Real-time Flight Planner
Explore AOPA’s online flight planning resources
- AOPA’s Real-Time Flight Planner
- Real-Time Flight Planner Features
- Real-Time Flight Planner Tutorial
- AOPA’s Airport Directory Online
- Downloadable NACO digital instrument approach charts
- Preferred terminal routes
- AOPA’s online aviation weather
Plan your flight online in four easy steps
As an AOPA member you can plan your flight online in four easy steps with aviation weather forecasts, AOPA’s Airport Directory Online, AOPA’s Real-Time Flight Planner, and a host of information available here.
Step 1: Aviation weather forecast online
Check AOPA’s online aviation weather, provided by Jeppesen, to assess weather patterns and get the big picture well before departure.
Step 2: AOPA’s Airport Directory Online
Look up airport and FBO information from the most comprehensive online airport resource, updated every business day. Print airport information in a convenient kneeboard format. Now including fuel pricing for thousands of FBOs nationwide.
- Download and print current NACO digital instrument approach charts, featuring reduced file sizes for faster downloading.
Step 3: AOPA’s Real-Time Flight Planner
Plan your route around airspace, current or imminent TFRs, and real-time weather. AOPA’s Real-Time Flight Planner, powered by Jeppesen, is launched from your personal computer’s start menu or desktop. You may download and install AOPA’s Real-Time Flight Planner here.
- For operating instructions and tips, try the online Real-Time Flight Planner Tutorial.
- For pilots who prefer a text-based flight planner and for non-Windows users, we suggest one of these free, government-provided services.
Step 4: Prepare for takeoff
Immediately before takeoff, check AOPA’s Real-Time Flight Planner one more time — for current weather, temporary flight restrictions (TFRs), and other notams — and to file your flight plan. Other helpful links include:
- Anticipated Presidential movement TFRs. Find out about coming TFRs here, before notams are issued and the airspace can be depicted by the Real-Time Flight Planner.
- Know Before You Go, the AOPA Air Safety Foundation’s free online course on navigating today’s changing airspace restrictions.
- Notams and TFR resources
- The Air National Guard’s See and Avoid Web site
- Special-Use Airspace
- International operations
- AOPA’s Handbook for Pilots
For more information on the free online flight-planning resources that are benefits of your AOPA membership, download the Exclusive Flight Planning Resources for AOPA Members brochure (requires Adobe Reader).
Updated Friday, February 22, 2008
