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Great site!
It would be nice if it can be used with Microsoft flight simulators.
I love this site though.
Use the site all the time to check WX for training areas and also plan intersections around airports etc. So easy and nice. Thank you ... you are doing everyone a great service.
This is a wonderful site. Thank you. This is what charts should be. Talk about a planning tool. A thinking tool. The video is excellent too. You have saved me TONS of time, which is a lot considering how time flies...
This is great. Can you print these charts for use in the aircraft? Thanks
I presume that the dot colors on weather stations designate VFR, MVFR, IFR, LIFR, etc. conditions. A legend would be nice to see on map page, because there seem to be more than the four I mention.
Thanks for great site!
Dave, you are my hero!
Thanks for all of the excellent work. This is better than a lot of the pay planning software I have seen, and it keeps getting better!
This site is absolutely awsome! Love it... I was wondering if I could use the information here for a bonafide flight plan and nav log or if it is just for reference and to get a general idea of what's up? I see that the PDF's have the currencies and so forth, so I don't understand why it states that it is not for flight planning or pre flight planning?
Thank you!
Rudy
This website is great!! Thank you for helping me with school! I had to make a flight plan and this worked beautifully!
What's the point in all of this great software and planning if you cannot print out or save a planned route? Seriously? Very frustrated right now that I log on to find that the 3hours I spent making a flight plan is now gone!!!!!!
Eric,
I'm very sorry to hear this. I had no idea that a flight plan designed here could get so complicated.
We are planning on allowing for saving flight plans, but do not currently support that.
In the mean time, we just made a change to the cookie expiration. Instead of expiring at the end of your browser session, it should be remembered by your browser. If you received your session cookie before this recent change, it will still expire when you close your browser. Subsequently assigned cookies are set with an expiration date well in the future.
Another possibility I can offer you, is using the link generator tool. When you generate a plain text link, it contains your flight plan. You could save that link in a bookmark and recall it later. I suspect, however, that a very complicated flight plan would result in a too-long URL, so I'm not sure this would have helped in your situation.
We value your feedback and hope you'll continue to find SkyVector a useful and fun site.
-Dave
Just a correction - you don't need clearance to pass through Class D airspace. You only need to establish two-way radio communication with ATC.
Glad to see you use Mac.
Awesome product! Keep up the good work. I would also like to see a way to enter Victor routes and Jet routes in your flight plan.
New to site. New to flying. Really helpful.
Thanks
Works better than some of the FS programs as well. Now if you could link it to google maps, that would be cool. Maybe Google will buy you out?
The video keeps stopping at 2:10 mintues. I'm not sure why though...
How can I type the IFR clearance? I cant find the way to add the vectors(V123) in the flight plan box.
Hi Dave,
Many improvements that are a step up. Thanks!! One thing that disappeared that was used by I'm sure many as well as by me; We used to be able to type in "Oakland" and get all airports with the word Oakland in them and then select the one we wanted. Can we get that functionality back?
Rich
Just wanted to say that I have been using this website ever since it went online and whether it be the old version or the new and improved version, I find it awesome, and always telling everyone to start their flight planning here. Every time a trip comes-up whether it's gonna be VFR or IFR, this is my go-to place to plot it out, then whip-out the old calculator for fuel and times. Just the fact that you can zoom in and out on the maps is a great feature, and so uncomplicated to use. If you use it together with airnav for fuel prices, it makes planning your fuel stops a breeze! Thank you for making all this information available at the click of a mouse. Very cool.
Let me just say that this site is wonderful. It is almost as good as having an Electronic Jeppesen in your back pocket. As a pilot since 1968, I am quite impressed.
Thank you for this great tool and archive.
Great work Dave! I really like the easy way to get WX at several locations quickly. I had been hoping to fly to Hillsboro, OR (KHIO), VFR, today but your WX info. seemed to say that it would be IFR or marginal all day. While looking at your WX info., I twice called the briefer for an outlook. He told me exactly what I was looking at on your chart!
