Manual flight planning??

[ErnieAlston 33]

>But you must also admit, that FSNav is not a good tool for >manual flight planning. Its at best a very tedious process. >Well, I guess it's what you're used to Ernie.>My usual method is to let FSNav generate the route, check the UK >portion against the UK Standard routing document and amend if >needed and then check the rest of the route to make sure it 'looks >right' and check against any other preferred routings I can find.That's automatic route generation which I agree FSNav does a fairly decent job of.But try and plot a known route without the auto-route generator in FSNav. Trying to find and follow the airways is a very tedious and time consuming process.So even though FSNav very nicely displays airways etc in its map view, they are pretty much useless for flight planning.>To be honest I like the look of the new version of FSBuild, and if I >was convinced of its ability to auto generate a reasonable route for >UK/Europe, albeit with minor modifications, I would probably use it >more than FSNav.Well..it may not be for you then. I placed more emphasis on giving the pilot a way to plot his own route rather than having the program generate it for him.I tend to have a different design philosopy than some of the others in this area.Regards.Ernie.