Dinners, Dives, and Airport Greasy Spoons

[Ventucky Red]

Has there every been a collaboration to list out some of the favorite airport restaurants or ones that we frequented in the past?

Over the years it has been hit or miss for me...

 

[mscard88]

Yes, someone on here does that. Search around and you'll find the thread. Or maybe they will pop up.

 

[BillTIZ]

Look in the "Cool places to fly" section.

 

[Cogito]

Ventucky,
If you find such a list, please post a link. I wish ForeFlight would add an Airport Restaurant chart overlay like they have for 100LL, instead of prices they could post number yelp stars.

 

[OkieAviator]

I like this site-- http://www.fly2lunch.com/

 

[GeorgeC]

Ventucky,
If you find such a list, please post a link. I wish ForeFlight would add an Airport Restaurant chart overlay like they have for 100LL, instead of prices they could post number yelp stars.

Until they add one, I made one: https://www.pilotsofamerica.com/com...t-airport-restaurants-foreflight-layer.94927/
It's easy enough to scrape a restaurant list e.g. from fly2lunch and import it.

 

[SkyDog58]

http://www.funplacestofly.com/

 

[rk911]

I like this site-- http://www.fly2lunch.com/

a quick look around my home field (KARR) shows several errors...restaurants that have been closed for a number of years. that's the problem with these lists...keeping them current.

 

[SkyDog58]

a quick look around my home field (KARR) shows several errors...restaurants that have been closed for a number of years. that's the problem with these lists...keeping them current.

I believe they rely on pilots to not only provide new listings but to also keep the information current so....

 

[Bonchie]

We got lucky today coming into KBMT this morning.

It's free BBQ day and it was excellent.

 

[ircphoenix]

a quick look around my home field (KARR) shows several errors...restaurants that have been closed for a number of years. that's the problem with these lists...keeping them current.

Send the page owner an email. He corrects it pretty quickly.

 

[OkieAviator]

a quick look around my home field (KARR) shows several errors...restaurants that have been closed for a number of years. that's the problem with these lists...keeping them current.

That stinks... I typically call first though to make sure.

 

[Unit74]

Adventurepilot.com

 

[BillTIZ]

I like this site-- http://www.fly2lunch.com/

Thanks for that!

 

[Cogito]

Until they add one, I made one: https://www.pilotsofamerica.com/com...t-airport-restaurants-foreflight-layer.94927/
It's easy enough to scrape a restaurant list e.g. from fly2lunch and import it.

George,
This trick is amazing. When I load your text file and change it to: user_waypoints.csv and import I get only on-field restaurants in the northeast. I'd love to do this for the whole country, and update it periodically, can you possibly explain how to: "grep ^APT APT.txt | awk -F '\n' -f parseNFDC.txt >id_lat_long.txt"

 

[GeorgeC]

I needed a way to make a table of airports and their lat/long coords, join it to a table of airports and their restaurant names, and then massage it into something ForeFlight could understand. I speak grep/awk/sort/join so that was the easiest way for me to do it. I just used the commandline on a Mac, but any unix-like system, or Windows 10 with the linux subsystem, or cygwin will do.