Create Flight Maps?

[rbuck]

Do you all know any site out there where you can put your logged flights on a map? I have people ask me every so often where all I've flown, and it'd be really cool to show a map with all the routes. Plus, it would be neat to have and build on to over time!

There are a couple online I've tried, like Myflightbook and Openflights, but the main problem I keep getting is that our small general aviation airports aren't on there. Or some of them have the huge pin that they drop on the map that completely covers a portion of it.

Any ideas out there?

[slowflyin]

Great idea!   I'll start searching as well.

[Mooneymite]

It's not an actual flight track, but it shows locations well:

http://www.gcmap.com/

Just enter the airports separated by a dash, as in:

http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=ga04-klax-kphx-ksat-myam-ga04

[BorealOne]

Best way to do this is using electronic logbook software like LogTen - it will export to Google Earth so you can easily generate maps like this:

 

[smwash02]

I use Logbook Pro and the "Route Browser" add-in.

 

Attached are my flights from 2014 and what it shows you when you run it. It also has the ability to export to Google Earth to generate a better looking map.

[Jeff_S]

This doesn't show routes, but it does allow you to log which airports you've visited and whether or not you were a pilot.  Find it here at: http://www.ourairports.com.

 

I'm not sure how active the developers are on this site, as it doesn't seem to have a revenue model that I can discern, but it's been around for as long as I've been flying and I still add airports to it because it keeps a nice list.  It does have any GA airport you're likely to need in it.

[FloridaMan]

Do you want something that can show all routes from your logged flights like a spiderweb, or highlight states and/or airports that you've visited? I could probably throw something together pretty quickly for this. Would comma-delimitted work? Let me know what you're looking for. 

 

Example:

1/1/2015,KDCA,KJFK,1.0

1/2/2015,KJFK,KORD,2.0

[rbuck]

I think the spiderweb looking thing is neat. Just something that gives a graphic depiction of what my logbook says. It's fun to keep for myself, but like I said, it's cool to show other folks when they ask about flying, too. 

Thanks for your thoughts guys!

[Hank]

When people ask how far I've flown in my plane, I just tell them west to Yellowstone, north to Niagara Falls and south to Ft. Lauderdale. Most people know generally where these are.

I also keep a list of airports that I've visited, but I'm not leaving the game right now to go look it up. Should be around 85 airports in 18 or 19 states, I forget.

[rbuck]

Do you guys know of anything like LogTen or Logbook Pro that doesn't cost a lot of money? GCMap is cool, but I don't think that I can save it to keep building onto. 

[BoiseMooney]

Try flightmemory.com

I have used it for commercial flights, but a quick test shows it has the small airports around me as well.