Foreflight Eclipse Map Layer

[jwyatt]

My wife and I were talking eclipse last night, and I couldn’t easily find a Foreflight custom layer for this one, like I found in 2017. So I made one. Sharing in case it may be of use to anyone else. The centerline is drawn, and 30-second bands of duration (starts with purple at 4:00+).

https://semaphore-download.s3.amazonaws.com/Eclipse2024.kml

Data from https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5073, with some massaging and colors to make it pretty.

 

[Winger67]

Funny. I was just looking because at the end of a webinar (I think it was a SocialFlight one) they mentioned an eclipse KML file on the site. I checked and couldn't find it.

 

[L J Donelson]

My wife and I were talking eclipse last night, and I couldn’t easily find a Foreflight custom layer for this one, like I found in 2017. So I made one. Sharing in case it may be of use to anyone else. The centerline is drawn, and 30-second bands of duration (starts with purple at 4:00+).

https://semaphore-download.s3.amazonaws.com/Eclipse2024.kml

Data from https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5073, with some massaging and colors to make it pretty.

Interactive map for the 2024 Eclipse Simulator | Eclipse2024.org

 

[jwyatt]

Interactive map for the 2024 Eclipse Simulator | Eclipse2024.org

Perfect if you want to look at it in a web browser! The KML was of particular interest to me to preview potential airports along the path.

 

[DoJoSwitzer]

Thanks for the data, but not useful without a process.

 

[DoJoSwitzer]

Can the file be edited to load only the portion close (500 miles) to my vicinity?

 

[DoJoSwitzer]

Is this considered a kml shape file?

 

[rwellner98]

Thanks for the data, but not useful without a process.

airdrop it to your iPad, open it in foreflight. No more complicated than that.

Can the file be edited to load only the portion close (500 miles) to my vicinity?

Yep, it's a KML file. Edit it to your hearts content.

Is this considered a kml shape file?

Shapefiles and kml files are different formats.

 

[David Loftus]

Awesome! Thanks so much for posting this

 

[flyingcheesehead]

My wife and I were talking eclipse last night, and I couldn’t easily find a Foreflight custom layer for this one, like I found in 2017.

There is a ForeFlight Content Pack available for this too. This has selectable layers for 4 minutes of totality, 3 minutes, the full path, and markers with times that the totality starts and ends.

2024-04-08 Total Solar Eclipse.zip

Shared with Dropbox

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[MooneyDriver78]

Hmmm, I tried using Garmin Pilot, but it limits KML files to 4MB.

 

[vincechurn]

There is a ForeFlight Content Pack available for this too. This has selectable layers for 4 minutes of totality, 3 minutes, the full path, and markers with times that the totality starts and ends.

2024-04-08 Total Solar Eclipse.zip

Shared with Dropbox

www.dropbox.com

Thanks guys because of you I got these pics