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Easily find distance between airports

By Xavi J’s request, I’ve just implemented a new improvement on the Flight Distance Calculations (under Pilot Tools)

Xavi requested to get contextual help in finding the airport he wanted to calculate the distance to.

What this means is that you can now start typing the name of the airport, and you’ll immediately get a list of airports whose names match what you’re typing.
Let’s se an example:

Say you want to calculate the distance from Miami INTL (KMIA) to Fort Lauderdale Executive but you don’t remember its ICAO identifier.
You then go to Pilot Tools, then Distance, Time & Course.

You now write KMIA in the From field. You’ll see we’ve added a new filed: Search for. Start typing “Fort Lauderdale” and you’ll see how you get a number of suggestions. Like this: Continue reading “Easily find distance between airports” »

Meteo·Mobile goes SOCIAL

Right at the very beginnings of Meteo·Mobile, we wanted this site to be “social“. That was back in 2006 when social wasn’t the latest hype. Ever since, we’ve developed some features so that pilots can add value for other pilots (economist call this ‘network externalities’).

Some of those efforts where the Add Points Of Interest feature, that you can use through the “Suggest a link” link at the bottom of the “Extra information for…” found on most Meteo·Mobile’s pages. Others were in the form of Feedback forms, and the like.

Facebook has become THE social network, so we’ve started including their “comments” feature.

Now, when you visit any of the pages related to an airport, Continue reading “Meteo·Mobile goes SOCIAL” »

New bar for easier Navigation

We’ve added a new bar throughout the whole Meteo·Mobile site to help you navigate the thousands of weather pages.

You’ll see it below the logo and Facebook “like” button, in this case in a Metar request for Mountain View (KNUQ):

new navigation bar

Here is another example, when searching for an airport…

New Navigation bar, airports in a countryI hope this helps you better understand where is the weather information you are looking for during your flight planning.