Archive for March, 2006

Flight planning made easy

Sunday, March 19th, 2006

Flyagogo.net has gained a couple of advanced flight planning features over the weekend:

  • Manage several customizable aircraft profiles (climb, cruise, descent air speed, climb and descent rate, and fuel usage)
  • Automatic determination of leg time and total flight time.
  • Automatic determination of fuel consumption.
  • Automatic determination of the top of climb (TOC) and top of descent points (TOD).
  • Save your favorite flight plans for later use.

In addition there have been many usability improvements and bug fixes which I will not list here. Some of the new functions which need to store user specific data require a free registration with flyagogo.net.

I hope you find the new tools useful. Give it a try when planning your next flight! As always I am very interested in your feedback: info@flyagogo.net.

Have fun!

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New Flightplanning Tool

Friday, March 3rd, 2006

Since today flyagogo.net integrates an easy to use flight plannig tool. Simply type a flight plan into the search box, let’s say my first solo cross country flight:

KPAO-KTCY-KMOD

and the flight path will be shown on the map. It’s as easy as that. Also the distances and headings for each leg will automatically be tabulated for your convenience. I hope you like this new feature and make use of it when planning for your next cross country flight. Forget about that ruler and foldable sectional charts. The future is online :-)

Here is a bit more detail for those who are interested. The flight planner accepts three types of waypoints:

  1. airports - use the 4 letter identifier starting with the letter K
  2. navaids - use the 3 letter navaid id
  3. airspace fixes - use the 5 letter identifier

The lines drawn between waypoints are in fact not straight - they are geodetic lines on the surface of the earth and represent the shortest connection between two points.

The flight planner is still in it’s beta phase. I plan to add more functionality as time goes on. As always I welcome any suggestions, comments, or ideas that you might have concerning the website. Please drop me a line at info@flyagogo.net

Have fun!

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