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Old November 19th 05, 05:49 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
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Default New tool to check TFRs

On Sat, 19 Nov 2005 17:11:30 GMT, Larry Dighera
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On Sat, 19 Nov 2005 10:32:09 -0600, Bill wrote in
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feedback is appreciated


Thanks for a useful tool. Well done.

Although the example route:

Enter a route using airport IDs such as "DFW-ATL-BOS"

doesn't show ICAO airport identifiers, the search works fine with
them: KDFW-KATL-KBOS.


We didn't point that out, thanks! We try to figure out whatever
identifier is being used. FAA and ICAO...we stopped short of IATA,
that would just be silly.

Because the IDs are in there you can do some international stuff as
well. Try TKI-AUS-BRO-MMMA-MMTM-MMVR-MMMT-MMCP-MMCZ for a route I
flew a few year back in a Grumman Traveler. It's fun for just a
quick route visualization tool as well. DFW-EGLL is Dallas to London,
England if you want to see a big route.

If you have a hi-res display, you can make the map bigger for more
detail.

Also, the route is on the URL itself, so if you want to link to it
yourself you can. The URL looks like:

http://tfrcheck.com/Default.aspx?tab...&Route=tki-atl

Where tki-atl is the route. If you want to automate links for your
own pages, just replace the route with your own, and the url should
take a user straight to that route.

Glad you like it.

Bill Strahan
www.adventurepilot.com