Introduction to MapTurtle
MapTurtle helps pilots find places worth flying to — and figure out the practical details once they land. Two pages to know:
The home page — a curated front door
The home page surfaces a small, hand-picked set of featured attractions and featured airports — destinations we're highlighting right now. It's a starting point, not a search. Click any featured card to jump straight to its detail page; click Start Exploring when you're ready to dig in.
The Explore page — the core of the site
Explore is where you actually find things. It's built around one simple paradigm: filter, then view.
- Filter — narrow the world by geography (one airport with a distance range, or a route between several) and by attraction type (categories).
- View on a list — scan the matching attractions, search by name, sort by distance or A–Z.
- View on a map — see the same attractions and their airports plotted geographically.
- Open the details — click any attraction or airport on the list or the map to open its full detail page (runways, weather, and FBOs for airports; hours, contact, and how to get there for attractions).
The list and the map always show the same results — they're two windows on what your filter returned. Desktop puts the filter panel, list, and map all on screen at once; mobile shows one at a time and switches with a bottom pill.
The rest of this guide walks each surface in order — Quick Start scenarios, then a deeper look at Explore, the map, the airport detail page, and the attraction detail page.
Quick Start
Pick a scenario for step-by-step instructions:
The Explore page
Each control on the Explore page, in detail:
The map
Airport detail page
Attraction detail page
Tips & tricks
- 1Locate Me (the compass icon) drops a marker on your current position so you can pick the closest airport.
- 2Click any airport code or attraction name in a popup to open its full detail page.
- 3The list panel has its own search box and a Distance / A–Z sort — use them to scan results without zooming the map.
- 4linkedOnly is the fastest answer to "what's actually on this field?".
- 5Pilot notes contain operational details worth reading before the flight.
- 6All filters live in the URL — bookmark a view or share it as a link.