Site map and FAQ for Nav 3000

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The site :

Airfields

• The airfields directory of Nav 3000. Almost 3500 airfields in the UK, South Africa, France, Belgium, Luxemburg, Switzerland, Germany and Canada.
• You can search an airfield using its name but also with criterias such as fuel availability, existence of a restaurant or a workshop...
• Cards include airfields pictures, satelitte pictures of what surrounds the airfields, a map with the nearest airfields, many practical and aeronautical information (restaurants, car rental, accomodation, workshops, lengthes and orientation of the runways, altitude...) and pilots' opinions about the airfield.
  
• Data are updated by pilots using the site. To update data (for exemple concerning your own airfield), simply search its card, then use the button at its bottom. You get a form enabling you to update the data.
• You can give your opinion about an airfield and see the opinions already given. The buttons to do this are in the airfield card.
• To add an airfield picture see "Add a picture". You can do it from the update form of the airfield card.
• You can choose a favorite airfield using the button at the bottom of its card. You'll then be able to display this card directly from the navigation menu, without any searching.
• You can give your opinion or advices about any airfield, using the button at the bottom of the airfield card.
  

Route planner
Turning points can be:

• airfields,
• VORs,
• transit points en route to Corsica
• choosen directly on the map with a click
• entered manually with their coordinates.

The route planner shows:

• for each leg true course, nowind, from overhead to overhead time of flight, distance
• total distance, total overhead to overhead, nowind time.
• an estimate of the gas you'll need

Besides, it provides you with :

• a direct access to Notams for each leg between ICAO airfields.
• a map of the route showing airfields along your route to prepare a diversion. They appear with color coded markers, according to their caracteristics.
• a direct link to the destination airfield card.

Where to land ?
You're going to Chambord castle or Stonehedge and don't know where to land ?
Nav3000 will tell you where are the nearest airfields. Tell where you wanna go. Your destination should appear in the window. If it does not, be more specific, give more details (country, region..., or use the local langage name for the place you're searching. Go then to step two and Nav3000 will show you on a map where you can land.

Aeronautical night
The beginning and end of the aeronautical (Civil) night. Between thses moments, you may fly day VFR. The result is accurate to the minute. It is done according to the official definition of the aeronautical night : sun at 6° below the horizon. It's a real astronomical calculation. You can get these schedules for each airfield in the database, including those of the Southern hemisphere: :

• for a specific date.
  You can then choose between the aeronautical night, the sunset and sunrise, or even the nautical and astronomical nights.
• for a whole year.
  The result then appears in a conveniently printable timetable which you'll be able to pin on your flying club's walls. From december on, you get the schedules for next year. You can still get the schedules for any december day using the calculation for a specific date.

Units conversions
For most units useful to pilots.

Drift, crosswind, density-altitude, horizon
Which heading should you keep, given your speed and the wind direction and speed? How far can you see a VOR with no obstacle ?

Aeronautical events calendar
A free calendar to advertise fly-ins, aerial meetings, gatherings, and so on.... Events also appear on the corresponding airfield card. Add an event.

Game
Will you guess which airfields appear on the pictures ?

Last updates
List of the most recently added or updated cards, sorted by countries.

Last pictures
The last airfields pictures added to the site. There is a link to this list on the "Last updates" page.

Add a picture
Which kind of pictures ?
Nav3000 already offers satellite pictures of all the airfields vicinity. This feature is rather meant for pilot's eye views of airfields, taken during a fly over or an approach.

You can add a picture using the update form for the airfield. Therefore, to add an airfield picture:

• search its card
• click on the button "update' at the bottom of the card
• click on "add a picture" in the form
• choose the picture on your hard disk
• click on "add the picture" to upload it.

You can upload files up to 3 Mb.
BEWARE :
- if there is already a picture for this airfield, you'll be warned. You'll then be able to choose either to overwrite it with your own or to cancel the process.
- If you want to, don't hesitate to add your name on the pictures before you upload them.

Notams and Flights plans
Link to Olivia, official civil aviation provider of Notams for France. Unfortunately, Olivia has no Notam for countries out of Europe. I'm trying to find a way to provide South African and Canadian pilots with Notams as well. Flights plans from and within France can be filled up on the Olivia server.

METARS & TAFS
Simply enter the ICAO code to get the latest METARS and TAFS.

Useful links

Threatened airfields
This page is in French only and only deals with French airfields... yet. If you have information about a threatened airfield in an other country and would like to use this page to let other pilots know, maybe organize something to defend the airfield, contact me.

Contact
To contact me.

The Forum
Divided into two sections : French and English. Each of them includes two rooms to discuss our passion : flying.

• General : anything about aviation, aeronautics, piloting, learning to fly....
• What I learned from that : you can post anonymously there to tell us about mistakes or what went wrong during a flight, so that we could learn from your experience.