SimFly Active Airports Tool

[Kyndra]

Official download: KyndraRocks/SimFlyActiveAirports: SimFly Active Airports - Distance Calculator and Airport Information

SimFly Active Airports is a browser-based flight planning assistance tool that automatically loads SimFly player-owned airport from the community-maintained SimFly Player-Owned Airports database and lets you look up distances, explore routes between any two owners’ airports, and file directly to SimBrief.

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What it does

Auto-loads the live airport data

When you open the file, it automatically fetches the current SimFly active player-owned airport information.

File on SimBrief

Once you have valid departure and arrival airports entered, clicking the *File on SimBrief opens SimBrief with your select origin and destination airport.

Manual Point-to-point distance calculator

Type any two ICAO codes and instantly get the great-circle distance in nautical miles. Both fields auto-uppercase as you type, and turn red if the code isn’t in the database.

Hover over the airport names to see additional info. Click on the airport names to see the SimFly details page for the respective airport. Once the app is fully loaded, no further internet connection is required.

Owner-to-owner distance matrix

Select any two owners from the dropdowns and the tool builds a full grid showing the distance between every airport pair — departures down the side, arrivals across the top. Click any cell to jump straight to that route in the distance calculator. Click a row or column header to highlight it for easy scanning.

Distance filter slider

A dual-handle slider lets you filter the matrix by distance range. Cells outside the range dim out; the longest qualifying route highlights in yellow.

Distance Map

Visually see the relationships between the airports in the matrix. Honors any filtering you apply to the matrix itself.

Region Tool

Find airports you want to fly between.

Airport info tooltips

Hover over any ICAO in the matrix or in the distance result to see a popup with the full airport name, city, country, elevation, and runway details (lengths, surfaces, lighting).

Weather Integration

Click the cloud button at the top of the UI to grab METARS for all airports currently visible in the UI. Industry standard color indicators make it easy to distinguish between IFR, VFR, MVFR, etc. airports.

Official download: KyndraRocks/SimFlyActiveAirports: SimFly Active Airports - Distance Calculator and Airport Information

[Snoopyd86]

Really nice work man, thank you so much!

[Kyndra]

Thank you! Glad it’s working.

[PandorOne]

Very very nice work Kyndra, really useful, thankyou

[flightsimbrasil]

Amazing tool, tks for dev and sharing

[StarVen]

You always surprise me, you’re amazing! Thank you! Kyndra

[CalibraNR]

Congratulations! This is an amazing tool.

Would it be possible to add filters for airports based on distance, category, and level?

For example, let’s say someone wants to fly from a CAT 2, Level 2 airport to a CAT 3, Level 3 airport located between 800 and 1,000 NM away. The tool could list all airport pairs that match those criteria, or even a selected range, without requiring the user to choose the owners first.

It could then show all possible airports that fit the criteria. Owner information could appear during the pairing step, and pilot sharing information could also be displayed if available.

That would be perfect.

Again, congratulations on a job well done!

[Kyndra]

Thank you @CalibraNR.

While I do not have access to airport levels (only categories) everything else should be possible.

The challenge will become how to handle the volume of airports that might match the criteria. For instance let’s say there are 500 airports which satisfy the criteria. Another hurdle would be responsiveness as there would potentially be many hundreds of airports the tool would have to calculate distances for.

I will certainly consider the ideas though. I am glad you are finding the tool useful.

[Kyndra]

@CalibraNR

For example, let’s say someone wants to fly from a CAT 2, Level 2 airport to a CAT 3, Level 3 airport located between 800 and 1,000 NM away. The tool could list all airport pairs that match those criteria, or even a selected range, without requiring the user to choose the owners first.

It could then show all possible airports that fit the criteria. Owner information could appear during the pairing step, and pilot sharing information could also be displayed if available.

That would be perfect.

@CalibraNR

Prepared to be blown away!

Check out the new “Regions” button in the app.
Still more features and polish to add and some bugs to iron out - already amazing.

[CalibraNR]

That’s a great addition! Can’t wait to test it. Cheers

[Kyndra]

Download the latest version and give it a try.

[alevelezz]

Wow, amazing tool and so useful!! Love it!!!

[Kyndra]

Excellent, glad you’re enjoying it. Be sure to apply updates as they become available, pace of improvement is rapid.

[Volkymaniac]

Hi, Is possible that can you add to the app the an estimated block time of the leg? The distance calculation is very useful, but I think that the time calculation too. Thanks a lot for the app!

[Kyndra]

I could try but I’m not sure how to calculate it. Is there a published formula for all aircraft types?

[antonio.ferrara]

too many factors influence “time” in aviation, block time is useful for companies in order to calculate schedules, ans/or if it is convenient for the company it self. staff members are paid considering block time. I mean every single aircraft or even model has its own block time. it’s mainly based on based lots of historical statistics.

[Benoit0211]

Hi Kyndra,

to estimate my flight time for my B777 (flying at 470kts GS in average), i use this formula :

Flight time = (1+(Distance-350)/470)/24
that do not include Flight preparation and taxi (+15 to 30min)
it consider flying at 470kts + about 45minutes extra for slower GS during climb, descent & appraoch.

I set this formula with the historic of 300 of my flights, and the result matching quite well the real flying time.
Maybe you can try with that for class 7, and with 420kts for class 5 & 6

[antonio.ferrara]

that’s a nice formula, but is not the real definition of “block time” (block time in aviation is the total duration an aircraft is in operation, measured from the moment it first moves from its departure gate (“off-block”) until it comes to a final stop at the destination gate (“in-block”). It covers taxi-out, airborne flight, and taxi-in, and is used for scheduling, crew pay, and fuel planning .

the formula showed it’s a “more” precise formula of the classic T=Distance/Speed.

but as I was writing ,you might just consider the cruise speed of each aircraft, if you want to apply it.