Hi All,

I recently started working on an instrument rating and found that the
www.naco.faa.gov website is little cumbersome to download and print
approach plates. So I created a little tool that simplifies the process
and thought others might find it useful. The tool will assemble a
single PDF document of all terminal procedures publications for one or
more (max. of 3) airports. You can also select which types of
approaches you'd like included and can also include airport diagrams,
takeoff min. and radar min. Please be patient as the downloading and PDF
assembling can take some time.

http://arion.doit.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/tpp.pl
username/password is guest/guest

I also created a frequency and navaid tool that will calculate all
airports and navaids along a flight and print the basic information
about them. It takes a 20nm path for airports and a 50nm path for
navaids. They are presented in the order that they will be encountered.
You can give it a try here:

http://arion.doit.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/flightplan.cgi
username/password is guest/guest

Questions, comments or suggestion are welcome.

Todd Neidinger

remove the no and spam from the return email address.

In article >,
Todd Neidinger > wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>I recently started working on an instrument rating and found that the
>www.naco.faa.gov website is little cumbersome to download and print
>approach plates. So I created a little tool that simplifies the process
> and thought others might find it useful. The tool will assemble a
>single PDF document of all terminal procedures publications for one or
>more (max. of 3) airports.

Awesome! I've been thinking of doing something like this for a while,
but never got off my butt and did it. Thanks for putting it together.

"Todd Neidinger" > wrote in message
...

> I recently started working on an instrument rating and found that the
> www.naco.faa.gov website is little cumbersome to download and print
> approach plates. So I created a little tool that simplifies the process
> and thought others might find it useful. The tool will assemble a
> single PDF document of all terminal procedures publications for one or
> more (max. of 3) airports. You can also select which types of
> approaches you'd like included and can also include airport diagrams,
> takeoff min. and radar min. Please be patient as the downloading and PDF
> assembling can take some time.

Very nice. Which PDF module did you use for the assembly?

Julian Scarfe

Thanks!!! That TPP tool is handy, but the airport/navaid tool doesn't seem
to be working. I don't get any output.
Jim

Very nice! I hate to be greedy, but how about arrivals and departures...

Michael

"Todd Neidinger" > wrote in message
...
> Hi All,
>
> I recently started working on an instrument rating and found that the
> www.naco.faa.gov website is little cumbersome to download and print
> approach plates. So I created a little tool that simplifies the process
> and thought others might find it useful. The tool will assemble a single
> PDF document of all terminal procedures publications for one or more (max.
> of 3) airports. You can also select which types of approaches you'd like
> included and can also include airport diagrams, takeoff min. and radar
> min. Please be patient as the downloading and PDF assembling can take some
> time.
>
> http://arion.doit.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/tpp.pl
> username/password is guest/guest
>
> I also created a frequency and navaid tool that will calculate all
> airports and navaids along a flight and print the basic information about
> them. It takes a 20nm path for airports and a 50nm path for navaids. They
> are presented in the order that they will be encountered. You can give it
> a try here:
>
> http://arion.doit.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/flightplan.cgi
> username/password is guest/guest
>
> Questions, comments or suggestion are welcome.
>
> Todd Neidinger
>
> remove the no and spam from the return email address.

Excellent. My only suggestion is, can I get more than 3 airports?


Todd Neidinger > wrote in news:ctola3$ljk$1
@news.doit.wisc.edu:

> http://arion.doit.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/tpp.pl

Todd,

The PDF maker works great. But the freq / navaid tool doesn't appear
to do anything.
I tried it with 3y3 and RVS.

Greg

Sweet! Thanks.

