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Wouldn’t it be nice if you could tell flyagogo.net about your home airport? It would then automatically show the charts, satellite and radar images from your home region whenever you visit the flyagogo.net webpage!

Good news: Now you can do exactly that and more. From now on flyagogo.net features a personalized homepage. Get a free account with flyagogo.net and configure your homeairport plus your favourite map view and save bookmarks to the views that you are using most often.

Want a satellite weather picture of the Bay Area with one mouse click? No problem: Move the view in place the way you like it, then press “add current view” to save a bookmark- voila! Try it yourself. Click on “personalize” at the top of the flyagogo.net webpage and then on “create new account”, follow the instructions and you are ready to go.

As always I hope you find this useful, and if there’s any problem with personalizing your homepage - don’t hesitate to drop me a line at info@flyagogo.net!

The post’s title says it all: If you have never heard of the Google Earth application - this is the time to get started with it. Google Earth displays high resolution satellite pictures on a three dimensional earth. It is an excellent flight planning tool. Take a virtual flight over the Grand Canyon or fly over a mountain airport to get a feeling for the terrain before actually going there. Enough said, if you want to know more download the free application from earth.google.com and start playing with it.

And why am I telling you all of this: Flyagogo.net now provides Google Earth Links for all airports. Look for the image next to the airport name and click it for a virtual flight to that airport. These links will only work if google Earth has been installed on your computer.

Note for MacOSX/Safari users: The Safari browser does not automatically start Google Earth when clicking a Google Earth Link. This is good for security reasons, but it makes life just a bit harder since you have to download a Google Earth Link first and then open it with the Google Earth application. Fortunately there is an easy workaround. Download this file

com.apple.DownloadAssessment.plist

and safe it under that name in your home>library>preferences folder. Also make sure that you have Open safe files after downloading checked in Safari’s preferences.

Since today flyagogo.net features access to current FAA Terminal Area Charts. Go to your favorite airport (type the identifier in the search box - for example KSFO - and press ENTER) and then switch to the terminal area chart by clicking on the “terminal” button. One can still zoom in and out, drag the map, or double click on airports to get detailed information on them. Of course the terminal area charts will only work for airports which are actually charted on an FAA terminal area chart and not for any other airports - but you would have figured that one out for yourself, right ?

Note that the terminal area chart view has one additional zoom level as compared to the sectional chart view. As of today all TACs of the western US are available, the eastern ones will follow by Monday.

As always, if anything does not work, or you have a great idea how this site can be improved, please drop me a line at info@flyagogo.net. I appreciate any feedback!

Have fun and fly safe.