Locate airports by radius from a given airport

Does anyone know of a good way to locate airports that are 200 miles or
more from a given airport? I realize a large planning chart with a
circle drawn would be easy, but I don't have one of those handy. I need
to plan a 200 mile cross country for my commercial day/night long cross
country and want to look for airports at least 200, but less than say
300 miles from KELM. I figure someone somewhere knows of software which
will do this, but I'm not away of any.


Matt

In article ,
Matt Whiting wrote:

Does anyone know of a good way to locate airports that are 200 miles or
more from a given airport? I realize a large planning chart with a
circle drawn would be easy, but I don't have one of those handy. I need
to plan a 200 mile cross country for my commercial day/night long cross
country and want to look for airports at least 200, but less than say
300 miles from KELM. I figure someone somewhere knows of software which
will do this, but I'm not away of any.


Matt

Quickie cheating way is to log into DUATS and ask for a defined radius
briefing around your origin, asking for TAF's. You'll get a list of all
the airports with TAF's. Of course, drawing a circle on a WAC chart is not
only more traditional, but probably a lot more fun.

My commercial X/C was White Plains to Key West in a 172 (no A/P).

" Does anyone know of a good way to locate airports that are 200 miles or
more from a given airport? I realize a large planning chart with a circle
drawn would be easy, but I don't have one of those handy. I need to plan
a 200 mile cross country for my commercial day/night long cross country
and want to look for airports at least 200, but less than say 300 miles
from KELM. I figure someone somewhere knows of software which will do
this, but I'm not away of any.


Matt
Are you an AOPA member?
Their flight planner will give you distance.
Do you have a few old sectionals sitting around?
My old flight school had old sectionals on the walls
with a string marking mileage to quickly figure out
a radius from our airfield.

David

B A R R Y wrote:

On Sat, 27 May 2006 00:35:09 GMT, Matt Whiting
wrote:


Does anyone know of a good way to locate airports that are 200 miles or
more from a given airport? I realize a large planning chart with a
circle drawn would be easy, but I don't have one of those handy. I need
to plan a 200 mile cross country for my commercial day/night long cross
country and want to look for airports at least 200, but less than say
300 miles from KELM. I figure someone somewhere knows of software which
will do this, but I'm not away of any.


You can't spend $8 on a WAC chart? G Your school or FBO doesn't
have one on the wall that you can use for free?

Yes, and yes. However, I was going to do the flight planning tomorrow
and I can't get a WAC that quickly (the "local" FBO doesn't stock them)
and the FBO is 35 miles away and I'd rather not drive 70 miles with gas
prices at $3/gallon if I don't have to.

Maybe you can get an expired WC for free and use airnav.com to plan
the flight.

Planning the flight is easy, I use DUATS for that. It is picking the
destination that I was trying to automate a little.

Matt

Roy Smith wrote:

In article ,
Matt Whiting wrote:


Does anyone know of a good way to locate airports that are 200 miles or
more from a given airport? I realize a large planning chart with a
circle drawn would be easy, but I don't have one of those handy. I need
to plan a 200 mile cross country for my commercial day/night long cross
country and want to look for airports at least 200, but less than say
300 miles from KELM. I figure someone somewhere knows of software which
will do this, but I'm not away of any.


Matt


Quickie cheating way is to log into DUATS and ask for a defined radius
briefing around your origin, asking for TAF's. You'll get a list of all
the airports with TAF's. Of course, drawing a circle on a WAC chart is not
only more traditional, but probably a lot more fun.

That may be a clever way to do it. Yes, and if I had a WAC on hand I
would do it that way.

My commercial X/C was White Plains to Key West in a 172 (no A/P).

I guess you got the 200 miles easy enough! :-) I think you are located
about 200 miles from ELM, any airports you'd recommend that have a
decent restaurant? The plan is to fly out late in the day, spend some
time chowing down while the sun sets and then fly back for the night 200
miles.

Matt

Matt Whiting wrote in
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B A R R Y wrote:

On Sat, 27 May 2006 00:35:09 GMT, Matt Whiting
wrote:


Does anyone know of a good way to locate airports that are 200 miles
or more from a given airport? I realize a large planning chart with
a circle drawn would be easy, but I don't have one of those handy. I
need to plan a 200 mile cross country for my commercial day/night
long cross country and want to look for airports at least 200, but
less than say 300 miles from KELM. I figure someone somewhere knows
of software which will do this, but I'm not away of any.


You can't spend $8 on a WAC chart? G Your school or FBO doesn't
have one on the wall that you can use for free?

Yes, and yes. However, I was going to do the flight planning tomorrow
and I can't get a WAC that quickly (the "local" FBO doesn't stock
them) and the FBO is 35 miles away and I'd rather not drive 70 miles
with gas prices at $3/gallon if I don't have to.

Maybe you can get an expired WC for free and use airnav.com to plan
the flight.

Planning the flight is easy, I use DUATS for that. It is picking the
destination that I was trying to automate a little.

Matt

All the charts: www.skyvector.com

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completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete
fools."---- Douglas Adams

Airnav has a feature where you can search airports between two
user-specified radii. However, the maximum radius appears to be 200NM.
So, you can search airports between 100NM and 200NM.


Matt Whiting wrote:
Does anyone know of a good way to locate airports that are 200 miles or
more from a given airport? I realize a large planning chart with a
circle drawn would be easy, but I don't have one of those handy. I need
to plan a 200 mile cross country for my commercial day/night long cross
country and want to look for airports at least 200, but less than say
300 miles from KELM. I figure someone somewhere knows of software which
will do this, but I'm not away of any.


Matt

Google Earth will show airports.
-jim

Find a database of airports, including lat/lon coordinates. Load them into
Excel.

Find a formula to calculate distance between 2 points.

Put a column into the spreadsheet with the calculated distance from your
airport.

Sort by distance.


"Matt Whiting" wrote in message
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Does anyone know of a good way to locate airports that are 200 miles or
more from a given airport? I realize a large planning chart with a circle
drawn would be easy, but I don't have one of those handy. I need to plan
a 200 mile cross country for my commercial day/night long cross country
and want to look for airports at least 200, but less than say 300 miles
from KELM. I figure someone somewhere knows of software which will do
this, but I'm not away of any.


Matt

Andrew Sarangan wrote:

Airnav has a feature where you can search airports between two
user-specified radii. However, the maximum radius appears to be 200NM.
So, you can search airports between 100NM and 200NM.

That's unfortunate as it sounds like exactly what I was looking for. A
way to sort airports by distance so I could look for ones with the
facilities I was after, namely a decent restaurant in this case.

Thanks,
Matt