Finding IFR route to Private Airstrip on Sicily

Flying IFR through Italy Last summer we visited the Lido airfield near Venice in Italy on our way to an aviation event on the island Sicily all the way in the south of Italy. After having visited Courchevel, we set course to Lido near Venice. From ... Read more ...

Aviation Weather On The Go

Aviation Weather App for iPhone | iPad The AeroPlus Aviation Weather App provides aviation weather in a visual way: a picture says more than a 1000 words. However, the textual data is also available. The app is developed for iPhone and iPad. Some of ... Read more ...

Smart IFR Routing Engine

Eurocontrol maintains a CFMU/IFPS route suggestion and validation solution. Fire any IFR flight plan, excluding its route, to Eurocontrol and you will most likely get several suggested and validated IFR routes back in return. The problem is, that the ... Read more ...

VFR Addressing 2.0

Good flight planning is important, but it is probably one of the most dull parts of flying. Well, actually that would be filling in the aircraft journal after flight. I always seem to lose that tiny little piece of paper on which I wrote down all the flight ... Read more ...

Belgian Aerodrome automates Tower Operations

During a Cannes airshow I was presenting our aviation software in a booth right next to a booth dedicated to the aerodrome Saint Hubert with its visionary commandant, mr. Franck Dubarry. It was here that mr. Dubarry expressed his interest in finding good ... Read more ...

Filing Flight Plans out of your Pocket

Filing Flightplans On a recent business trip to Cannes with a Piper Archer II, we had the opportunity to shortly visit the great island of Corsica just off the coast of France. We just visited Verona and had a business appointment in Cannes, but could not fly ... Read more ...