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FSX Flight Planners - AS37 Norm Edwards - 04-26-2012
I'm a recent convert to FSX and i've seen some really poorly designed flight planners out there - wondering if there is anything like/similar to FSNAV of FS9 ilk. FSX flight planner is way too basic for me!
Re: FSX Flight Planners - milo221 - 04-26-2012
Hey Norm,
Take a look at Plan-G. http://www.tasoftware.co.uk/planG.htm
New features in 2.0:
New Airport viewer
New Approach viewer
Add approach to flight plan
Display Victor Airways
Weather reports without FS connection
Relative wind display
New enhanced native ".PLG" file format with support for cross-references, passing altitudes, notes, approaches etc
Sample plans
Sharable bookmarks
Display KML/KMZ files
New Quick Planner
Route Copy to clipboard for VAs, VATSIM etc
Water runways display
Detachable tool windows for expander panels
Actual times recorded (local or zulu) & can be printed on PLOGs
Spot elevations (with optional DEM installed)
Move aircraft to here function
Re: FSX Flight Planners - milo221 - 04-26-2012
There's also Virtual Dispatch http://www.virtual-dispatch.net/
Feature List:
Creates a flight plan for an inserted route in the format ???HEDLY J53 CRG J51 SAV J55 CHS J121 SIE???
Operational flight plan
Map view (requires an internet connection)
Text flight plan (CFMU style)
VATSIM flight plan prefile functionality
ICAO flight plan form
Weather briefing
Airport briefing
SID, STAR and TRANSITION support (based on provided navigation data)
Airport search and information tab including runway data, SIDs and STARs
Calculation of the estimated flight time by the great circle distance between two airports
Quick METAR request function
Easy navigation data update (uses Feelthere/Wilco navigation database)
North Atlantic Tracks provided by blackswan.ch
Links to NOAA weather charts
Link buttons to FlightAware, VATRoute, SimRoutes and rFinder
Cutomized Companies (American Airlines, American Eagle and Cargolux available on the download page)
Virtual Airline Connection Module
FSUIPC Connection Module
Simple GPWS system
ACARS Module to post your position to the web or Virtual Airline
Supported Addons:
Flight Simulator 2004
Digital Aviation Fokker
LevelD 767
vasFMC
Feelthere/Wilco
SquawkBox
Flight 1 ATR
SimAvionics
Re: FSX Flight Planners - JSkorna - 04-26-2012
I also use plan G. It is fun to drag the flight line to make interesting flights.
Re: FSX Flight Planners - milo221 - 04-27-2012
I just remembered there's also Flight Sim Commander
http://www.fscommander.com/
Probably the closest thing to FSnav for FSX, I don't have this one personally.
-Dave
Re: FSX Flight Planners - AS37 Norm Edwards - 04-27-2012
Thanks guys for the suggestions, i'll have a good play with all of them!
