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Prediction Info
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About and Credits

Flight Predictor

UTC/GMT

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Prediction Input

Prediction Name:

Tracker Callsign:

NOAA GFS Forecast:

(yyyymmddhh UTC) Defaults to latest avail.

Launch Latitude:

Launch Longitude:

Auto Launch Altitude:

(From Google Maps)

Launch Altitude:

Feet

Launch Time:

UTC Time

Enter up to 3 altitudes & ascent/descent rates for multiple predictions
(Filling all 9 boxes will result in 27 predictions)

Burst Altitude:

Feet

Balloon is Floater:

Float Time:

Minutes

Ascent Rate:

Feet/Minute

Descent Rate:

Feet/Minute

Auto Touchdown Alt:

(From Google Maps)

Touchdown Altitude:

Feet

Save Text Field Button Target Div

Creating Prediction. Please wait...

Generate aprs.fi Overlay

Enter extra callsigns you want to track. Separate with commas. aprs.fi wildcards are OK
(example: KF7MVY-11,KF7MVY-3,WA0TJT-*)

Show Wind Area

Ruler: xxx.xx Miles

Flight Predictor

Except as otherwise noted, this work is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Special thanks to Keith Kaiser for inspiring this tool as well as supporting its development and testing.

Version: 08-06-2014 Beta

Thanks to the companies and individuals that developed the libraries used in this tool.

jQuery (http://jquery.com/). License: MIT License

jQWidgets (http://www.jqwidgets.com) License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License

GMAP3 Plugin for jQuery by DEMONTE Jean-Baptiste (http://gmap3.net). License: GPL v3 http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html

OpenSave by Mike Gieson (www.gieson.com/). License: MIT License

Papa Parse by Matt Holt (https://github.com/mholt/jquery.parse). License: MIT License

date.js library by Matt Kruse (http://javascripttoolbox.com). License: MIT License

And of course none of this would be possible without Google Maps API v3

Debug Log

This can be used to figure out where things went wrong.
Output goes to Console in Developer Tools.