's got to be better than that.

Garry

DanKH · Post by **DanKH** » 01 May 2006, 09:07

You might add this little link to your collections as well, also a very good flight planning utility...

http://rfinder.asalink.net/free/

Sorry if this is old news...

britishtourer · Post by **britishtourer** » 01 May 2006, 09:22

Thanks! Those will prove to be useful when I'm flying with real world weather.

PeteP · Post by **PeteP** » 01 May 2006, 10:22

DanKH wrote:You might add this little link to your collections as well, also a very good flight planning utility...

Yes, I too find this site useful, Dan. Unfortunately, for the UK - can't speak for elsewhere - some of the routes it produces are not correct in r/w terms and it makes some very basic flight planning errors. However, if r/w accuracy is not a requirement, it is very simple to use and free!
PeteP

britishtourer · Post by **britishtourer** » 01 May 2006, 10:26

Is there not a weather planning page on the met office site?

DanKH · Post by **DanKH** » 01 May 2006, 10:28

I didn't realize that you were able to plan the weather??? :think: