This forum is managed by shortfield.com, and automatically updated periodically with new topics that correspond to airport updates.

If you haven't yet used it, give it a try, and by all means please update it with information about airports or airstrips that you have recently visited. It's a valuable resource for pilots who need a recent PiRep, or who've never been there and could benefit from an approach/departure video.

In the future, we'll make it easier by automatically syncing your BCP login with Shortfield, so that you can make updates without an additional signup process, but for the time being you'll need to register there to add or update.

If you have a new airstrip that is not charted or in the FAA database, and you'd like it to show up on Shortfield.com, email or PM that information to chrisg.

Thanks for the reminder Zane.
i am terrible about remembering to update, not that i expect alot of "visitors" out here, but you never know
Chris

I am a new user to this site and am confused by the airport symbols used on the Shortfield airport explorer maps. Some airports are indicated with a small open balloon, others with larger open or gray balloons, and others with a circle with an airplane inside. There seems to be no rhyme or reason, to me, as to what these different symbols indicate. Help!

Jim

jiott wrote:I am a new user to this site and am confused by the airport symbols used on the Shortfield airport explorer maps. Some airports are indicated with a small open balloon, others with larger open or gray balloons, and others with a circle with an airplane inside. There seems to be no rhyme or reason, to me, as to what these different symbols indicate. Help!

Jim

Smaller pins are asphalt surface, larger pins are non-asphalt like turf, water, dirt... the kind we like to use. The pins with the Shortfield logo indicate that a pirep/image/video or some community-provided data exists for that airport.

The Kingsley brothers, see New Fly In Restaurant in SW Missouri, are busy spraying. They would be pleased, however, to have their grass strip on your google map. Do I need to get Kiman, the honcho, to sign something?

Hey Zane,

I was looking around at shortfield, and I noticed something strange with the videos for McKenzie Bridge airport. The last two don't really open any video window, when I click in the center of the window that pops up, some binary gibberish pops up. There's FLV as the first three characters so I'm assuming that it's the FLV file source. Anyway, thought you might like to know. I can provide screen shots if you'd like.

You can contact Chris at shortfield.com.

I've fixed the video issues, so that part should be working now. I'll be making several improvements to videos (and the rest of the site) over the coming weeks.

If anyone ever has questions, comments, complaints - contact me directly.

Hey Chris, how is the Pacer project coming along? Hope your well.

Cheers...Rob