Professional Aviation

[Gatordev]

https://dbgia.geointel.nga.mil/ (can be accessed from home but needs CAC) -> Airport Directory can generate PDF smart pack with user selectable charts, info, approaches, etc.

Nice, I'll try this when I go to work tomorrow. Might be easier than makin' copies from a pub that I may or may not be able to find.

This may take some weeding through, and not DOD approved.. http://usa-w.vatsim.net/charts/#sam

I tried that yesterday and it did have stuff, but it's very dated. It took me a while to figure out that these were all computer geeks doing flight sim stuff and not meant as a real pilot resource.

Fun Fact: If you follow your link, you'll see the hotel from Casino Royale. I didn't realize it was so close to Atlantis.

Are you going to AUTEC or is it some other place you can't mention?

PM me, one of the SWTIs in 42-48 might be able to help you depending on the OPAREA you need.

Not Autec, but very close. No worries, I'll bug the patch-wearer pogues if magnetfreezer's link doesn't work.

I never found anything like airnav for OCONUS sites, other than maybe some AF/USA locally produced pubs, despite all my looking. Because there are some times such a site would have been fantastic.

I'm sure there's some DoD site buried somewhere, so hopefully that last link will reveal all.

I'm all about the progressive taxi...

Yes, but you see, you fly a platform that, I'm convinced, is designed for nothing more than blocking runways/taxiways and creating radio chatter on busy freqs. I keed (well, kinda).

 

[Gatordev]

https://dbgia.geointel.nga.mil/ (can be accessed from home but needs CAC) -> Airport Directory can generate PDF smart pack with user selectable charts, info, approaches, etc.

For those interested, this site is exactly what I was looking for. It's basically an international version of Airnav.com but less user-friendly. You'd think you were getting access to launch missles w/ the sign-up process, but once in, it's got it all there.

Thanks for the link.

 

[nittany03]

I keed (well, kinda).

Yeah, if he was serious he would have brought up knocking the arresting gear out of battery.

 

[Gatordev]

True (though it doesn't affect me).

 

[HuggyU2]

Great for studying low levels . . . Sometimes the VFR sectional shows certain areas better than the TPC . . .

VFR sectionals are always better for this. The terrain shading, depiction of airports and various airspace, freqs,... it's one-stop-shopping.
Plus, look at the date of TPC chart. It's probably 10 years old. I've almost got burned once on a low level route where I didn't have a sectional available. A lot had changed on the route, mainly a small river that had been dammed into a big lake about 6 years earlier. There were a few other changes too. Of course, the sectional depicted them.

 

[MH-Z]

VFR sectionals are always better for this. The terrain shading, depiction of airports and various airspace, freqs,... it's one-stop-shopping.
Plus, look at the date of TPC chart. It's probably 10 years old. I've almost got burned once on a low level route where I didn't have a sectional available. A lot had changed on the route, mainly a small river that had been dammed into a big lake about 6 years earlier. There were a few other changes too. Of course, the sectional depicted them.

Yeah, I'm a PFPS nerd for cases like that...

 

[Birdog8585]

Everyone is pob well aware of it but BASEOPS.NET is a great catch-all. Air Force centric but a nice resource nonetheless.

 

[MH-Z]

You can't go on CCX without this site in your arsenal:

https://ports.desc.dla.mil/ip_cis/ipcis_main?class=IPCISDriver&method=Process_req

Any airfield with contract fuel.

 

[CommodoreMid]

Thread resurrection, but figured it would be useful for my fellow studs. I had seen skyvector before, but I had never really explored it. The function for calculating course/distance between navaids and waypoints is AWESOME. It's sooooooooooo much easier and more accurate than sliding a piece of paper/plotter over the paper chart to estimate these numbers. It's especially awesome for plotting those godforsaken IAFs that are listed on the approach plate but not the chart itself. I'm still only in the 2B47 and just found out today about that function, but it already made filling out the jet log less of a headache. Highly recommend if you didn't already know about it.