New tool to check TFRs

[Bill]

We put up a new website just yesterday for anyone to check TFRs before
a flight. Unlike most TFR searches that let you examine an area
around a point, this lets you check along a route. You can put in
TKI-ATL and you'll find that little TFR along the way.

It's free for anyone to use, so go to www.tfrcheck.com and put in a
route. TKI-ATL will give you an example if you need one, or you can
just put in anything with a stop nearr D.C. along your route. :)


Hope it helps, and feedback is appreciated.

Bill Strahan
www.adventurepilot.com

[Larry Dighera]

On Sat, 19 Nov 2005 10:32:09 -0600, Bill > wrote in
>::

>feedback is appreciated

Thanks for a useful tool. Well done.

Although the example route:

Enter a route using airport IDs such as "DFW-ATL-BOS"

doesn't show ICAO airport identifiers, the search works fine with
them: KDFW-KATL-KBOS.

[A Lieberman]

On Sat, 19 Nov 2005 10:32:09 -0600, Bill wrote:

> Hope it helps, and feedback is appreciated.

Why can't the FAA make something this nice?

Too bad you can't use this as your "official" source....

I like the fact you can bookmark your common routes by typing in your
initial search and then bookmarking your results.

Allen

[Bill]

On Sat, 19 Nov 2005 17:11:30 GMT, Larry Dighera >
wrote:

>On Sat, 19 Nov 2005 10:32:09 -0600, Bill > wrote in
>::
>
>>feedback is appreciated
>
>Thanks for a useful tool. Well done.
>
>Although the example route:
>
> Enter a route using airport IDs such as "DFW-ATL-BOS"
>
>doesn't show ICAO airport identifiers, the search works fine with
>them: KDFW-KATL-KBOS.

We didn't point that out, thanks! We try to figure out whatever
identifier is being used. FAA and ICAO...we stopped short of IATA,
that would just be silly. :)

Because the IDs are in there you can do some international stuff as
well. Try TKI-AUS-BRO-MMMA-MMTM-MMVR-MMMT-MMCP-MMCZ for a route I
flew a few year back in a Grumman Traveler. It's fun for just a
quick route visualization tool as well. DFW-EGLL is Dallas to London,
England if you want to see a big route.

If you have a hi-res display, you can make the map bigger for more
detail.

Also, the route is on the URL itself, so if you want to link to it
yourself you can. The URL looks like:

http://tfrcheck.com/Default.aspx?tabid=147&Route=tki-atl

Where tki-atl is the route. If you want to automate links for your
own pages, just replace the route with your own, and the url should
take a user straight to that route.

Glad you like it.

Bill Strahan
www.adventurepilot.com

[Morgans]

"Bill" > wrote

> Hope it helps, and feedback is appreciated.

Very nice. How often is it updated?

One suggestion. While looking around at some of the local airports, one of
them had it's identifier obscured, because it was identified where there was
a line denoting an interstate highway. Can that be fixed?

Thanks, for another favorite site!
--
Jim in NC

[J. Severyn]

"Bill" > wrote in message
...
> On Sat, 19 Nov 2005 17:11:30 GMT, Larry Dighera >
>>
>> Enter a route using airport IDs such as "DFW-ATL-BOS"
>>
>>doesn't show ICAO airport identifiers, the search works fine with
>>them: KDFW-KATL-KBOS.
>
> We didn't point that out, thanks! We try to figure out whatever
> identifier is being used. FAA and ICAO...we stopped short of IATA,
> that would just be silly. :)
>
> Because the IDs are in there you can do some international stuff as
> well. Try TKI-AUS-BRO-MMMA-MMTM-MMVR-MMMT-MMCP-MMCZ for a route I
> flew a few year back in a Grumman Traveler. It's fun for just a
> quick route visualization tool as well. DFW-EGLL is Dallas to London,
> England if you want to see a big route.
>
> Bill Strahan
> www.adventurepilot.com
>

Nice tool. The information is very concise and I don't have to dig it out
of tons of useless info like the Fed tools.

But, please explain again how you determine if an ICAO prefix is
appropriate. For instance: KSFO-PANC does not work. But both SFO-ANC and
KSFO-ANC do work.

Except for the slightly confusing acceptance of the prefix ID, I think this
tool is very useful.

Thanks,
John Severyn
KLVK

[Bill]

On Sat, 19 Nov 2005 14:16:43 -0500, "Morgans"
> wrote:

>
>"Bill" > wrote
>
>> Hope it helps, and feedback is appreciated.
>
>Very nice. How often is it updated?
>
>One suggestion. While looking around at some of the local airports, one of
>them had it's identifier obscured, because it was identified where there was
>a line denoting an interstate highway. Can that be fixed?
>
>Thanks, for another favorite site!

The data is pulled from a Jeppesen XML feed that they provide to the
public via agreement with the FAA. We check every few minutes to see
if anything has changed. If it has, we then download the entire list
and update ours.

The particular problem you're describing can probably be addressed.
This is all our software, not a third-party tool, so we can change
anything we want. Can you give me that airport ID so I can check it
specifically? That would be very helpful.

Glad you like it.

[Morgans]

"Bill" > wrote

> The particular problem you're describing can probably be addressed.
> This is all our software, not a third-party tool, so we can change
> anything we want. Can you give me that airport ID so I can check it
> specifically? That would be very helpful.
>
> Glad you like it.

NC52 silver creek, near Morganton, in the Western half of North Carolina.

It should not be hard to fix. It just has to look to the other layers for a
conflict, then put the designation above, instead of below, or to the left,
instead of the right, ect.
--
Jim in NC