XC-Planner is "dead"

August 10, 2020

The popular route planning website XC-Planner has stopped working. But there are some alternatives that have something very similar to offer. This is what the XC-Planner looked like when it was still working. // Source: Screenshot Tom Payne's XC Planner has provided many XC pilots with valuable services over the years when it came to planning their routes and FAI triangles with just a few clicks of the mouse using online maps and then entering the corresponding waypoints transfer your own instrument. But the XC-Planner is now history. While the airspace display has not worked for a long time, the entire functionality of the website has recently become unavailable. This has to do with the fact that XC Planner was based on cloud computing software, the version of which is no longer supported by Google. If you are now inevitably looking for alternatives to the XC-Planner, here is a small selection of possibilities (without claim to completeness): - FlyXC.app: very similar to the XC-Planner in terms of look and feel. - ThermiXC: route planning including various thermal maps. - Seeyou.cloud: Seeyou's route planning tool is available free of charge. - Meteo Parapente: the popular Meteo page also offers its own route planning layer - Waypoint Editor: no route planning tool, but good for defining many waypoints

This article has been translated for your convenience and was originally written in alemão.