Hi there,Can anyone tell me were I can:a) Find real world weather reports and predictions so that I have as much WX info that real airline pilots do for my longhaul flights and,:( Which flight planning software do you recomend? It must be able to show me airways, be able to create waypoints anyware I want them (for NAT PLOTS) and must be able to export this to Radar Contact. Fuel predictions would be great as well but they MUST be accurate!!!!!!Also, being easy to use would be a bonus, and if the printouts looked professional that would be great also!Thanks for your helpric

hello ric,in aviation everything is possible it depends how much you want to pay.......!!!! dont get me wrong but even proplanner are expensive to buy then to get a weather feeding (monthly cost)around 19.95 USD and the initial for jeppesen flitestar pro if worlwide is 998 euros and if you want they can feed datas and create datas for any aircraft but you have to provide the datas to their services and this is only 499 USD...!!!!http://www.jeppesen.com/now maybe you can ask for an online planner...but even that is not so a bargain for a simmer....http://www.uvflightplanner.com/pricing.htmlAccess to Flight Planning Services and Text Weather In addition to the Flight Planning Services in Option #1, Option #2 includes access to all Text Weather such as: - Worldwide TAFs, METARs and NOTAMs- Text Warnings and Advisories- Upper Level Text Winds- Windstar Route Briefings $29.95per monthFlight Plans (Full Plan Pricing includes Prefile) # of Plans/mo. Full Plan Summary Plan 1-20 $15.00 $13.00 21-50 $13.00 $11.00 51-100 $12.00 $10.00 101-150 $11.00 $9.00 151-200 $10.00 $8.00 201-more $9.00 $7.00 now on the sim market there is some that can be helpful for youfsbuild2.0 29 euroshttp://fsbuild.com/and a new oneFOC 2003 for less than 50 euroshttp://www.danur.com/and last one a freeware one onlinehttp://www.pmflightplanner.com/ im registered but not often using it....so it s up to you and of course the time you want to take to learn those wonderful tools.... about fuel burn and accuracy it depends how much datas you want to feed...and time you want to take to get datas and exploite them..it took me more than 5 hours yesterday to feed a new 767 datas including etops and rdp into foc 2003...and this only for test for now not final ....there is a link about foc already discussed....http://forums.avsim.com/dcboard.php?az=sho...g_id=3873&page=all my post is not against you but trying to reply your asking and of course maybe not the way you wished...truly yoursphil

Thanks for the help phil, can you check your PM's please?sorry for the delay in replying!

www.pmflightplanner.com is the best free one that I've seen. www.aviationweather.gov will give just about everything you could in terms of U.S. weather.PMflightplanner will build you a route if given the right info, such as SID/STAR and/or entry point. I hope I helped!