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Draw a 114 Miles Circle Around Me

  1. I've institute some, but the map isn't a exclusive. Everyone know of one that uses a sectional to determine how far a altitude is from the aerodrome you're flight out of? The full radial circle around an drome? Can you lot do this on SkyVector, Airnav, etc?
  2. Goofy

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    Airnav has a blank to fill in to notice distance to the airport on that page. Lower right side of page.
    For offset wait at conditions inside a set up of radii I use Avnwx.com. You could cantankerous reference with sectional available on Airnav?
  3. Yeah, I know about that. I want to encounter a full circle around the airport for the distance.
  4. Like this but on a exclusive.

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  5. CT4ME

    CT4ME Cleared for Takeoff

    Apply Distance Rings on Foreflight? Or, in WingX, just move the map and it always displays the distance between your location and the cursor.
  6. I have WingX. Bought it on a really cheap sale for a twelvemonth merely haven't used information technology equally I haven't been flying. I'll try and figure that out. Thanks.
  7. Why not merely depict one yourself? That's what I did years agone. Ask to infringe a child's protractor, use the scale on the chart, and Boom! Washed.
  8. eman1200

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    looks similar aopa flying planner volition do it

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  9. I need to buy a nautical chart. Haven't bought one in years. That's why I was looking for something online. lol.
  10. Yeah, if I belonged to AOPA. ;)

    Hoping I can do information technology with some range rings in i of the free apps.

  11. eman1200

    eman1200 Touchdown! Greaser! PoA Supporter

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    maybe u should rephrase ur question to "anyone know of an online tool that I happen to belong to that does what I want?"
  12. Then order a sectional online or cheque your local airport. Less than $10. Do it yourself, not everything has to be custom store bought.
  13. Try gcmap.com. It doesn't map on sectionals, but it does utilise the airport database. For example, tell it "500mi@ATL" and it draws a 500 sm circle effectually ATL.

    http://world wide web.gcmap.com/mapui?R=500mi@atl&MS=wls&DU=mi

  14. Justin M

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    I actually like the flying planner on skyvector. Put in a source and destination and it clearly shows the road and distance. You can put in style points and routes.
  15. If you lot are new to WingX you should scout the WingX videos on YouTube so you will know how to take advantage of all the groovy features information technology has. There is also a good users manual that ane of our POA members created. Perchance Scrabo will come up forth and mail a link. I'grand on my iPhone and don't have the link on it.
  16. I think what you lot're looking for is one similar I employ -

    gpsvisualizer.com

    Try that

  17. SbestCFII

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    Brian, I just utilize the flight-program feature on my tablet, or the finger "caliper"altitude feature.
  18. Y'all need more than range! :)
  19. creweite

    creweite Pre-takeoff checklist

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    Try the demo version of iFly GPS. A two finger touch will brandish distance betwixt the chosen point, and the second point, whicj can exist moved equally needed. Besides at that place is a compass rose around present position which has the size noted on it. This changes with zoom level but is useful for a quick estimate of position by zooming in or out.
  20. What'due south the purpose of the request? Range rings on several products listed to a higher place would work nicely for brusque distances. Maybe, <200 miles.

    Only if it'south much longer than that, the shape of the "band" is all most the project yous're using for your map. A circumvolve will go more and more incorrect as the range gets bigger. If you lot're looking for an endurance ring for anything with whatsoever legs at all, y'all'll want something more specialized. Unfortunately, I don't have a place to go one off the top of my head.

  21. Just a quick style to see what airports are exterior of a particular range, such as 50 miles for 90 or 250 miles for the commercial long 90 rather than simply having to search the distance of one airport at a time.
  22. Seth Miller

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    Has anyone institute anything worth while yet? I have been wanting the same thing, and so that I tin put in a radius to see what airports are inside flight range to visit. Similar for a cantankerous country flight. Earlier anyone mentions using a newspaper sectional and flight planner...again.. yes I get that, simply I want something on my computer. Skyvector and Airnav dont have that feature.
  23. wrbix

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    Why not just use the exclusive map on any of the EFBs and aggrandize and contract the size to match your desired radius? Granted the corner areas will exist a bit outside the radius, but I'll bet you can figure that out.
  24. That works if you live at the airport. :D

    I drive an hour to the airport I fly out of so it's basically useless for that. Unless at that place's some way to move them I don't know about.

