Flight Planner

This form allows you to determine the distance between any two airstrips in the database that have coordinates and produces a map of the flight route. Just enter the airport identifiers in the two fields below. If you specify your airspeed, it will also calculate flight times. The map will include airstrips that are close to the route in fairly evenly spaced segments. If you specify the endurance (time that the airplane can fly with a load of fuel) in addition to airspeed, the system with calculate the enroute airstrips so that you can reach every airstrip within the endurance time (no allowance for fuel reserve or headwinds is made). You can select to have only airstrips along the route that have METAR and/or TAF information available. Clicking on an enroute airstrip will return the information for that airstrip.

The input fields are NOT case sensitive, so you can enter upper or lower case letters.

Enroute airstrips need to be separated by semicolons. If you want to use a VOR or NDB as an enroute waypoint, append "-vor" or "-ndb" to the identifier (eg ymay-vor or ymay-ndb for Albury). You can also specify coordinates for a waypoint. They need to be specified as lat,long, where lat and long are the latitude and longitude in decimal degrees, with latitude being south (negative) and longitude being east, and lat and long separated by a comma, no spaces.

Identifier for Starting Airport:
Identifier for Destination Airport:
Optional Identifiers for Enroute Airports:		(semicolon separated, not for track plot)
Enroute Airspeed:		(optional in knots, for flight time calculations)
Endurance:		(optional, in decimal hours (eg 3.5), for segment length calculations)

Show area map of flight route
       Include colour-coded elevation contours flight route
       Include airspace boundaries (if map scale is large enough)
       Include roads (if map scale is large enough)
       Include VORs (if map scale is large enough)
Show elevation profile of flight route
Plot track, track width: nm (max. 100nm)
Show only airports with METAR weather reporting along track
Show only airports with TAF weather reporting along track

This is a window into the "Flying Around" tool located on the Australian Air Services site.

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