Finding nearest airport

Does anyone know if a site that provides an "offline" version of the GPS
nearest airport function? I'd like to be able to enter a given city and
find the nearest aiports to that city.

A quick net search didn't turn up anything. Well, I did find a site to
use to locate the nearest Shell station...

Matt

I'd like to be able to enter a given city and
find the nearest aiports to that city.

Matt, why not just look at a sectional chart?

vince norris

vincent p. norris ) wrote:

I'd like to be able to enter a given city and
find the nearest aiports to that city.

Matt, why not just look at a sectional chart?

Perhaps he is interested in a potential destination city for which he does
not yet have a sectional.

The average pilot does not have sectionals for an entire country, wouldn't
you agree?


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vincent p. norris wrote:

I'd like to be able to enter a given city and
find the nearest aiports to that city.


Matt, why not just look at a sectional chart?

vince norris

Are they available online? I live in PA and don't have charts for Iowa
and Illinois.

Matt

Matt, why not just look at a sectional chart?

Are they available online?

Don't know, Matt. But if you live near a "Depository Library," it
will have a set of sectionals.

(That's a library where the US government deposits whatever it
publishes. They are found at most state universities and perhaps big
city libraries.)

Some will even let you check out charts to use on your flights.

You may be able to glom onto obsolete sectionals at a nearby airport.
They're fine for planning purposes.

I live in PA and don't have charts for Iowa and Illinois.

But you'll need to get them if you want to fly out there; won't you?

If you can't find them at your local airport, you can buy them from
various mail-order sources.

It also just occurredto me that theAOPA Airport Directory includes
information for each airport such as 'five miles SW of town."

vince norris

vincent p. norris wrote:

Matt, why not just look at a sectional chart?


Are they available online?


Don't know, Matt. But if you live near a "Depository Library," it
will have a set of sectionals.

Unfortunately, I don't know of any depository libraries. Look up
Lawrenceville, PA in Yahoo and you'll see my problem. :-)


(That's a library where the US government deposits whatever it
publishes. They are found at most state universities and perhaps big
city libraries.)

Some will even let you check out charts to use on your flights.

You may be able to glom onto obsolete sectionals at a nearby airport.
They're fine for planning purposes.

I live in PA and don't have charts for Iowa and Illinois.

But you'll need to get them if you want to fly out there; won't you?

I'll need IFR charts and may buy sectionals for backup. I always file
IFR anymore as it is just easier with all of the airspace complications.
The trip is speculative at this point, so I didn't want to buy charts
that I might never use to find something I was sure had to be available
on the web.

I don't know why my search didn't find the airnav site, but it is a
great site.


Matt

Unfortunately, I don't know of any depository libraries. Look up
Lawrenceville, PA in Yahoo and you'll see my problem. :-)

I live in PA too, but I have sectionals for the midwest. Email me
with what it is you want to know, and I'll try to help you.

vince norris

"Matt Whiting" wrote in message
...
vincent p. norris wrote:

But you'll need to get them if you want to fly out there; won't you?

I'll need IFR charts and may buy sectionals for backup. I always file
IFR anymore as it is just easier with all of the airspace complications.
The trip is speculative at this point, so I didn't want to buy charts
that I might never use to find something I was sure had to be available
on the web.

Try using WAC charts for IFR cross-reference. Also, the VFR Terminal Area
charts.

Matt Whiting wrote:


I don't know why my search didn't find the airnav site, but it is a
great site.

Agreed. I forget everyone doesn't know about airnav. It should be part of the
Private Pilot curriculum. :-)

Just for the record, it's http://www.airnav.com

Also, Matt, you can get snippets of sectionals online, and I don't think anyone
has mentioned the possibility previously in this thread. If you're an EAA
member, you have access to http://www.aeroplanner.com. If not, there's a fee for
access, you might find it is worth it. As an alternative to paying the
aeroplanner fee, you can join EAA and get access as a member benefit.

There's another place for sectionals online, I think (from memory) it's
http://www.myairplane.com.

The people who run aeroplanner.com and myairplane.com hang out at
rec.aviation.owning sometimes, as does Paulo Sanchez(?) who runs airnav.com.

Dave

http://aviationtoolbox.org/old/nearby_airports

"Matt Whiting" wrote in message
...

Does anyone know if a site that provides an "offline" version of the GPS
nearest airport function? I'd like to be able to enter a given city and
find the nearest aiports to that city.

A quick net search didn't turn up anything. Well, I did find a site to
use to locate the nearest Shell station...

Matt