Hi Dave
excellent site and now you have conquered the world I can use it in Europe. One question how does one upload airport information or is that something done by your web monkeys. Neither EGFF or EGLL have any data attached to them. Not that its an issue I can get the data I need from NATS but then that another browser open and kind of defeats the object.
Wycliffe
Is there a way to input the flight route so that the magenta line will track along the Victor and Jet airways without having to put in all the intermediate fixes and NAVAID's?
Great site. Use daily to develop En Route procedures for FAA (AJV) at MMAC in OKC.
The print function gives a servor error every time. Can work around...but...the print functionality is sorely missed. It quit working properly last week.
Feature Request - The ability to add a radius circle line
I would like to have the ability to add a radius circle line around an airport or fix. This would help in finding airports to meet FAA training requirement such as a 50nm, 100nm and 250nm radii to determine the choices of airports to meet cross-country requirements.
HELP! I moused over the Charts icon, and clicke on Sectionals. The OUTLINE of all of them appears, but nothing happens when I left or right click on a selected Sectional. What am I missing here????
There are various colored pins on the maps The help video explains that they are located where weather information is available. The color code of the pins is not described. An explaination would help.
I have used SkyVector for several years & find it is the best one for me. Two questions. Is there a way to change the nautical miles to statute miles? Just today I encounted a problem with the site. If I try to use the flt plan option and put in the airport identifiers, I will get the distance & time data, but I can't get the sectionals to come up. It is like when your route goes off a sectional & before you click on the new sectional chart. All I get is the blue background and the weather station symbols. HELP!
Once I have input the desired data for fuel in the vrs blanks, how do I get this to apply? I filled out the vrs requested info, but that box doesn't have a means to input the data.
New to SkyVector: Need to include a circle in Flight Plan
Dave, the site is great and has been useful since I started playing around with it a day or so ago. I was wondering if there was an easy way to put a circular pattern as part of the flight plan. Can you let me know if this is something that can be done? Thanks
But several users have pointed out that the links generated by the "Link" button in the upper-right contain the flight plan. So saving that link is saving the flight plan. You could even have your browser save them for you as bookmarks for easy recall.
-dave
Can you turn on sigmets, airmets, or tfrs and see any of them?
If they are broken too, then there is something wrong with vector drawing in your browser. I recommend the most recent version of Chrome or Firefox.
IE 9 works well unless you have it in "IE8 mode"
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.
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?
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
Anthony O'Brien
Once I have input the desired data for fuel in the vrs blanks, how do I get this to apply? I filled out the vrs requested info, but that box doesn't have a means to input the data.
Dan
Dan
Mike
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