Aviation website for Cdn pilots to figure distances

[DEL]

I am looking for a Canadian aviation website like Airnav.com so I can figure out my point to point for cross country distances. I have not flown in Canada for a number of years and I am getting ready to get my US FAA ATP-R certificate and need to prove to the examiner that the cross countries are fifty miles or greater.

[cdnpilot77]

I use gcmap.com

[cdnpilot77]

There is also this one, http://www.daftlogic.com/projects-googl ... ulator.htm but it is a little less user friendly than gcmap

[CpnCrunch]

I use gcmap.com

+1 for gcmap. It's simple and works well.

[trey kule]

www.landings.com

Click on flight planning..

[iflyroads]

I used
http://skyvector.com/

top left just click Flight Plan

[AirFrame]

If you go to my fuel website at www.100ll.ca, you can enter the ident for any canadian airport in the box at the top. If you then click "LIST" next to it, you'll get a list of every airport in Canada, and the distance to it from the reference airport you entered in the box.

Click on the "distance" header to sort the table by distance and figure out which is closest. And when you visit one of the airports, send me a fuel report...

[Redneck_pilot86]

+1 for skyvector.com, you can even print off a map with the distance on it

[DEL]

Thanks for the various web sites. I have tried all of them and some are easier to use than others. I was doing some reading as to what a cross country is in Canada as I had thought it was 25 NM but there is nothing I can find as to what is a cross country distance in Canada. In the US a cross country is 50 NM or more. As I am going for my FAA ATP-R (restricted) some of my Canadian cross countries cant be used. Thanks again for the help.

[frozen solid]

Get your programmable scientific calculator handy.

Distance and bearing between two points on earth (point A and point B):

Distance=60.ACOS[SIN(latA).SIN(latB)+COS(latA).COS(latB).COS(longB-longA)]

Bearing=ATAN[SIN(longB-longA)/SIN(latA).COS(longB-longA)-TAN(latB).COS(latA)]

Don't say I never gave you anything. Now you don't need no "website", whatever the f%^K that is.

P.S...Oh, and Latitude is positive when North, negative when South, and bearings positive clockwise and negative counter-clockwise. Also degrees lat and long should be in decimal.

I'm also talking out of my ass a little bit here, I took these formulas from a celestial nav textbook I have. Try them and see if they work. They should. I think because it's based on great circles it's possible you might sometimes get reciprocal bearings, but you should be able to figure that out.

[North Shore]

Frozen! Please tell me you had that written down, and didn't know it off the top of your head..

[frozen solid]

No, I had it written down. The formulas are similar for figuring out the altitude and bearing of a celestial object, if you know your own latitude and longitude and you know the declination and GHA of an observable body. If you can guess your latitude and longitude, and calculate what the altitude and bearing of the object should be, then you can observe it and use the discrepancy between where it should be and where it actually is to figure out where you are relative to the spot you guessed you were at in the first place.

At least that's the theory. I've barely gotten past calculating my latitude at noon based on the sun's altitude. Math is hard.

[North Shore]

^ Sure, but isn't there an app for that?

[frozen solid]

"app"? What's that?

[Tail-Chaser]

We use Landings.com for distances. Just go to the flight planning section.

[Brantford Beech Boy]

F#cking children of the Magenta.......

I guess using a map is out of the question....

and Google Earth will give you point to point distance....

BBB

[wallypilot]

+1 to landings.com.....great for a quick reference for planning fuel stops anywhere in the world.

[Rockie]

I am getting ready to get my US FAA ATP-R certificate and need to prove to the examiner that the cross countries are fifty miles or greater.

I guess using a map is out of the question

Couldn't have said it better myself...show him a map.

How did we get anywhere before GPS and the internet for god's sake?

[I WAS Birddog]

F#cking children of the Magenta.......

I guess using a map is out of the question....

and Google Earth will give you point to point distance....

BBB

Prodigy Pilot: "Maps?....phhht Maps = Paper cuts old man."


iWbd: *positions for a rear naked choke hold* "Young pilots need naps. Shhhhh shhh shh...surrender to the sleep son" *squeeze*

Prodigy Pilot:

[North Shore]

Yes, indeed! A MAP:



..perhaps it should be in Spanish so that Americans can understand?

[Old Dog Flying]

And to think that some of us ACTUALLY navigated coast to coast with just a piece of paper, a ruler and a bloody E6B thingy..and no there is no app for that other than the super computer between your ears.

Don't get lost now

Barney Navigation instruction available at a reasonable cost

[Beefitarian]

I used a watch, VORs, pencil and some flight following myself.

Yes, indeed! A MAP:



..perhaps it should be in Spanish so that Americans can understand?

I enjoyed that but note two errors.
- Map requires replacement updates due to man and nature altering areas depicted by map.
- Colour can be affected by certain lighting conditions.