  25. wrbix

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    WingX and I suspect other EFBs let moving the center of map wherever yous want it (snap to center turned off)
  26. Google World.

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

    You might take to zoom in and out within that ring to be able to display some of the smaller fields that don't show up correct away at larger viewing areas.

    edit:

    I use Avare on my tablet, information technology has two/5/10 mile rings. Only those aren't the rings you are looking for.

    There used to be a website that let y'all practise that, tin can't remember what information technology'due south called now. They got shut downward considering of some trademark or patent deal. You could pick an airport, then put in a distance, and it would return all the airports inside that radius that met whatever criteria you entered.

    edit/edit:

    You can "salve" that ring. Then you lot can bounciness around inside information technology and double-click on airports to bring up their info without resetting it.

    Concluding edited: May eighteen, 2019
  27. Back in the dark ages before the days of following the magenta line, I had a large aviation chart on my office wall. Role functional, part chat slice. I put a string pivoted on my home airport and then through an center. I carefully and neatly marked a scale. I could move the string to a potential destination, agree information technology with my fingers, then move that part of the string to the calibration and see the altitude. This was not my ain idea. In nigh airports in those days there was a like map on the wall. Simple and stationary, but very handy.

    As far every bit accomplishing the same affair with an iSomething, with a small amount of practise on any EFB software parcel y'all can get a distance to potential destination in almost 2 heartbeats. Just load upwards your favorite and poke around a little scrap.

  28. Practice not even speak about those days! :eek:

    I actually had one of those maps with the string myself.

  29. WillFly4Food

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    We've got one at our FBO. Covers about half the country. Countless $1000 hamburger idea generator.
  30. apr911

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    You can use Skyvector. It takes some fourth dimension but it works... (the aforementioned method works with foreflight too)

    Lets say I was looking to do a 50NM radius around airport Philadelphia international

    Go to flying plan way. Put KPHL airport in every bit the origin and destination. In the "road" section yous can put KPHL360050 to go the bespeak that is due n and a distance of 050nm from KPHL, adjacent waypoint practise KPHL010050 and proceed in x caste increments until y'all achieve 360 over again.

    If yous want you can besides have it draw out concentric circles for other distances by just continuing to add points at farther distances.

    You can utilize whatever heading increment you want depending on how coarse/fine you lot want the circle to be and how much you desire it to look like a circle; I notice 10 degrees works adequately well though occasionally if I have an airdrome on the line, when I measure it, it comes up short (particularly as you get further out and as the drome gets closer to beingness between the 2 heading based fixes) just 10 degrees increments make it real easy to do a notice/supervene upon in a notepad on all 37 waypoints (360 is entered twice) and extend the altitude every bit I can search for 0<onetime altitude> (0050) and replace information technology with 0<new distance> (say 0100).

    Y'all can also use whatsoever waypoint point yous want as long as it has an identifier that skyvector is aware of (airports, VORs, intersections, non-intersection waypoints, VP waypoints, etc).

    I'll use the feature for distance when calling up a tower and am told to report "X mile terminal" I'll create a quick flight programme from "electric current location" to Airport, Rail Reciprocal Heading and distance and finally the airport

    So if I were landing 09 at KPHL I'd put in KPHL270010 for a 10 NM final to 09.

    There'southward also means to log a change to altitude or airspeed enroute.

    Last edited: May 19, 2019
  31. apr911

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

    upload_2019-5-19_16-9-47.png

    I'll even be squeamish 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.

  32. Wow! Before it got knocked out of business a couple of years agone, RUNWAYFINDER.com did this in 2 seconds:mad:

michaelsbeasto.blogspot.com

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