Skyvector Charts

[Anmer]

I was looking at the Skyvector charts last night and was wondering which versions are preferred by armchair spotters?  I've seen a number of posts on other forums asking for these as an alternative to Google maps and satellite images.

Here is the North West of England as World Hi, World Lo and World VFR.

What one is best for website spotting?





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[viking9]

I mostly use the World Hi without the data layers.

[Anmer]

Thanks Tom.

[junglejet]

Same here. And then negative, gray and some color tweaking with Irfanview.

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[viking9]

Hang on - I'll fetch my NVGs. 

[junglejet]

Take off your sunglasses, man 

[milairscanner]

Hi Anmer,

What's the process to be able to use these with BS/Planeplotter ?

Thanks,

Steve

I was looking at the Skyvector charts last night and was wondering which versions are preferred by armchair spotters?  I've seen a number of posts on other forums asking for these as an alternative to Google maps and satellite images.

Here is the North West of England as World Hi, World Lo and World VFR.

What one is best for website spotting?

[Anmer]

What's the process to be able to use these with BS/Planeplotter ?

You can't use them with Basestation.

For PP you need to grab a screenshot, save as an image file and then calibrate as a chart in PP.

Have a look in the PP Help.

[IanH]

I'm using World hi-level as background for PP with 50% transparency.

Calibration is fairly easy: pick some waypoints, look up long/lat from the en route information available here http://www.nats-uk.ead-it.com/public/index.php%3Foption=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=165&Itemid=3.html

, plug those in and calibration complete. Load calibrated jpg into PP.

Need to investigate the "without data layers" option.

Ian

[milairscanner]

Thanks Guys...

Steve