Aero Charts
This collection contains all of the Aeronautical Sectional and Terminal Area Charts for the United States, including Alaska and Hawaii. Also included are 3D Airspace Polygons created by Lloyd Bailey, and Flyway maps for 19 major cities. The maps have been merged together to form one large mosaic. The Legends are available by clicking on the Legends radio button under My Places.
These are very high resolution maps and may be slow to load on computers with slower Internet connections. Typically once they start loading, the tiles will begin to update much faster.
A Google Earth Plugin version of this collection is available. This allows you to view these maps in a web browser instead of using Google Earth.
Thanks to Neil Neilson for providing the updated maps to me. He created a version of the Sectionals and TACs for WorldWind. You can visit Neil’s Website Here.
The maps in this collection are NOT CURRENT and must not be used for real-world navigation. They are for educational and simulation use only.
If you need CURRENT aeronautical charts for Google Earth, check out www.chartgeek.com.
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| Original Data From: | National Aeronautical Charting Office |
| KML Content Created By: | GE Library |
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I was wondering if it is possible or you know of somewhere to get these charts for Australia? very useful information . thanks for your time
Sorry. Not sure about Australia. As far as I know, the US is the only country that makes them available in public domain.
“This collection contains all of the Aeronautical Sectional and Terminal Area Charts for the United States, including Alaska and Hawaii.”
It actually does not contain Hawaii. We feel very much left out! (any hopes to have it soon?)
Thanks
Sorry, I thought I included Hawaii. I’ll look into it.
I ordered all the charts from ChartGeek and now I would like to do something similar to the google earth plug in version you have. Can you give me any tips on how to do that? I have the whole web page set up the way I want it and I am currently using your link to the kml files for demo purposes.
I tried the “contact me” link on the plugin page, but it doesn’t work.
Ron
Ron, contact me via the Contact Form (under the About menu at the top) and I may be able to help.
is there any way to have this locally on my hard drive? i have a fast connection and a fast computer but it takes a long time to download and is agonizingly slow to navigate around once they are visible. this is the neatest thing since sliced bread but takes forever to use. thanks
Sorry, there is no way to have these locally on your computer at this time. This issue is simply the size of the files. All together, almost 2 gigabytes. If someone wants to volunteer to host them for offline use, I don’t have any problem providing them. But I can’t do the hosting.
my pilot friends and i also wondered if it was possible to only turn on smaller ‘areas’ instead of the entire 48. maybe list the sectionals by there original names, then you would select just the one you needed – less download time and since the data would be much smaller the cache would hold them and navigating would be much faster and smoother. just a thought. thanks
You might try this…
1) Right-Click on “Sectionals (US)”
2) Check box that says “Allow This Folder to be expanded”.
3) That will let you select the individual grids. You might need to hunt around for the area you’re interested in. A1 is NW, F10 is SE.
Also, not sure how fast your connection is. For me, the maps load in about 3-5 seconds as I pan around to a new area. That seems pretty quick to me.
Go to http://usa-w.vatsim.net/charts/
Go to http://www.airservicesaustralia.com/publications/current/dap/AeroProcChartsTOC.htm