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Download Aircraft Spotting at the UK's Airports and Airfields for Google Earth and SatNavs For just £5.00 you can download the file that will add placemarks to Google Earth to help you plan your trip. I have placed the information displayed on the main webpage into Google Earth to help give you a real idea of where you are going and how to make the most out of your trip. The fee is per download, so any subsequent updates will again require the fee - details of each new release of the file will be displayed below. Please note, in certain parts of Northern Ireland and Scotland, the satellite coverage is minimal at best and therefore I have had to estimate the airfield's position on the map - this is indicated on the satellite map and there are only a few. The directions on my site however, are still accurate and should be used in conjunction with this file.Google Maps is run from your web browser at http://maps.google.co.uk. To use Google Earth, you must have already downloaded and installed it. If you don't already have Google Earth this is a fantastic free download that initially gives you a satellite image of the globe for you to rotate. You can then zoom in and see, in incredible detail, cities, towns, villages, even roads and houses from any place in the world. As I said, Google Earth is free, you should download it here and check it out. This file can also be uploaded to your Satellite Navigation System (SatNav) - again making planning your journey even easier and saving you time on the roads. I have added a marker for all the smaller airfields to show the entrance of the airfield. This will improve the accuracy of your SatNav directions and ensure you don't waste time getting lost, or trying to find the entrance. With the Spotting Points of Interest in Google Maps, Google Earth and your SatNav you now have some fantastic resources to take with you on your trips, allowing for far more flexibility and more airfields visited. To use the downloaded file on your SatNav, see the instructions below. Good examples of this service are shown below, with the download and installation instructions further down. Here at Cannes Airport, France, you can clearly see the runways, terminal, viewing areas, hotels, the preserved Beech 18 and a couple of markers to help you navigate the smaller roads round the terminal area to get views of the ramp. The blue path from the terminal to the southside viewing areas and hotel is the route you need to travel by car. You can zoom in a lot closer than shown, or you can zoom out to show an overall view of the airports in this file. On the left side of the Google Maps screen shot you can see the various different placemarks for Cannes Airport. Clicking on one will highlight on the main map. Scrolling up and down in the left hand section will reveal all the other airports that are plotted on Google Maps. Looking now at the Google Earth screenshot, on the left side of this screenshot you see a little over half the airports available in the France file - once the file has been loaded into Google Earth, scrolling up and down in this section will reveal all the other airports. KEY: Aircraft - airports, airfields, airbases, often close to the main hangars and where the aircraft park Green star pointers - Viewing areas Yellow star pointers - Preserved/stored aircraft White star - Entrance to airfields Beds - Hotels and Resorts Blue paths and pins - routes to viewing areas R - Runways M - Museums T - Terminals H - Hangars A - Aprons Cameras - Photo spots White - Points of interest for guidance All the information plotted is available in text form on the main page and should be used with these plottings. 
Please note, due to the limitations of Google Maps (imposed on it by Google as it runs in your Internet Browser), only 200 Points of Interest markers will show up. Therefore in larger files such as Spotting in the UK, not all markers will show up. There are no such restrictions on Google Earth and the files will work perfectly with it. This does not affect the smaller files with less than 200 Points of Interest markers - these will work in Google Maps, as well as Google Earth. 
