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Last week I attended a safety seminar at the West Valley Flying Club. Patti Andrews, flight instructor at West Valley, explained to us what it takes to fly the Bay Tour - a scenic route over the city of San Francisco, Sausalito, the Bridges and so on. One thing that became clear is the importance of knowing about temporary flight restrictions well before take off! Especially in a busy city like San Francisco a TFR can pop up very quickly and unnoticed.

With this in mind I took off for an internet cafe this weekend and while sipping a large cup of coffee implemented an important new feature for the flyagogo website: Flyagogo.net now overlays current temporary flight restrictions on all the charts. More enhancements are coming soon. Stadium TFRs - the 3 nm circle around any large stadium during a game - will be included. As was suggested to me at the seminar there will also be a link to the game schedule for each stadium so that one can easily check if a stadium TFR is active or not.

A word of caution though: Please be aware that any pilot must call a flight service station and read all NOTAMS before going on a flight. There is no guarantee that all TFRs are displayed completely and correctly on this website. The same is true for any other website by the way including the official FAA website. So be careful!

Happy flying!

Some users of the flyagogo.net website have asked me to display fuel prices with each airport and FBO. The problem with most fuel price databases on the web is that they depend on pilots and FBOs to keep them up to date. Often one is required to check several websites to get a somewhat reliable idea of what the current fuel price might be. Rather than starting yet another fuel price database here on flyagogo.net I decided to provide you with direct links to some of the exisiting ones. In that way you can easily check several sources before take off: Simply search for an airport as usual and then check under the Links tab! Are you missing any important website that should be linked here? Let me know and I will add it.

And there is another new feature: Look for the download as pdf icon for each airport. Click it and you will get a printable, kneeboard-formatted pdf file with all the important airport information, like runways, communication frequencies, and everything else. If you are missing anything that would be useful let me know. As a bonus the pdf file will also contain a high resolution color excerpt from the sectional chart. Enjoy.