Anybody know of a good online aviation radius map?

[Jeff Winters]

Aha, I had to put *.* in the Explorer filename field to make it show TIFFs. Thanks!

Thanks for the contributions to the thread, everyone!

 

[Dana]

Aha, I had to put *.* in the Explorer filename field to make it show TIFFs. Thanks!

Or when importing, pick "files of type" and select GeoTIFF.

 

[GeorgeC]

Google Earth.

Ugh. Nerd sniped I just spent way too much time getting sectionals into earth.google.com.

I went to

https://tiles.arcgis.com/tiles/ssFJjBXIUyZDrSYZ/arcgis/rest/services/VFR_Sectional/MapServer [1]

, lifted out one of the tile URLs, and turned it into the kind of template it was looking for:

https://tiles.arcgis.com/tiles/ssFJjBXIUyZDrSYZ/arcgis/rest/services/VFR_Sectional/MapServer/tile/$[level]/$[y]/$[x]?cacheKey=b5d85e1b94b034e1

I was also able to pull some metadata out of this xml:

https://tiles.arcgis.com/tiles/ssFJjBXIUyZDrSYZ/arcgis/rest/services/VFR_Sectional/MapServer/WMTS/1.0.0/WMTSCapabilities.xml

in order to set the bounding box:


It worked!

Center your home airport. Click on the Ruler. Click on Circle. Click on your home airport and drag out to the radius you want. In the search box, enter "Airports".

Unfortunately, the web version does not seem to support the Circle tool, but I bet you could follow the above process to load the charts into the native version of Google Earth.

[1] https://www.pilotsofamerica.com/com...-happened-to-chartbundle.145754/#post-3487938

 

[Matthew]

I have no recollection at all of making that post.

 

[MikeNY]

If considering older option (mentioned in 2017, post #2), Avnwx.com illustration:
- not on sectional; tap on airport to display identifier
- circle increments: 10,25,50,100,150,250,500

 

[Tarheelpilot]

I have no recollection at all of making that post.

Recovery is a process. Hang in there bud.

 

[crfracer47]

Here's a screen shot of 2 concentric circles at 50NM and 100NM around KPHL using skyvector.

View attachment 74228


I'll even be nice and provide the waypoints used for the first circle:
KPHL360050
KPHL010050
KPHL020050
KPHL030050
KPHL040050
KPHL050050
KPHL060050
KPHL070050
KPHL080050
KPHL090050
KPHL100050
KPHL110050
KPHL120050
KPHL130050
KPHL140050
KPHL150050
KPHL160050
KPHL170050
KPHL180050
KPHL190050
KPHL200050
KPHL210050
KPHL220050
KPHL230050
KPHL240050
KPHL250050
KPHL260050
KPHL270050
KPHL280050
KPHL290050
KPHL300050
KPHL310050
KPHL320050
KPHL330050
KPHL340050
KPHL350050
KPHL360050


Modify your way point and distance to your hearts content.

This method worked perfectly in ForeFlight on the web. Copy and paste the above way points into MS Word, then Find/Replace (Ctrl+F) "PHL" with identifier of starting point, select replace all, then copy and paste into ForeFlight FPL route, and load the Sectional view. Took me all of about 45 seconds to do that, and most of that was waiting for Word to load. Easy to do the same for distance, just Find/Replace "050" with distance desired.

Thanks apr911 for doing the hard work for that, very helpful. Finally have a way to do this simply. Now I just hope others that were/are looking for this same thing are able to find it easily enough.

As a side note, the AOPA flight planner did not like this format. Unknown on other applications as I do not have any.

 

[flyingron]

NACO used to produce a two panel VFR/IFR wall planning chart. I had it hanging in my office for a while. I had a string that hand marks on it every 100 miles dangling from a thumbtack. It's too bad they stopped making that particular one. Later when I got a different office and had more wall space, I replaced it with three panels of the DMA JNC charts instead.

One airport I stopped at had a cute thing. THey had mosaicked a bunch of sectionals together on the wall and then ran a string through an eyelet where the airport was and that ran over to a pulley and a weight. As you pulled the end of the string out from the airport, the weight ascended a printed scale on the wall that told you how far you had gone.

