International Airports Now Online

After many months scrubbing data, I am finally confident enough to put the international airports online alongside the US data. There is not as much information out there for the international community so bear with me as the airport pages are modified and tweaked over the coming months.

If you have a good source of data for any international area such as the UK or France, I would be more than willing to talk about an arrangement to get this data supplied on an ongoing basis.

If you see any issues with the data please let me know. Otherwise, enjoy!

International Airports Being Added

Ever since the United States government stopped releasing the DAFIF data to the public, it has been very hard to build a complete list of international airports. I apologize for the time it is taking to get the international airports up on AirportGuide.com but I want to let everyone know that each airport's codes are being verified prior to posting them on the site. There are over 10,000 airports outside of the FAA's jurisdiction so this will take a while but as I always say 'don't waste your time doing it if you don't plan on doing it right.'

To that end, as the international airports are released onto the site, I will be adding the links to the countries on the Browse Airports by Country page. Initially, the list of airports will not be complete for a country but you will be able to watch the list grow over time as I release more and more airports into the database.

If you have any questions about what I am doing, have suggestions on how to speed this process along, or just have a recommendation for the site, please feel free to contact me.

Airmen Database

You can now search for all domestic and foreign airmen registered with the FAA by clicking on the Airmen Search link in the navigation bar. This database will be updated monthly.

Country List Added

A list of world countries has been added to the site to allow airport browsing by country. We are diligently scrubbing data from multiple sources before we make it available online. As data is added for each country, the link on the Airport Country page will become active.

International Airport Update#2

I have been working many long hours on cleaning up the international airport data and unfortunately it was much worse than I thought. Ever since the US government stopped publishing the international data in 2006, it has been a very tedious and laborious process.

So here are the plans for the release. As soon as I can I will be releasing the basic airport data with the name, location, etc. Definitely no frills here but it will be enough to get you the basic airport data. The one thing I must verify first is that the ICAO and IATA identifiers are correct. There have been quite a few changes over the years and I want to make sure this is accurate.

In the meantime, I will be building up the database in the background and slowly adding items such as airport diagrams, approach charts, and other detailed information to the website so check back often.

If anyone reading this has a good for international data that is known to be clean please tell me.

And as always, if you have an aviation product that you think would integrate well with this site, such as a flight planner, please contact me so we can discuss it. I'm always looking for ideas to make this site the best aviation site on the web.

Thanks,
Mike

International Airport Update

I just wanted you to all know that we are probably within one week of releasing international airports on Airport Guide.

Airport Guide "pick of the week" at AirplaneGeeks.com

Airport Guide is honored to be mentioned as a "pick of the week" on the AirplaneGeeks.com September 29th podcast.

Browse Airports by State

You can now browse airports by U.S. state and territories on AirportGuide.com. Give it a try.

Quick Search on every airport page

Added a 'quick search' to all AirportGuide.com airport pages in the upper right hand corner.

You can use the % character as a wild card character.
Examples:
• %abc% will search for anything containing the string 'abc'
• %abc will search for anything ending with 'abc'

Communication Frequency data now online

After 2 days of data massaging, the communication frequency data is on the site.

Check it out and tell me if you like the format.

Worldwide Rail/Train Reservation System added

I just spent the last 14 hours creating one web page that will allow anyone to buy rail passes and tickets for locations around the world.

Flight Planner Partnership Wanted

For our pilot friends out there I would like to integrate a flight planner but don't have the time to create one myself. If there is someone out there that has a great online flight planner and would like to suggest a partnership, please contact us.

FYI, we are always looking for new partnerships. If you have a useful pilot related app or website and are interested in a potential partnership, again, please contact us.

Keep the dirty side down,
Mike

Runway Data Available

The United States runway, waterway, and helipad data is now available. International airports will appear after I finish baselining all of the U.S. data.

Direct Linking

I have created a dynamic, direct linking mechanism so you can direct link to your favorite airport in Airport Guide from your website. Below are some examples:

To link to John F Kennedy airport in New York use the following:

http://AirportGuide.com/id/KJFK

If you are at a smaller airport with only three letters as the identifier such as Hendersonville, North Carolina’s 0A7 just type the following:

http://AirportGuide.com/id/0A7

Keep in mind that the airport_id you use can be either the ICAO, FAA, or the IATA ID*. There are a few instances where an ID may be duplicated between the 3 naming systems. For example, GNB is used by the FAA to identify Granby airport in Colorado while the IATA uses GNB to identify Grenoble St-Geoirs airport in France. In these cases, a list will be presented for you to choose the correct airport. I would recommend where this occurs, that you just go to the page you want and copy the URL directly.

Now for the caveats. There are none. This is all free and no subscriptions are required.

ENJOY!

Mike



* A brief explanation of the IDs used:
ICAO (International 4-letter ID),
FAA (3 or 4-letter ID for the US and it’s territories),
IATA (the 3 letter ID used by the airline association that you see on your airline tickets)

Partnered with Vortex Log

Airport Guide has partnered with Vortex Log to provide pilots visiting this site an online electronic logbook. At only $10 per year this is truly a bargain.

Switched to a faster server

Two weeks ago I was on Twitter and posted a message that I was working on AirportGuide.com. For the next hour, my site was flooded with people resulting in the site being brought to its knees. Since then I have moved the site over to a VPS server (KnownHost) and today I flipped the switch. Everything seems to be working well and the database response times are great!