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Branching off of another topic; Backlash against Vector Airport Systems.

It looks like the domain isn't wanting to work, so I edited the post with the vercel domain for now. It's usually just airport-fees.com

I made a little side project to keep track of airport fees (based on fee type and aircraft/flight category) in a community driven manner, since you can't just hit up a database to find all the different fees for all the different airports: https://v0-airport-fee-website.vercel.app/

There's some nuances here, like some airports charge by weight ($50 for planes over 5,000LB) , some by weight increments ($10 for every 1,000LB), some by height (f*** you Vegas), some by type (private, charter, etc), on and on. So I don't really know how to classify these in the app -- I'm not looking to have extensive listings of what the fees are, just a general concept of if they will apply to you when you land there. If anyone has ideas on that, I'll take it. For now I put in a few types but they're not great.

The front-end is written with Vercel, which means it's mostly AI generated code. I'm a software engineer but I despise UI design so I offloaded it to our robot overlords. It does tend to randomly block traffic from what I can tell so at some point, I may have to change where it's hosted. 

If an airport you know to have fees is not on there, click "Submit Fee" at the top right corner to add it. It will then go in to an approval queue that I look at to approve it (where I look to see if the de-duplication logic works, or if it's spam). 

How to use:

  1. Go to https://v0-airport-fee-website.vercel.app/
  2. Put in a filter (You need US, but you can filter for fee types or aircraft types as well) and click Search.
  3. Click "Download for EFB" and select Foreflight (sorry, Garmin will come soon).
  4. Then send it to your phone, put it in ForeFlight, and you get the fees and descriptions that you filtered for.

You can go to www.airport-fees.com to test it out. I don't intend on making money on the site, but it does cost money to host it so if anyone uses it enough, feel free to throw in $10 or so for the hosting cost. 

It's far from perfect right now but I'll iterate if it gets use.

I don't intend on making money on this but if you want to help with the infrastructure fees, feel free to click "Buy me a coffee" in the corner. 

If you do or don't think this is useful, I'd love to hear about it or ways to iterate on it.

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I actually sent in a Feature Request to FF to put the fees more upfront in the Airport info.  Since it is becoming more of an issue, they were looking into it. 

Also suggested they promote that their Users send in reports on the latest fees so it can be kept up to date.  Simialar to the other User comments like Fuel, etc. 

 

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8 hours ago, TangoTango said:

I'm always a fan of new places to track airport fees! The AOPA data is submitted by the FBO so it is frequently incomplete.

However, I'm getting an error when I try to visit:

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Did you try the Vercel link? It looks like the main URL is busted for some reason but the Vercel one works. I’ll have to dig in to it tomorrow 

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