 

[flyingpreacher]

If you take the following, put it into Word, Replace KIPT with your airport code (Control or Command+F to find, then replace all) you can have 50, 100, and 325 NM rings in ForeFlight. (I used 325, because that's my max planning range. I have more fuel than that, but if I plan for that, I leave myself approx. 1h45m-2h of fuel for those "just in case" moments)

KIPT360050 KIPT010050 KIPT020050 KIPT030050 KIPT040050 KIPT050050 KIPT060050 KIPT070050 KIPT080050 KIPT090050 KIPT100050 KIPT110050 KIPT120050 KIPT130050 KIPT140050 KIPT150050 KIPT160050 KIPT170050 KIPT180050 KIPT190050 KIPT200050 KIPT210050 KIPT220050 KIPT230050 KIPT240050 KIPT250050 KIPT260050 KIPT270050 KIPT280050 KIPT290050 KIPT300050 KIPT310050 KIPT320050 KIPT330050 KIPT340050 KIPT350050 KIPT360050 KIPT001100 KIPT031100 KIPT041100 KIPT051100 KIPT061100 KIPT071100 KIPT081100 KIPT091100 KIPT101100 KIPT111100 KIPT121100 KIPT131100 KIPT141100 KIPT151100 KIPT161100 KIPT171100 KIPT181100 KIPT191100 KIPT201100 KIPT211100 KIPT221100 KIPT231100 KIPT241100 KIPT251100 KIPT261100 KIPT271100 KIPT281100 KIPT291100 KIPT301100 KIPT311100 KIPT321100 KIPT331100 KIPT341100 KIPT351100 KIPT001100 KIPT002325 KIPT012325 KIPT022325 KIPT032325 KIPT042325 KIPT052325 KIPT062325 KIPT072325 KIPT082325 KIPT092325 KIPT102325 KIPT112325 KIPT122325 KIPT132325 KIPT142325 KIPT152325 KIPT162325 KIPT172325 KIPT182325 KIPT192325 KIPT202325 KIPT212325 KIPT222325 KIPT232325 KIPT242325 KIPT252325 KIPT262325 KIPT272325 KIPT282325 KIPT292325 KIPT302325 KIPT312325 KIPT322325 KIPT332325 KIPT342325 KIPT352325 KIPT002325


If you would like a custom distance, let me know and I can probably make it for you pretty quickly and DM it back to you.

ETA: Note - Foreflight only supports 3 digit distances, so the largest radius available is 999NM.

 

[rockwoodrv9a]

If you take the following, put it into Word, Replace KIPT with your airport code (Control or Command+F to find, then replace all) you can have 50, 100, and 325 NM rings in ForeFlight. (I used 325, because that's my max planning range. I have more fuel than that, but if I plan for that, I leave myself approx. 1h45m-2h of fuel for those "just in case" moments)

KIPT360050 KIPT010050 KIPT020050 KIPT030050 KIPT040050 KIPT050050 KIPT060050 KIPT070050 KIPT080050 KIPT090050 KIPT100050 KIPT110050 KIPT120050 KIPT130050 KIPT140050 KIPT150050 KIPT160050 KIPT170050 KIPT180050 KIPT190050 KIPT200050 KIPT210050 KIPT220050 KIPT230050 KIPT240050 KIPT250050 KIPT260050 KIPT270050 KIPT280050 KIPT290050 KIPT300050 KIPT310050 KIPT320050 KIPT330050 KIPT340050 KIPT350050 KIPT360050 KIPT001100 KIPT031100 KIPT041100 KIPT051100 KIPT061100 KIPT071100 KIPT081100 KIPT091100 KIPT101100 KIPT111100 KIPT121100 KIPT131100 KIPT141100 KIPT151100 KIPT161100 KIPT171100 KIPT181100 KIPT191100 KIPT201100 KIPT211100 KIPT221100 KIPT231100 KIPT241100 KIPT251100 KIPT261100 KIPT271100 KIPT281100 KIPT291100 KIPT301100 KIPT311100 KIPT321100 KIPT331100 KIPT341100 KIPT351100 KIPT001100 KIPT002325 KIPT012325 KIPT022325 KIPT032325 KIPT042325 KIPT052325 KIPT062325 KIPT072325 KIPT082325 KIPT092325 KIPT102325 KIPT112325 KIPT122325 KIPT132325 KIPT142325 KIPT152325 KIPT162325 KIPT172325 KIPT182325 KIPT192325 KIPT202325 KIPT212325 KIPT222325 KIPT232325 KIPT242325 KIPT252325 KIPT262325 KIPT272325 KIPT282325 KIPT292325 KIPT302325 KIPT312325 KIPT322325 KIPT332325 KIPT342325 KIPT352325 KIPT002325


If you would like a custom distance, let me know and I can probably make it for you pretty quickly and DM it back to you.

ETA: Note - Foreflight only supports 3 digit distances, so the largest radius available is 999NM.

Thanks! I just tried it in skyvector and it worked great. I changed it to 425 miles which is what I plan for 2.5 to 3 hours. Gives a nice way to plan a trip!