Downloading and installing the file into Google Maps: Before completing payment please add my email address "krayzeekris@hotmail.com" (without the quotation marks) to your address book and your list of safe senders, or your email provider's equivalent. You must do this first because an email will be automatically sent to your email address with download instructions and most email providers will mark this as spam and/or junk because of the automated process. Adding my email address will ensure the email gets through to your inbox. Once payment has been confirmed you will be sent an email with instructions on how to download the file. If you don't receive this email immediately, please check your junk and spam mail folders. If you still can't find it, please email me. As I'm not always on hand to make an immediate reply, you can visit the Log In page, enter your PayPal email address and click 'Sign In', leaving the password field blank. At the next page, 'Login Failed', enter your PayPal email address and click 'Please email me my password'. Your password will now be immediately sent to you, but will only get through the spam filters if my email address is saved in your contacts. Visit the website in the email or click the link provided and enter your email address used in the transaction (this is in the email). Also in the same email is your password to access your newly purchased file - you must copy this exactly or highlight, copy and paste. Now you can log in and download your file. Once the file has been downloaded you can save it to any folder you wish. Visit Google Maps and sign in using your Google Groups and/or Google Mail email address and password. If you haven't registered with Google before, it's free, quick and easy to do. Once logged in, click 'My Maps' near the top left of the screen - it's in the horizontal light blue bar. Click 'Create New Map' below it and then click 'Import' - located next to where 'Create New Map' was previously. A box will now appear asking you to import map data from a KML file. Click browse and you will now need to locate the folder you have saved your downloaded file in. Click it to highlight it, and then click 'Open'. Now click 'Upload From File' and wait as the map is filled with a maximum of 200 placemarks as I explained above. The information displayed on the main webpage is as up to date as the information I receive or from my own personal trips, it is correct to the best of my knowledge and it is this information that I have placed into Google Maps to help you plan your trip. If you can update, amend or add anything please email me. Downloading and installing the file into Google Earth: If you have already downloaded and installed the file into Google Maps, please skip to the paragraph below as you only need to download it once. Before completing payment please add my email address "krayzeekris@hotmail.com" (without the quotation marks) to your address book and your list of safe senders, or your email providers equivalent. You must do this first because an email will be automatically sent to your email address with download instructions and most email providers will mark this as spam and/or junk because of the automated process. Adding my email address will ensure the email gets through to your inbox. Otherwise, read on. Once payment has been confirmed you will be sent an email with instructions on how to download the file. Visit the website in the email or click the link provided and enter your email address used in the transaction (this is in the email). Also in the same email is your password to access your newly purchased file - you must copy this exactly or highlight, copy and paste. Now you can log in and download the file. Once the file has been downloaded you can save it to any folder you wish. Load up Google Earth and click 'File' and then click 'Open'. You will then need to locate the folder you have saved your downloaded file in, click it to highlight it, and then click 'Open'. The file will now appear in the 'Places' section in the left hand section of Google Earth. At the moment, it's showing under the 'Temporary Places' folder - this means that each time you load up Google Earth you will have to open the file manually, as described above. If you would like the file to always show all the placemarks automatically, you will need to move the file up into the 'My Places' folder. To do this, click and hold the file, drag the mouse upwards until it is over 'My Places' and release the mouse button. Now click 'File', move the mouse to highlight 'Save' and a new menu will appear to the side. Click 'Save My Places' and this will always display the locations. Please note this file has been created using Google Maps and Google Earth version 5. Whilst this file will work with Google Earth version 4, I strongly recommend that you upgrade for free to the latest version, as using version 4 will mean that a couple of placemarks will be slightly away from where they are meant to be. This is unavoidable but their correct position will be obvious. In the unlikely event that one of these incorrect placemarks is a hotel, it could give you a misleading idea of where it is in relation to the airport. Regardless of what version of Google Earth you use, the information displayed on the main webpage is as up to date as the information I receive or from my own personal trips, it is correct to the best of my knowledge and it is this information that I have placed into Google Earth to help you plan your trip. If you can update, amend or add