"Todd Neidinger" > wrote in message
...
> Hi All,
>
> I recently started working on an instrument rating and found that the
> www.naco.faa.gov website is little cumbersome to download and print
> approach plates. So I created a little tool that simplifies the process
> and thought others might find it useful. The tool will assemble a
> single PDF document of all terminal procedures publications for one or
> more (max. of 3) airports. You can also select which types of
> approaches you'd like included and can also include airport diagrams,
> takeoff min. and radar min. Please be patient as the downloading and PDF
> assembling can take some time.
>
> http://arion.doit.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/tpp.pl
> username/password is guest/guest
>
> I also created a frequency and navaid tool that will calculate all
> airports and navaids along a flight and print the basic information
> about them. It takes a 20nm path for airports and a 50nm path for
> navaids. They are presented in the order that they will be encountered.
> You can give it a try here:
>
> http://arion.doit.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/flightplan.cgi
> username/password is guest/guest
>
> Questions, comments or suggestion are welcome.
>
> Todd Neidinger
>
> remove the no and spam from the return email address.

Fixed. There was a little bug when using that tool with I/E. I tested
using firefox only, after all who's using i/e anymore ;^)

Jim Burns wrote:
> Thanks!!! That TPP tool is handy, but the airport/navaid tool doesn't seem
> to be working. I don't get any output.
> Jim
>
>

Thanks Todd.

This question goes out to those with ifr experience (I'm proud to say my
ticket is 17 days old). Is it reasonable to just print the destination and
alternate plates and depart?

"Todd Neidinger" > wrote in message
...
> Hi All,
>
> I recently started working on an instrument rating and found that the
> www.naco.faa.gov website is little cumbersome to download and print
> approach plates. So I created a little tool that simplifies the process
> and thought others might find it useful. The tool will assemble a single
> PDF document of all terminal procedures publications for one or more (max.
> of 3) airports. You can also select which types of approaches you'd like
> included and can also include airport diagrams, takeoff min. and radar
> min. Please be patient as the downloading and PDF assembling can take some
> time.
>
> http://arion.doit.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/tpp.pl
> username/password is guest/guest
>
> I also created a frequency and navaid tool that will calculate all
> airports and navaids along a flight and print the basic information about
> them. It takes a 20nm path for airports and a 50nm path for navaids. They
> are presented in the order that they will be encountered. You can give it
> a try here:
>
> http://arion.doit.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/flightplan.cgi
> username/password is guest/guest
>
> Questions, comments or suggestion are welcome.
>
> Todd Neidinger
>
> remove the no and spam from the return email address.

dlevy > wrote:
>This question goes out to those with ifr experience (I'm proud to say my
>ticket is 17 days old). Is it reasonable to just print the destination and
>alternate plates and depart?

If the weather is VFR and you're just filing because you want to, not
because you have to, then it's probably reasonable.

If the weather really gets bad, you'll want more choices than just
your destination and filed alternate. Having the full book with you
gives you those choices.

The idea is to always have an out. Let's say an hour into a three
hour flight a pax starts to feel ill (or airsick, or has to pee, or
whatever). If it's IFR at the nearest airport to your current
position and you don't have approach plates for it, you've got a
problem.

> wrote:
>On 2 Feb 2005 13:08:24 -0500, (Roy Smith) wrote:
>
>>dlevy > wrote:
>>>This question goes out to those with ifr experience (I'm proud to say my
>>>ticket is 17 days old). Is it reasonable to just print the destination and
>>>alternate plates and depart?
>>
>>If the weather is VFR and you're just filing because you want to, not
>>because you have to, then it's probably reasonable.
>>
>>If the weather really gets bad, you'll want more choices than just
>>your destination and filed alternate. Having the full book with you
>>gives you those choices.
>
>Those choices always exist, with or without plates on board.

Well, yes you can always get ATC to read you the approach. And, yes,
pilots should certainly be aware of that possibility so they know it
exists in case they ever need to call on it.

But, as much as possible, you want to be self-sufficient. Carrying a
book of approach plates that costs about $4 doesn't seem like too much
to ask.

You do bring up a good point about the IFR GPS having most of the
information needed to fly the approach. It doesn't seem like it would
have taken that much more memory to stuff the altitudes in there too;
then you would be completely self-sufficient without the need to carry
dead trees around with you.

This thing is great!!! How about doing it for an entire state?