I just looked at the FAA system provided by Gordy....looked at some of. my old haunts from Alaska days.
Technology is amazing these days but I wonder if we would have gotten anything done had we had access to all this new stuff.
In those days you just stuck your nose into it and went.
My favorite place was Sand Point in the out towards Cold Bay on the Aleutian Peninsula where we were based on Unga Island across the Sound to the west of the airstrip at Sand Point.
I used to utilize the stepping stone method to cross the Sound....as there was a very small island about halfway across....if I could see that I would head on over assuming the Sea Gulls would fly away as I approached the shoreline.
If they would not fly....it was back over the hill to the cook tent for coffee.
Today, with a Sat Link for internet access and the FAA system of today I could call up the weather along the route from Unga Island across the peninsula to the Bering Sea side then along that shore to King Salmon and onto Anchorage via the Pass and across Cook Inlet and know what I was getting into beforehand.
Progress in aviation technology is amazing if you use it properly.