Know this is not the right forum but Mike B. is a beta tester for it and the author of it frequents us PIC lovers here in this forum. Thanks.

Soon.Ernie has finally stopped adding features and is in the final stages of tweaking the documentation and a few small bug fixes. It is just about ready.

Will it be freeware or shareware?Lee Hetherington (KBED)

>Will it be freeware or shareware?It will be shareware/payware, the pricing isn't final yet, but I'm aiming for appox $28 (US).The release date if all continues to go as it is at the moment would probably be before the end of February.See the features page for a listr ogf most of the 2.0 features.http://www.tecpilot.com/users/erniealston/fsb2_features.htmRegards.Ernie.

Ernie has really gone to town with this version...The software is VERY INTELLIGENT.The routes it creates are great.The performance for the PIC is bang on - I am amazed when it calculates my fuel perfectly every time.The support that you will get from Ernie will be top notch, he's not just a developer, he LOVES the software.So many features included it will make your head spin.I think this new version will push FSBuild into the "must have" category of Flight Sim add ons along with FSNav, PIC, and all of the amazing weather add ons.Ian Elchitz CYWG

Will yall stop teasing and just release the software? :-)Why would you need FSNavigator if you have FSBuild 2?

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Man does this sound good!! I assume that it will be able to be updated every month via the Navdata site?

>Man does this sound good!! I assume that it will be able to be >updated every month via the Navdata site?The text data can be updated regularly, but the map data takes a while to create, I haven't yet come up with a process of rebuilding the map data that is quick enough to pass that task on to Richard Stefan yet.So it may be like once every other cycle rather than every cycle for the non-text data. But I shall try and provide updates myself until I can work things out with Richard. They may be a week or so behind the Navdata site though at first.Regards.Ernie.

If I understand it correctly it will show you all SID and STARs in the screen for easy selection. All the planners I have todate, most have sid star routes, BUT either you must know which one you need before hand or you select one and see what it looks like. If it is no the one, you must manually pull it out of the FP. This single feature alone makes FSBUILD unique.Looking forward to it.

Mike,Your understanding is basically correct.When you select the SID/STAR on the menu the routing highlights on the map in red, so you know exactly which route line represents the SID/STAR list item you selected.Then to insert the SID/STAR into the flight plan, you right mouse click, select 'insert' and the STAR is automatically inserted into the Flight Plan. If the flight plan currently has waypoints that the new SID/STAR insertion will overlap, the overlapped waypoints are removed in favor of the inserted SID/STAR's waypoints. So you don't have to manually un-delete stuff the inserted SID/STAR will replaceFsbuild will do it for you automatically.It won't however automatically show all the SID/STAR's in one shot. But you can scroll through the list, and as you scroll through the List each selected SID/STAR will display highlighted on the map in red. Going through the entire list will result in all the SID/STAR's displaying for that airport/runway combination as after each new selection the previously selected SID/STAR route remains displayed on the map un-highlighted.There is also an optional great circle route plot between the Dep/Dest that you can display that will better allow you to determine which SID/STAR is best for the direction of flight.Manual removal is fairly easy as well, delete any one of the STAR waypoints, and Fsbuild will recognize the discountinuity and remove the rest of the SID/STAR waypoints automatically.I will note though because its displaying the SID/STAR waypoints on the fly there sometimes is a slight delay scrolling through the list as it goes into the DB and retrieves the waypoints for that selected SID/STAR. So if you held down the down arrow key and quickly scrolled all the way down the entire list, it would do it, but then you'd have to wait a few seconds for the SID/STAR display to catch up and display all the selected SID/STAR waypoints.This is part of the 'Plan Mode' feature which allows you to manually create a Flight Plan using the Map and the menu's. The Fsbuild Map doesn't look anywhere near as good as FSNavigators, but for Flight Planning the Fsbuild map is much more flexible and usefull for actual Flight Planning.Regards.Ernie.

if you build it... I will buy it!if you autobuild it... I will autobuy it!(sorry, been using your last version for a long time now) :-)

hello all,i agree with ian ernie loves his ware and he puts so option that you can use it for years before pc sims will be better on fuel burn aspect and i talk only about that ...the aircraft profiles are closer than you can imagine even for real ops...this guy is so crazy and i like itphil