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Flight Planning
Updated on 22/11/02 |
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What`s this, then?
I have given up on the idea of linking direct to charts (like I tried on the old
site). It`s not good "netiquette", and I don`t like it when peeps link direct
to zip files and other stuff on this site, so I`ll try to
practise what I preach!
Therefore, I`m going to list the links to sites which offer all the
goodies you might want to check out before setting off on a UKD
flight, either online or offline.
There`s a few scripts showing data from the VATSIM and IVAO servers too.
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Official sites for Real-World operations.
Most contain up to date NOTAM and any special procedures for flights in
that area.
This section has sites with free charts |
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UK Aeronautical Information Service, Contains charts for UK airfields, including
SID, STAR, IAP, RAMP, TAXI and they are all free!! There`s not much you can get for free these days, so a big hug to our very own CAA for this site. Gawd bless 'em!
You now need to register to access the charts, maybe a precursor to having to cough up  but for now, make the most of it! |
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Portugal. Free charts for the major airports. Good work by Britain`s oldest allies! |
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Spain. Get the gen before you jet off to the sun! There are charts, but they are always unavailable when I look...
Charts section (in English) is HERE |
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Denmark. This site is far, far easier to navigate after you click on the button marked "ENGLISH".  |
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| www.pakistaniaviation.com |
Interesting site with good info. on the Pakistan Aviation scene. Well, it would be, wouldn`t it? Click on AIP for some Jepp scans. |
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| www.pakaviation.com |
Very smart and useful site with even more Pakistsan related information. Lots of links, charts and flightsim articles. |
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| Leeds/Bradford Int. Airport |
Useful information for LBA pilots and PAX, with charts section HERE. |
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| National Imagery Mapping Agency |
Use your noggin and you can click through to all the charts and NOTAM for most of the planet. For the lost and befuddled, the charts section is close to HERE. |
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No free charts appear to be available at these (tight@sses!) |
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All the bumpf you need to fly to Eire! I think you have to register to get it though... |
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Bah! Typical French, an arty-farty ASP site which looks great but apart from the NOTAM (for up-to-date news on ATC strikes ) only serves as a shopping cart for over-priced charts. |
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Our Belgian chums have links and info. for most of Europe. Some of the links HERE contain charts. |
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| CAA-RS.SI |
No charts, but lots of information on Swedish airports. |
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These contain charts, procedures and other
useful information for online and offline operations.
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| NAVDATA.AT |
Oodles
of information on this site. Got links to more charts than I have, so no
point in me having them... FSNav4 cycles
are here too! |
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Belgium
and Luxembourg information, with loads of charts (including Enroute!). Nice
site. |
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Virtual
ATC ops site for ELLX. Mainly IVAO and the charts links are the ones on
the BELUX site. |
| DUTCH
VACC |
Dutch
VACC site, with huge amounts of charts for Schipol and all the smaller airports
too. |
| FIRWIEN.AT |
Superb
site by the Virtual Vienna FIR. Get yer charts BEFORE you hit the mountains!
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| VACC-SAG.ORG |
Swiss,
Austrian and German VACC site. Lots of useful content, as you would expect!
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Scroll
down a bit to find a great set of charts for Norway. |
| VACC-SWE |
Swedish
VACC site, with charts, routes and procedures all in a great php site! |
| VACC-FIN |
Finnish
VACC site, charts and lots of info. |
| VACC-HUN |
Hungarian
VACC site, getting up to speed and charts already online. |
| VACC-CRO |
Croatian
VACC site, friendly peeps and plenty of charts to get your teeth into. |
| HVACC |
Greek
VACC site, and it`s one of the best. Loads of charts, tons of info. Don`t
download any military information, though...
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| TRVACC.ORG |
Turkish
VACC site, very swish with ASP and stuff. Charts section is HERE.
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| PORTUGAL-VACC |
Portugese
VACC site, enroute, SID, STAR charts and so on with other useful information.
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VATSIM
Canada Toronto FIR. Lots of good stuff. |
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VATSIM
Canada Winnipeg FIR. Same as above. |
| ATLANTA
ARTCC |
Virtual
Atlanta ARTCC. Good site that covers Charlotte and Washington too. |
| BOSTON
ARTCC |
Virtual
Boston ARTCC. Nice site with charts, procedures and plenty of other links. |
| LOS
ANGELES ARTCC |
Virtual
Los Angeles ARTCC. Lots of .gif charts, and a growing route plan database. |
| OAKLAND
ARTCC |
Virtual
Oakland ARTCC. Not checked, but I`d guess it`s full of good stuff. |
| ALASKA
VACC |
Pop-ups
ahoy! at the Alaska VACC site (it`s on Tripod). Under them there are loads
of charts for the chilly-willy state. |
| HNL
ARTCC |
Warm
up after your trip to Alaska by checking this site for VATSIM Hawaii. |
| VATCAR |
VATSIM
Caribbean ATC main site. Plenty of information and lots of links to charts. |
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Virtual
Caribbean ATC site, some useful info. A selection of Caribbean charts for
those CDA jaunts is HERE. |
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Panama.
With charts for the main airports. |
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Those
Argentine chaps use their experience at cramming corned beef into tins to
cram loads of charts onto this site. Can`t make out much of the text though.
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Unless
you are some kind of codebreaker or sumfink, you would be advised to click
on the "English" button. Then you`ll be able
to find lots of useful Korean charts. Good for avoiding missiles... |
| dangerous-airports.com |
Nuff
said. Combine this site with the awful weather site below and have a party!
Check out some of Andrew Herd`s articles on Flightsim.com too. |
Hmmmm. Short on charts but still useful.
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Still
no sign of the "issues" with SAS being sorted, but the Manuals for helping
to decipher the charts are still here. Worth downloading and reading if
you are learning the Art of Chart. |
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Virtual
Ops at VATSIM EGBB. Some procedure and SID/STAR/APP information and links
to the CAA charts. |
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Not
been updated since 1999, but there`s some stuff about NATS tracks and Virtual
Gander Oceanic information. |
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A sort
of resource centre (or center) for charts and information before you fly
on VATSIM. Chart links provided to the "echoplate" site, but that only covers
the USA. |
| FSDISPATCH.COM |
No
charts but does contain a growing collection of flight plans and routings.
I had to use the link to the "old" site, but that could just be me. |
You can use Servinfo to find up to date good/dodgy weather. These
sites have their uses too.
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| AWFULWEATHER.COM |
Woohoo! Looking for a tricky crosswind? Fancy a bit of windshear? Want to land in a blizzard with winds 40kts gusting 75? This would be the place to look, then! |
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| AVIATION DIGITAL DATA SERVICE |
Weather service for North America. Maps and enroute weather reports. |
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Don`t fall over in shock... Here`s the weather thingy I promised. |
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See what you think of this. |
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Sorting out UK Local from GMT, Zulu, UTC, CET, EST and all the daylight saving adjustments
can be tricky. Here`s a way to work it out.
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| TIMEANDDATE.COM |
Find the local times for your UTC/ZULU/GMT departure. |
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The NATS site has now stopped direct links
to their files (no surprise, really).
I`ll put the path to the file when I`ve worked it out, but in the meantime
you`ll have to find it for yourself.
The .pdf is nearly 2Mb, and almost 300 pages, so download first then open
and read. Think about the rain forests before printing it all out... |
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