Questions:
Can/how can I insert a waypoint into an existing plan?
Can I set different speeds for different legs? I would like to set a first leg, climbout, at the POH-stated normal climb speed, out to the distance stated where I get to my cruise speed.
Thanks,
Mike White
Kennewick, WA
Mike,
There are a couple ways to insert a waypoint.
You can add it to the end by right-clicking on it or typing it in the "Add" box. Then you can drag to reorder it in the flight plan panel. Grab the icon and drag it up or down.
The second way is to drag the line segment and drop it on your desired waypoint. You'll get a little dialog asking you to clarify what you dropped it on, with the last option always being 'GPS'. Hit the "Plan" button next to the object you choose, and that will be inserted into the flight plan. See the video for an example of this in action.
Currently, you can have only one speed for the whole plan. We are working on improving this.
Wonderful upgrades to SkyVector! It has been a mainstay for my flight planning for a long time now and will certainly remain that way it seems.
By the way... what application did you use to do you excellent screen capture work?
Gary
Don't forget Firefox. It has been around for quite some time now and is a very fast and expandable browser that is open-source and cross-platform.
Features don't work in Firefox? You've got to be kidding?
I think "Don't forget about Firefox" meant "don't forget to encourage Firefox as an excellent alternative to MSIE." I use Firefox as my primary browser, then test in all others. Firefox is the best browser for me.
For some reason, IE6 holdouts tend to be corporate types who have a strange allergy to "free" software, as if it implies it's not worth much. These same IT departments don't blink an eye at Acrobat, Flash, or Silverlight Plugins but go crazy at the idea of an open-source browser alongside IE6. Chrome, backed by Google, may have more of a fighting chance on these desktops.
These are the browsers SkyVector is tested to work on:
MSIE 6*,7,8
Firefox 3+
Seamonkey
Safari
Chrome
Opera**
*IE6 has some real performance issues, but is functional. IE6 users cannot view the map in full-width.
**Opera has right-click issues. Opera users need to specifically enable "contextmenu events" in their Javascript preferences, but even then the regular context menu still appears, you have to click away to make it go away and see the flight planning menu behind it.
Control-click works as a right click (in all browsers), but that also has a default Opera menu that I cannot disable.
How do i get the map to be totally across the browser like in the video? I have ads on the right hand side.
I tried creating an account and that didn't change anything. Is there some trick?
The extra ads on the right hand side are there for IE6 users only.
Think of the extra ads as a "Tax" for using IE6. It takes lots of time and effort to make SkyVector work in an 8 year old browser. We don't mind doing it, but we will tax you for it.
Can't upgrade your browser? I would suggest installing Chrome. It's a fast lightweight browser that will install alongside IE6. You can leave IE6 as your default browser and use it for all the activeX sites that require it. Then you can use Chrome for everything else.
Can't even do that? Try Chrome Frame. It's like a flash plugin for IE, which can be enabled only by websites specifically supporting it. IE6 will be unchanged for all websites, except for SkyVector, which will specifically enable the replacement rendering engine.
Dave,
Great site. For some reason I am getting the ads in Internet Explorer 7. After reading the post on IE6 I figured that I would let you know that some IE7 browsers are showing the ads as well. I guess we can think about it as a tax on using Microsoft products. jk.
Chrome has an extension for added convince to view a page in IE if it requires it.
"Think of the extra ads as a "Tax" for using IE6."
Too bad we can't tax them in real life for using IE6 ;)
Wonderful site Dave. With Orbx FTX about to make it's entry for the PNW this is going to be really handy.
Regards,
Jim.
I have a fast MacBook and fast Internet connection, but the video is terribly slow. It took me 10 minutes to watch the first 45 seconds....
What's the problem?
Is there a way to enter into the flight plan a radial and dme? I haven't been able to figure it out.