anything please email me. Using the file in your Satellite Navigation System (SatNav): Once the file has been downloaded using the instructions above, you can use it in your Satellite Navigation System (SatNav) either by manually entering the co-ordinates, or if your SatNav has the ability to upload files, follow these very simple, easy and quick instructions. First you have to convert the file to the correct format for your SatNav and this is free, easy and very quick. Visit POI Editor, click 'Load POI File', (just to the right of the centre of the screen) and click browse. The kml file is in the folder (or your Desktop) you use when downloading from the Internet, click it and then click 'Open'. Then click 'Load POI'. Any paths/routes that have been mapped out (for example showing the route to walk from one place to another) will appear at the top without a description - this is normal. You can scroll down the list to find all the other points of interest. Next click 'Save POI File'. You can now set a name for the file and the file type (or format) that you want it saved in, for example OV2 for TomToms, CSV for NavMan and Garmin among others and other options including ASC (ASCII), GPX and LMX (Nokia). Click 'Download POI', set the location of where you want the file saved and click 'OK'. Once downloaded, refer to your SatNav manual on how to upload the file and use it. This file is wholly owned by me and may not be shared, sold or distributed by any means of communication or in any form of publication. By downloading the file you agree to abide by this and to use this file solely for your own personal use. FAQS & Troubleshooting
Version 1.1 Due Summer 2012: ADDED: Bideford-Lake Heliport, Devon Bovington Tank Museum, Dorset Greenford-Vanguard Storage Stored, Gt London Handcross-Wings World War Two Remembrance Museum, Sussex Hixon Stored, Staffs Langwathby Helipad, Cumbria Llanfyrnach-Classic Ultralight Heritage, Wales Lossiemouth, Moray Lowestoft Helipad, Suffolk Marksbury-Hamburger Hill Paintball Stored Over Dinsdale Preserved Preserved & Stored Aircraft in Aberdeenshire (1) Preserved & Stored Aircraft in Berkshire (1) Preserved & Stored Aircraft in Cambs (1) Preserved & Stored Aircraft in Gt London (1) Preserved & Stored Aircraft in Hants (1) Preserved & Stored Aircraft in Kent (2) Preserved & Stored Aircraft in Moray (1) Preserved & Stored Aircraft in Oxfords (1) Preserved & Stored Aircraft in Shetland Islands (1) Preserved & Stored Aircraft in Sussex (1) Preserved & Stored Aircraft in Wales (1) Preserved & Stored Aircraft in Yorks (2) Scatsta, Shetlands Topcliffe, Yorks Treswell-Forwood Farm, Notts UPDATED: Barton, Gt Manch Beccles, Suffolk Belfast City, N.Ireland RAF Benson, Oxfords Birmingham, Warwicks Blackpool, Lancs Bournemouth, Dorset RAF Brize Norton, Oxfords Coventry, Warwicks Cumbernauld, N.Lanarks Denham, Bucks Dundee-Riverside Park, Dundee City Dunsfold, Surrey Duxford, Cambs East Winch, Norfolk Fairoaks, Surrey Farnborough, Hants Gamston, Notts Glasgow, Renfrewshire Headcorn, Kent Heathrow, Gt London Hibaldstow, Lincs Humberside, Lincs Insch, Aberds Kemble, Gloucs Kidlington, Oxon Kinloss, Moray Lee-on-the-Solent, Hants Linton-on-Ouse, Yorks London City, Gt London Luton, Beds Lydd, Kent Manchester, Gt Manch Manston, Kent Mildenhall, Suffolk Netherthorpe, Yorks North Denes, Norfolk Northrepps, Norfolk Norwich, Norfolk Prestwick, S.Ayrshire Redhill, Surrey Rochester, Kent Sellindge-Harringe Court, Kent Southend, Essex Staverton/Gloucester, Gloucs Woodford, Gt Manch Yeovil, Somerset Yeovilton-Fleet Air Arm Museum, Somerset REMOVED: G-MJUH Tiger Cub, Flix Bar, Girvan - following the Flix Bar's closure, G-MJUH was removed, its location remains unknown - can anyone provide details please? XT914 Phantom has left RAF Brampton's gate and is to be restored at RAF Wattisham Kirknewton-Latch Farm, Edinburgh City - following a hangar collapse in Dec '10, airfield closed and most residents were damaged and removed for rebuild. Strip operational again but just one resident now -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 1.0 Released 28/4/11 contains over 600 locations listed with viewing locations, hotels and preserved aircraft where known: ADDED: Aboyne-Deeside Activity Park, Aberdeenshire Alcester-King Stoughton, Warwicks Ashcroft, Cheshire Balado Bridge, Perth & Kinross Bentwaters Airfield & Cold War Museum, Suffolk Binbrook Stored, Lincs Birlingham Collection, Worcs Blair Atholl, Perth & Kinross Boston-Wyberton, Lincs Brentor, Devon Brenzett Aeronautical Museum, Kent Bridport-Middle Pymore Farm, Dorset Camphill, Derbs Capernwray Diving Centre Stored, Lancs Challock, Kent Chipping, Lancs Cholmondeley-Pageant of Power Helipad, Cheshire Coningsby, Lincs Conington-Main Hall Farm, Cambs Corsham-Wadswick Manor Farm, Wilts Croft-Oven Bank Farm, Lancs Currock Hill, Northumberland Dirleton-Archerfield