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Old July 21st 04, 05:33 PM
Todd Neidinger
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Hi All,

As a long time lurker I have learning and gained much from this group,
now hopefully I can contribute some. I have written a tool that you may
find useful. It came about because my wife did not like me asking her
to lookup freq. and airport info while flying together. I'm a newly
minted ppasel and would rather fly than have my head down looking for
information. The tool takes a from and to airport code and will
calculate all airports and navaids along the path of the flight and
print the basic information about them. It takes a 20nm path for
airports and a 50nm path for navaids. They are presented in the order
that they will be encountered. You can give it a try he

http://arion.doit.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/flightplan.cgi
username/password is guest/guest

Questions, comments or suggestion are welcome.

Todd Neidinger

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Old July 21st 04, 06:08 PM
Allen
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"Todd Neidinger" wrote in message
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Hi All,

As a long time lurker I have learning and gained much from this group,
now hopefully I can contribute some. I have written a tool that you may
find useful. It came about because my wife did not like me asking her
to lookup freq. and airport info while flying together. I'm a newly
minted ppasel and would rather fly than have my head down looking for
information. The tool takes a from and to airport code and will
calculate all airports and navaids along the path of the flight and
print the basic information about them. It takes a 20nm path for
airports and a 50nm path for navaids. They are presented in the order
that they will be encountered. You can give it a try he

http://arion.doit.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/flightplan.cgi
username/password is guest/guest

Questions, comments or suggestion are welcome.


Wow! What do you use for a database?

Allen


Todd Neidinger

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Old July 21st 04, 06:30 PM
G.R. Patterson III
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Todd Neidinger wrote:

Questions, comments or suggestion are welcome.


Not bad at all. Because of the need to get around the Washington ADIZ, I would like
to see this accept one optional waypoint, but it's very nice as it is. I can always
break my flight plans into two separate legs (as I do now).

Thanks.

George Patterson
In Idaho, tossing a rattlesnake into a crowded room is felony assault.
In Tennessee, it's evangelism.
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Old July 21st 04, 07:06 PM
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Thanks Todd!

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Old July 22nd 04, 12:58 AM
A Lieberman
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On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 11:33:34 -0500, Todd Neidinger wrote:

http://arion.doit.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/flightplan.cgi
username/password is guest/guest


Awesome job Todd. This one is a keeper!!!

Allen
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Old July 22nd 04, 03:24 AM
Peter Gottlieb
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"Todd Neidinger" wrote in message
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Hi All,


http://arion.doit.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/flightplan.cgi
username/password is guest/guest

Questions, comments or suggestion are welcome.



Nice.

Question/Issue: I put in HPN-UCA and it gave a distance of 168 NM but
Airnav gives a distance of 145.3 NM (the Garmin 530 simulator gives 145
also).


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Old July 22nd 04, 05:24 AM
Scott D.
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Well, I'm impressed. Going on a 700nm cross country Friday morning
and will have to take this print out with me.
Good job.


Scott D.


On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 11:33:34 -0500, Todd Neidinger
wrote:

Hi All,

As a long time lurker I have learning and gained much from this group,
now hopefully I can contribute some. I have written a tool that you may
find useful. It came about because my wife did not like me asking her
to lookup freq. and airport info while flying together. I'm a newly
minted ppasel and would rather fly than have my head down looking for
information. The tool takes a from and to airport code and will
calculate all airports and navaids along the path of the flight and
print the basic information about them. It takes a 20nm path for
airports and a 50nm path for navaids. They are presented in the order
that they will be encountered. You can give it a try he

http://arion.doit.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/flightplan.cgi
username/password is guest/guest

Questions, comments or suggestion are welcome.

Todd Neidinger

remove the no and spam from the return email address.


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Old July 22nd 04, 01:15 PM
OtisWinslow
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Nice program, Todd.


"Todd Neidinger" wrote in message
...
Hi All,

As a long time lurker I have learning and gained much from this group,
now hopefully I can contribute some. I have written a tool that you may
find useful. It came about because my wife did not like me asking her
to lookup freq. and airport info while flying together. I'm a newly
minted ppasel and would rather fly than have my head down looking for
information. The tool takes a from and to airport code and will
calculate all airports and navaids along the path of the flight and
print the basic information about them. It takes a 20nm path for
airports and a 50nm path for navaids. They are presented in the order
that they will be encountered. You can give it a try he

http://arion.doit.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/flightplan.cgi
username/password is guest/guest

Questions, comments or suggestion are welcome.

Todd Neidinger

remove the no and spam from the return email address.



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Old July 22nd 04, 04:29 PM
Katherine
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http://arion.doit.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/flightplan.cgi
username/password is guest/guest


That's awesome!

Here are some suggestions that came to mind:

Can you add the little morse code identifiers for the navaids? After
all, we should all be identifying our navaids, right?

On the front page, you could add a few more user options for what to
show or not show... like a box to check if you want NDB's (if your plane
is so equipped), and a box to check if you want runway lights (if you're
flying at night). Another spacesaver might be: to check whether CTAF
and Unicom are the same frequency, and to list them together as
CTAF/Unicom if they are. Same with CTAF/Runway lights and Tower/Runway
lights, which are often the same.

--Kath

 




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