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Where shall we go. Out to lunch or tea ? How far ? which direction ? what about crosswinds ? Airfield & En-Route Notams ? can't remember all the airfields in detail for runway direction and club facilities. This program answers these questions.

It all started when one day in the club around 1993, Hilly Beavan shows a group of us a chart which she had invented, with airfields plotted out in runway direction and distance instead of the usual map of bearing and distance. It immediately showed those with one runway and a crosswind problem. I thought, this could be computerised, so here it is developed with, by now ( many years later ), a large number of embellishments.. ( The program is now quite complex and runs to book of 221 A4 pages of computer code instructions!)

Choose your base aerodrome then enter the wind and aircraft details then plot :-
1) A map of desired radius (40-240 nm)
2) A plot of runway directions , (example screen "The "Hilly Plot" hplot.gif )
3) Download European Notams from UK-AIS or Northern European Notams from Danish Notam site,
and Download Notams for the next few days from Olivia, ( France & Neighbouring areas ) and see them plotted.

The program attempts to read the Notams, looking for specific words or phrases which helps to decide how the plot should be made.
Types of Notam are identified as are Operating Heights and these are added as text to the plotted area corresponding to the declared radius (nm).
Any remaining Notams not plotted are available as text (usually a few IFR Only Notams plus any VFR with radius > 75nm ) .
All Notam text is converted to Lower Case to improve readability.
Notams with containing multiple Lat/Long are displayed as boxes defining an area or route.
Notam Plotting was first introduce in 2003 and has been extensively developed since that time.

Click on a Plotted NOTAM to see the details. ( Notam.jpg )

Note: Other programs plot Notams according to the Q Line data. This is the only one I know of which READS the Notam and plots the actual radius of the activity, derived from the E line data and labels it with the type of activity.

A Danger Area list is also compiled giving the location in addition to the DG Number to ease identification.

Cross wind limits are shown round the edge of the 'Hilly' plot. Runways within the green arc are within limits in the Runway direction plot.

Airfields plot with NOTAM data for Northern Europe ( UK France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Denmark, Sweden & Norway )
Database For Airfields, NDB, VOR, VRP (allows user additions) for N Europe + Portugal, Spain, Italy, Switzerland & Austria
One click to the airfield website and airfield webcam (if known)
Cross-Wind & Runways Plot.
Click & Flight Plan.
Your entered Airfield Charges and Fuel cost plus your Restaurant quality notes.
Electronic Log Book with Flight Analysis and License renewal reminders.
Pilots Log Form. (Plog) with attached Notams from Airfields en-route, and user added En-Route Notams
Formal Flight Plan form with Print-out ready to fax.
Weight & Balance calculation.

Complied for Windows 95/98 , Win 2000 ,WinXP, Windows Vista.,Windows 7

To Join the Cross-wind Group:-

Fill in the details below to join the Cross-Wind email group which will then allow you to obtain the program files and a password to enable all features. The main purpose of this YahooGroup is to allow me to inform users about upgrades which happen from time to time . User comments are also welcome. ( for those worried about email density, this is a very low traffic density site )

Installation instructions, FOLLOWING your YahooGroups Registration :-

Download the current Version from the top of this page. Files are installed in a "C:\Xwind" directory.

This will overwrite your "UK& Eire.air" airfield database so that any fields/vrps/towns you may have added will be lost, but maybe my database has additional ones anyway.

To preserve your own database and personal additions, Copy your xxx.air files from " C:\Xwind" and save in a safe place for restoring to the "C:\Xwind" folder afterwards.

The Full Install package is here and Update file is here

See Version updates for details

If you have forgotten your Yahoo User-name I can retrieve it for you. Forgotten Password can be retrieved via the Yahoo site.

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Saving & Restoring Notam Files.

Programs for saving and recalling archived Notam files are also on the Yahoo website. The Recall program also contains an archive of some of the 2006/2007 Notams.

All programs on this page are offered free of charge. No advertisements or spyware are associated with this privately written program.
No responsibility by the author is accepted however, for any consequences of their use. Users should confirm in particular, Notam and Airfield data should be checked before embarking on a flight.

AIS & current downloaded (from Denmark ) Notam files data may be viewed within the program.
Links to UK AIS for UK AIP data are also provided.

Aviators, download this FREE Flight Planning & Notam Plotting program to help decide on that flying day out.