flyagogo blog

I am delighted to announce a brand new feature on this website: the flyagogo.net Flying Destinations! Its purpose is to provide the aviation community with a simple, open, yet powerful platform to share information. Anything can be shared: sightseeing destinations, attractions, descriptions of an airport and its surroundings and infrastructure, restaurant tips, flying stories, experiences with an FBO, announcements of an airport day or fly-ins, an exciting aviation story, and pretty much anything else that is of interest to pilots. Only the sky is the limit. The project depends on the active participation of the aviation community - that is you! So go ahead, and post a story and share it with thousands of other pilots across northern America:

http://www.flyagogo.net/destinations

Submitted destinations will be associated to an airport. Visitors of the flyagogo.net website will see the posting whenever they search for information about this or a nearby airport, or planning a flight to that region. Visitors can also search for destinations within a certain radius around an airport, or by specifying keywords, or by browsing a list of recently added destinations. You can be sure that your posting will be seen!

A little background on this project: There are many websites scattered around the web that mention flying destinations. However I did not find a central platform that would allow pilots to openly and effectively share information about their flying passion. The pages that I found were either available only on a subscription basis, very limited in functionality and scope, censored by web site operators, or very hard to find. The flyagogo.net Flying Destinations are supposed to be different. They put you in charge and allow you to share information with a wide audience of fellow pilots. It works similar to a blog or in other words it is a kind of online diary. It is easy to post formatted text, including pictures to better illustrate a story.

One of the most frequent requests I had received from the users of this website concerned a feature that allows the aviation community to better participate and share information. I hope you like the way the Flying Destinations accomplish this! As always I am very open to suggestions how to improve the website. Special thanks go to Jonathan Hull, who inspired the idea of providing a blog like interface.

Happy flying!

Here’s a short roundup of what’s been happening around here lately:

• The flyagogo.net website was featured in AOPA’s flight training magazine! Welcome to anyone who learned about us through the magazine article. I hope you like the website and if you have any feedback please don’t hesitate to send it to info@flyagogo.net.
• All sectional and terminal area charts have been updated on their regular 28 day cycle. You may have noticed that this time the image quality of the charts has improved quite significantly. The image post processing steps have been tuned resulting in better colors and sharper chart images.
• We are currently experiencing intermittent problems with the satellite images. This is due to recent changes that NASA made to its image sources and technical glitches beyond my control. The problems should be resolved early this week (it seems the guys over at NASA are putting in a weekend shift to solve it!). If problems persist I will switch flyagogo.net over to another data source shortly. Sorry for the inconvenience that this may have caused.

Happy flying!