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Ed, Tandy and everybody,
The trip planner on that comes free with an EAA membership lets you
do all that planning online. You can easily insert a waypoint into a
route just by clicking on the spot on the sectional. It will
translate that to lat/long in a format you can enter into your GPS.
Can't get much easier! It will also print out trip ticks - little
pieces of sectional just the right size for a kneeboard (5x7) with
your route on it, complete with miles to the next waypoint printed
every 10 miles. It's totally web based, so you need no software on
your PC (or in my case, Mac). It will check weather for you, compute
times using winds aloft, and so on. I have used it countless time to
plan trips. It hasn't failed me yet!
The one drawback is that you must have a web browser to use it.
http://www.aeroplanner.com
I think you may need to get to from www.eaa.org the first time, I
don't know.
Larry Snyder
N99340
On Jan 3, 2007, at 2:38 PM, Ed Burkhead wrote:
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Tandy wrote:
> The trip is beginning to sound better all the time. I
> guess that one of my concerns is the amount of
> restricted area back east.
Tandy,
There’re not that many obstacles on the route to Connecticut. If
you have a transponder, you can pass south of Chicago and Cleveland
and north of Canton and Youngstown and way north of New York City.
If you don’t have a transponder, you might want to pass south of
Youngstown and north of Pittsburg. But the doglegs aren’t very
acute and the length of the path isn’t that much longer than a
straight line. Useful website:
http://aviationtoolbox.org/raw_data/FAA/sectionals/
In some ways, travel around restricted airspace is easier these days.
On my two trips to the East, Connecticut and Pennsylvania, I
started my flight planning on the sectionals I spread out on the
conference table.
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