Hi folks,Is there a flight planning program that is flexible and capable of generating flight plans for PMDG products?Thanks,Eric Olson

FSBuild 2 can.

I mainly fly in the US, I use Flight Aware to get the actual FAA filed route, Then go to Simroutes.com and select generate flightplan tab, and paste that route into the route box, then enter the departure and arrival airports. You can then compile to different addon programs, or aircraft. And it's free.

Hi folks,Is there a flight planning program that is flexible and capable of generating flight plans for PMDG products?Thanks,Eric Olson

Hi Eric,there's a number out there both commercial and free.For free on the web, here's one I have used before:-http://rfinder.asalink.net/free/Regards,

Thanks gents. That's a big help.Eric Oson

There's also DANUR Flight Operations Centre (FOC). It's fairly advanced but in very much the style of a real dispatch program and it gives fairly accurate results plus does a lot of in-depth calculations that no other program does, such as decompression equal time points etc. It'd only be for the fairly hardcore flight planner though, in terms of its learning curve. I have got to say it is not without its fair share of irritating bugs - but it is very good. I tend to use it for long-rage flight planning, and for short-range I use FSBuild because it is quicker and you do not need ETPs on an hour long flight (plus its in-built 737-800 profile is right on the numbers - it gives the exact same numbers as a real flight plan I have).Cheers,Rudy

Its too bad there isn't a planner out there that will nail you fuel burns for you. Other then FS Build, which requires hours of work to make a performance file, which bye the way I CANNOT FIGURE OUT FOR THE LIFE OF ME!

Its too bad there isn't a planner out there that will nail you fuel burns for you. Other then FS Build, which requires hours of work to make a performance file, which bye the way I CANNOT FIGURE OUT FOR THE LIFE OF ME!

TOPCAT will do weight, CG, fuel, takeoff/landing speed/distance, FLEX temp, etc. for both the PMDG 747 and MD-11.

another good progrmane for finding flight plans and fuel loads is vroute also u can save the flight plan and than load it to ur fms

I use TOPCAT and Flight Sim Commander. They work well creating a trip package that I refer to in-sim with pdf Kneeboard after converting everything into a pdf file.

Its too bad there isn't a planner out there that will nail you fuel burns for you. Other then FS Build, which requires hours of work to make a performance file, which bye the way I CANNOT FIGURE OUT FOR THE LIFE OF ME!

Have you tried copying and then editing an existing one?You should be able to get most needed parameters from an aircraft.cfg.I have not tried it since most of the aircraft I use have similar profiles to what's delivered with the product.