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Online Flight Planners

They're now good enough to do everything from any machine with Web Access.

Beyond just grabbing weather and filing your own laboriously created flight plan, the good ones offer substantial assistance in route and altitude planning, weather overlays and, frankly, more toys than the average pilot would utilize routinely.
Program and update disks are expensive and in the brave new world of ubiquitous and ever changing TFRs, disk-only programs are simply unable to offer “all available information.”
To their credit each of the following will give you current TFR's and ADIZ information.

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Ever whish you could see a sectional chart
and be able to pan, zoom or click on an airport to see the what and where's.
Take a look at this sight, you can with this one. Even if your going x-country, just click on the USA map of sectional for the area you want to look at. I.E. going to Oshkosh.
Click the Chicago area and zoom out. Pan over to the lake and zoom back in. pan around a bit more and you'll find it.
Easier way, click the runway at the top of the page and then pick the state and airport and bang, your there.
If you pick on the dots near the airport, the runway info pops up. It's all here.

Learn More About EAA Flight Planner
With the "EAA Flight Planner," EAA Members can easily plan a VFR flight, view a route on current maps (including Sectional, WACs, and others) , check NOTAMs and weather, file with DUATs, and many other functions.
This is a $50 value available FREE to all EAA Members!

AOPA's Real-Time Flight Planner includes powerful new features

AOPA's Real-Time Flight Planner upgrade

The latest version of AOPA's Real-Time Flight Planner features a host of enhancements, including graphical overlays of airmets and sigmets, wind speed/direction and temperature at altitude on the FlightLog, pop-up windows showing METARs along a route, and many others.

Click here for a complete description of the enhancements and instructions for downloading the new version. All of your stored pilot and aircraft profiles and routes are maintained when you install the new version.

DUATS

DynCorp Duats on the Web provides immediate on-line access to U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) approved information including: Current, continuously updated weather information; easy-to-understand plain language weather; flight plan filing and closing; and automated flight planning.

AeroPlanner.com provides pilots with flight planning tools and data including online sectional charts, FAA navigation databases, and route ploting based on airports and navaids.
View all NOS sectional charts online, query FAA navigation databases, plot routes based on airports and navaids, and print tripticks and store log information all online. Set up an account with us today, and see how we are bringing electronic charting systems to the Internet.