fly.dsc.net

[WorkingHard]

Anyone tell me what happened to this wonderful site please? Is there an alternative?

[Fuji Abound]

NATS reluctance to provide the data me thinks, and no, there is nothing quite the same.

[whirlwind]

Try here: Introduction | VFR Route Planner | goFLYING

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[172driver]

workinghard, you beat me to it - wanted to start the same thread. What a pity! The site referenced by whilrwind is - at least at first glance - nowhere near the same. Btw, what does NATS have to do with it ??

[Fuji Abound]

NATS provide the NOTAM data. I think they changed the format of the data and as a result it was not as "easy" to farm the data.

[IO540]

I don't think there was ever an easy way to get the standard raw data (commercial/political considerations prevent its being available); one has to grab it from the official end user site and then parse it, and every time the format changes you have to rewrite the software, and there is a limit to how much of someone's life somebody is going to spend keeping a free service online.

[Miles Magister]

What did you get from flydscnet?

[Twiddle]

fly.dsc.net provided European flight planning as well.

[Fuji Abound]

I don't think there was ever an easy way to get the standard raw data

I didnt mean to imply it was ever necessarily easy but in another place I though the author also said the changes made it even harder to farm the data?

I agree anyone doing this for free would eventually conclude their time could be better spent - sadly