Hi all,This isnt a question directly about FS9 but I am looking for something to help me find airports when I am flyng.For example, i have a copy of St. Maarten airport which is great and I would like to fly from it from time to time but I do not know what airports are in say 100 -200 miles of it. I would like to find some software that lets you put in your departure airport and then it gives you a list of airports, the size of them (such as international or small) and the distance?Is anything out there that can do this?Otherwise I woudl use Google Earh but I dont think it lists airports by their 4 digit code?

Don't know if this will do what you want, but I find it useful. You can use the Citycodes database to find the airport codes for a particular country and then use the Time distance Calculator to determine how long your flight will be in time and distance. Hope this helps. http://www.airportcitycodes.com/calcform.aspx

Hi all,This isnt a question directly about FS9 but I am looking for something to help me find airports when I am flyng.For example, i have a copy of St. Maarten airport which is great and I would like to fly from it from time to time but I do not know what airports are in say 100 -200 miles of it. I would like to find some software that lets you put in your departure airport and then it gives you a list of airports, the size of them (such as international or small) and the distance?Is anything out there that can do this?Otherwise I woudl use Google Earh but I dont think it lists airports by their 4 digit code?

Use Google Maps in conjunction with the Flight Simulator's map and flight planner. Or one up that and use a third party planner like FlightSim Commander. Find ya a nice island and look for airports, get there names, and start planning! Just use a little ingenuity, as I know of no software that will do what you're trying outside of the "nearest airports" list in your GPS.

If you are using a real world airline look up the airport (or its city and then the associated airport) in wikipedia:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_PageIn your example:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Maarten-P...Int%27l_Airportlists airlines and destinations:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Maarten-P...nd_destinationsthat should give you some ideas for commercial traffic. You can select the airline if you need to know the fleet.Here's a small aircraft airline for short GA hops:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Barth_Commuter# 5 Britten-Norman BN2A Islander.# 1 Piper Aztec PA-23# 1 Cessna 208B

You know, I've been looking for the same thing for years. Really, a flight planner is your best bet. Flight planners come in many flavors and they seem to either grab you or they don't. Some people swear by FS Navigator, others by FS Commander, and still there are many others to choose from. It really boils down to what you like and I've found they end up being almost what you've always wanted :)One flight planner that I've come across, (which ironically has the most minimal flight planning abilities), and yet is easy to us is Co-Pilot. The reason why I liked it was that it's main interface is a map that looks and works like my version of MS Encarta Virtual Globe '98. It doesn't have EVGs terrain data, but it is functionally equivalent. In other words, you can move the world map around with your mouse and see all of the airports, VORs, NDBs, airspaces, and intersections in an area. It's really fast if you want to quickly find all of the airports in an area, some nav data for them and then jump out of the program. Ironically, you'll still need a pen and paper to write down much of what you glean from it.One interesting thing that I do, no matter which flight planner I use, is to manually keep a list of my favorite airports and some nav data to find them. What's interesting about it is that I access the list via the FS9 kneeboard while in flight. I put a standard html link in FS9 kneeboard file to another file I created named airports.html. It's just a simple list of all of my favorite airports and some of their nav data. All I have to do is to open the kneeboard in flight, click on the link I created and my list of airports appear...in the kneeboard. It's a really low tech work around but it's fast, has a minimal impact on the FS9 interface, and once I got the hang of how to do it, is really easy to update and maintain. Dumb, huh...but it works for me!Mark

Chickster25,Search the AVSIM library for a file called Destination Finder for FS9 by Martin Gleeson.

Thanks for all your advice, I will take a look at those packages mentioned. :-)