Estate, East Lothian Elkington-Woodside Farm Helipad, Northants Exeter-Middlemoor Helipad, Devon Fairford, Gloucs Felixkirk, Yorks Hadleigh-Benton End Farm Gunsmoke Paintball, Suffolk Hawkinge-Kent Battle of Britain Museum, Kent Hooton Park-The Aeroplane Collection, Cheshire Hulcote-Brook Farm Helipad, Beds Hullavington, Wilts Ilmer-Shrove Furlong Farm, Bucks Kemeys Commander-Little Trostrey Farm, Monmouthshire Kenley, Gt London Lakenheath Air Base, Suffolk London Battersea Heliport Long Mynd, Shrops Lyveden, Northants Margam-Old Park Farm, Glamorgan Mona, Anglesey North Luffenham Stored, Rutland Northrepps, Norfolk Norton Juxta Twycross-Cottage Farm, Leics Odiham, Hants Old Malton-Eden Camp Museum, Yorks Predannack Air Base, Cornwall Preserved & Stored Aircraft, Bucks Preserved & Stored Aircraft, Cambs Preserved & Stored Aircraft, Cheshire Preserved & Stored Aircraft, Cornwall Preserved & Stored Aircraft, Derbs Preserved & Stored Aircraft, Dorset Preserved & Stored Aircraft, Essex Preserved & Stored Aircraft, Fife Preserved & Stored Aircraft, Gloucs Preserved & Stored Aircraft, Gt London Preserved & Stored Aircraft, Hants Preserved & Stored Aircraft, Herts Preserved & Stored Aircraft, Leics Preserved & Stored Aircraft, Lincs Preserved & Stored Aircraft, North Lanarkshire Preserved & Stored Aircraft, Notts Preserved & Stored Aircraft, Renfrewshire Preserved & Stored Aircraft, Shrops Preserved & Stored Aircraft, Somerset Preserved & Stored Aircraft, Staffs Preserved & Stored Aircraft, Sussex Preserved & Stored Aircraft, Wales Preserved & Stored Aircraft, Warwicks Preserved & Stored Aircraft, Yorks Rhos Hill-Rhos y Gilwen Farm, Pembroke Rivar Hill, Wilts Shrivenham-Sandhill Farm, Oxfords South Lambeth-Imperial War Museum, Gtr London Southampton-Solent Sky Museum, Hants Sparkford-Cadbury Business Park Helipad, Somerset Stored & Preserved Aircraft, Oxfords Talgarth, Powys RAF Ternhill, Shrops Ripe-Kittyhawk Farm, Sussex Tangmere Military Aviation Museum, Sussex Ulster Aviation Society Museum, N. Ireland Warfield-Ashley Farm, Berks Wattisham Air Base, Suffolk West Walton Highway-Fenland & West Norfolk Aviation Museum, Norfolk Weybourne-Muckleburgh Collection, Norfolk UPDATED: Belfast City, N. Ireland Belfast International, N. Ireland Bembridge, Isle of Wight Benson, Oxfords Biggin Hill, Kent Birmingham, Warwicks Blackpool, Lancs Boscombe Down, Wilts Bournemouth, Dorset Cambridge, Cambs Carlisle, Cumbria Charlwood Scrapyard, Surrey Coventry, Warwicks Cranfield, Beds Cranwell, Lincs Davidstow Moor, Cornwall Defford-Croft Farm, Worcs Dunstable, Beds Eggesford-Trenchard Farm, Devon Errol, Perth & Kinross Glasgow, Renfrewshire Gatwick, Sussex Guist-Holly Hill Farm, Norfolk Halton, Bucks Halfpenny Green/Wolverhampton, Staffs Heathrow, Gt London Henstridge, Somerset Hucknall, Notts Humberside, Lincs Hurstbourne Tarrant-Bourne Park, Hants Keevil, Wilts Langport-High Ham, Somerset Lasham, Hants Leeds-Bradford, Yorks Leeming, Yorks Leuchars, Fife Linton-on-Ouse, Yorks Liskeard Heliport, Cornwall Little Staughton, Cambs London City, Gt. London Longbridge Deverill-Wing Farm & Galaxy Microlights Workshops, Wilts Lower Upham-Phoenix Farm, Hants Luton, Beds Membury, Berks Middle Wallop Air Base & Museum of Army Flying, Hants Mildenhall, Suffolk Mintlaw-Easter Nether Cabra Farm, Aberdeenshire Moreton-in-Marsh Training Establishment, Gloucs Netherthorpe, Yorks Newcastle, Tyne & Wear Newquay, Cornwall North Denes Heliport, Norfolk North Weald, Essex Norwich, Norfolk Nottingham East Midlands, Leics Oaksey-Park Farm, Wilts Oban-North Connel, Argyll & Bute Pocklington, Yorks Postling-Pent Farm, Kent Preserved & Stored Aircraft, Cornwall Preserved & Stored Aircraft, Lancs Prestwick, South Ayrshire Rochester, Kent St. Albans-Plaistows Farm, Herts St. Athan, Glamorgan Sandown, Isle of Wight Sandtoft, Yorks South Scarle-Beeches Farm, Notts Southampton, Hants Southend, Essex Stansted, Essex Staverton, Gloucs Sturminster Marshall-Newton Peverill Farm, Dorset Syerston, Notts Tattershall Thorpe-Lodge Road, Lincs Thurrock-Kings Farm, Essex Upavon, Wilts Welshpool-Trehelig, Powys Weston-on-the-Green, Oxfords Whiterashes-Pittrichie Farm, Aberdeenshire Winsford-Ashcroft Farm, Cheshire REMOVED: G-ATKG Hillier stored in Northumberland. Reports from 2009 say this has now gone G-MANT C210 has gone from Great Yarmouth sea front. Present location unknown N5834N RC114 wreck gone from the field in Wentloog Daresbury-Newton Bank Farm, Cheshire. Airfield closed Kington-Upper Yeld Cottage, Herefords. Microlight collection moved to a location in Wales. Confirmation and directions are requested please Jurby, Isle of Man Swinford, Leics. Airfield closed, site now a wind farm development -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 0.5 Released 10/6/10 contains 530 locations listed with viewing locations, hotels and preserved aircraft where known: |
