fly.dsc.net
 

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

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

Try here: Introduction | VFR Route Planner | goFLYING

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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 ??

:(:(:(

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.

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.

What did you get from flydscnet?

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

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 :)