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Useful Links For Flight Planning


 

    • Smartchart - great for putting in a particular city and locating the closest airport.

 

    • AC-U-KWIK - This site will give you info about a particular airport - ie: Runway info, FBOs, nearby hotels, etc.

 

    • AirNav.com - A lot like AC-U-KWIK, but with more in-depth info including aerial photos of the runways, as well as addresses and web sites for the FBOs.

 

 

    • Great Circle Mapper - This will plot your course on the map just like you would using a string on the globe. (You will need the airport identifiers to use this program.)

 

    • Yahoo! Maps - Great for finding out how far your drive is from the airport to your destination.

 

 

    • STMP - Special Traffic Management Programs. These programs are implemented for special events that attract thousands of people and aircraft to participating airports. To properly manage the flow of arrivals and departures for these events, the FAA requires users to make arrival and departure reservations to and from these airports. Typically the reservation system is used for arrivals and departures for the Ski Season airports in the west, airports close to the Superbowl, Masters Tournament, NASCAR races, etc.

 

    • Corporate Angel Network: Become a Corporate Angel. Your company can join 500 major corporations, including 56 of the top 100 in the Fortune 500, and use an empty seat on your aircraft traveling on routine business to give a cancer patient a lift to life-saving, state-of-the-art cancer treatment at no cost or inconvenience to you.

 

 

 

 

    • US Department of State- Bureau of Consular Affairs ?Lots of good info on traveling abroad. Check it out for travel advisories or visa & passport information.

 

Weather:

 

Ground Transportation:

Limousine Companies:

·         Airportservice.com

·         CLS Transportation

·         eCarey Limo

·         Dav El

·         Savoya aka: mysedan.com

Rental Car Companies:

·         Alamo

·         Avis

·         Dollar Rent a Car

·         Enterprise Rent-A-Car

·         Hertz

 

Sources to ship golf bags or luggage:

·         Golfbagshipping.com- When the bags won?t fit in the airplane, ship them ahead of time!

·         UPS

·         FEDEX

 Catering:

·         Rudy's Inflight Catering

Websites to do security checks:

  • www.infosyssec.com.- Gives a bunch of ways to verify - reverse address, phone numbers, company names, etc.
  • Anywho.com- Operated by AT&T Info Services. Provides reverse telephone number lookup, white & yellow page searches, company searches.
  • www.hoovers.com- Provides basic information on all companies incorporated in the US. Lists info on their business, upper management, etc.

 

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Page last updated June 1, 2006.