sunset and sunrise times?

[liam548]

Wheres the best place online to look up sunset and sunrise times for UK pilots, is there anywhere you can enter a location and it brings back the official hours of darkness?

[1800ed]

AVBrief - Go to airfield information and type in an ICAO identifier and it will bring up sunrise and sunset times for the AD.

[Piper.Classique]

Try this one

Sun or Moon Rise/Set Table for One Year (http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/RS_OneYear.php)

Avbrief will only give you the sunrise set if you have a paid membership if I remember correctly

[dublinpilot]

If you use a GPS, it may well have it.

PocketFMS does, and I think the Garmin models have it too.

[rans6andrew]

There is usually a chart of the times in the Pooleys/AFE guides. It gives a few key places in the UK for different dates and you can estimate every where else from them. This should be close enough for most purposes.

[liam548]

There is usually a chart of the times in the Pooleys/AFE guides. It gives a few key places in the UK for different dates and you can estimate every where else from them. This should be close enough for most purposes.



I thought id seen it in here but cant find it at all now. Do you know the page number, is it in the 2010 guide?

[S-Works]

Most of the weather apps for things like the iPhone show the sunrise and sunset and often the civil twilight. I use aeroweather on the iPhone that gives them.

[neilgeddes]

time and date .com

timeanddate.com (http://www.timeanddate.com/)

[rjakw]

BBC weather pages or Metcheck or loads of others. E.g. -

Metcheck.com - Global Weather Forecasts - Weather Forecast for Plymouth - [Updated on 17 February 2010 at 8:00] - Weather Feeds - Live Data - Long Range Weather Forecasts (http://www.metcheck.com/V40/UK/FREE/today.asp?zipcode=plymouth)

BBC Weather | Plymouth (http://news.bbc.co.uk/weather/forecast/13)

[LH2]

Have I missed something or is there anything wrong with UK AIP GEN 2.7 (http://www.nats-uk.ead-it.com/aip/current/gen/EG_GEN_2_7_en.pdf)?

[Torque Tonight]

I use this (http://www.mccpilotlog.net/), which automatically calculates day and night time for a given flight. It's invaluable as I'm regularly flying long distances East-West through dawn and dusk. Calculating it accurately the old fashioned way would be a major PITA and making a note of sunset time myself isn't always practical. 20 Euros. Might be overkill for PPL flying though.

[dublinpilot]

LH2,

The trouble with the AIP is it only lists it for 3 locations in the UK.

Of course you can estimate somewhere else based on that info, but why bother when you can get an exact figure elsewhere.

dp

[spekesoftly]

For speed and simplicity, try This Link
(http://www.schoolsobservatory.org.uk/cgi-bin/srs_uk.cgi)

[liam548]

For speed and simplicity, try This Link
(http://www.schoolsobservatory.org.uk/cgi-bin/srs_uk.cgi)


perfect, thanks.

;)