The Eleventhstreet flightplanner was first released in 2001. It was originally
intended for use by the Los Angeles ARTCC as a signup FlightBoard to promote
inter ARTCC flights and to act as a pilot resource center for California
Screaming. Once the data in the backend grew, a new interface was built to
interact with it solely as a flight planner.
Over the years, use of the application has expanded from ZLA to
include Oakland, Honolulu, Albuquerque, and Oakland Oceanic. On top of
providing services for each of the 9 California Screaming events - the system
has been used during various VA and ARTCC events - most notably Cross the
Pacific2 and two of Denver's Rocky Rumbles.
At some point we set our sights higher and decided to create a system that
could serve multiple ARTCC's as both a flight planning and event booking
system. Early on in the development of Version 3 I learned that another
developer was creating a similar system on the east coast using the same
technologies. SIMATC (still in its early stages) was approached
by Eleventhstreet to see if there was any interest in pooling our
resources to come up with a national solution. SIMATC was not interested in
partnering or working with anyone else for reasons unknown to this day - and
seeing how there was much momentum behind that project we decided not to enter
into direct competition (we in fact provided a dump of all of our data for
their system as a show of support).
The SIMATC torch went out one day without warning, reason, or explanation some
in 2004 leaving many of the large ARTCC's on the east coast without primary
flight planning resources, and pilots wondering where to turn for preferred
routes approved by each of VATUSA's centers.
Version 4 of this flightplanner hopes to fill that gap by providing a NATIONAL
solution or prefered routes for each ARTCC in VATUSA.
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