Yes, thx Molleh I just spotted that checkbox.

Disregard that. Runway length is the key.Can I suggest you place the Airport selection icon above the Aircraft icon. Assuming we follow a Pilots natural workflow and work down, it might be better to select where we want to fly and then give us the choice of what aircraft are available.What I'm doing right now is having selected an airport with a very long runway, I'm editing all aircraft parameters to enable me to see them at airports with shorter runway lengths. Your default settings have aired very much on the conservative side. ie you have set a B752 range at 2300nm when it commonly does Transatlantic flights.

The whole thing about IF with the fuel and ETA calculation is; it's there for you to do; you set those parameters yourself. Most of the stock aircraft have reasonable parameters to start with, but they all need tuning. You may want to have your baron 58 climb initially at 1000fpm, and may bring the ascent speed up.Also you will want to settle your addon aircraft into a cruise at a typical speed, with a typical load, and get the fuel report, so you can get a good range setting. And all the rest is there at your fingertips. "It's getting into IF" :-)Steve

IF encourages you to fly to your next location, not teleport. Besides, the UI needs to be illogical and eccentric. lolSteve

I use FSC as well, not managed to import a plan yet from that. If I use Plan-G it will import no problem..G

I suppose you could convert your FSC plans to XML by loading and saving in FSX until IF gets its act together...

I suppose you could convert your FSC plans to XML by loading and saving in FSX until IF gets its act together...

It would probably make more sense to load and save in Plan-G rather than FSX. Will give that a shot when I get chance...G

I find it's easier to export from FSC to FSX. Then open that file in FSX Flight Planner and re-save. It still is a pain though having to shrink the windows explorer window small enough to drag the PLN across to the main IF Window.I set the winds 170 at 20kts at Innsbruck and had a great Glider session Steve. Cloud and ridge effects were great, especially with Aerosofts LOWI which enhances scenery and that huge vertical face.Just completed that YPKG - YBAS flight and was severly lambasted for exceeding max pitch -40%! eek, and max G -10%, I think. Neither of which I did in a B752. The seatbelts and no smoking i'll hold my hands up to :)

I find it's easier to export from FSC to FSX. Then open that file in FSX Flight Planner and re-save. It still is a pain though having to shrink the windows explorer window small enough to drag the PLN across to the main IF Window.I set the winds 170 at 20kts at Innsbruck and had a great Glider session Steve. Cloud and ridge effects were great, especially with Aerosofts LOWI which enhances scenery and that huge vertical face.Just completed that YPKG - YBAS flight and was severly lambasted for exceeding max pitch -40%! eek, and max G -10%, I think. Neither of which I did in a B752. The seatbelts and no smoking i'll hold my hands up to :)

You can edit the Monitor Files to make it easier. There's help, see index: Monitor Files.Also a lot of items are settable in the mission page: Monitored Functions.Thank you Dean for trying out a proper soaring sesh! It's great having the marriage of thermals and wind deflections in a seamless way, rather than having regular thermal collumns scattered around. Watch out on landing, you can get caught out by sink just outside of warm airports![rc] out soon, lots more already, see report page on the site...

Steve,A problem with a PLN that has the same Dep / Dest airport. When loaded, IF strips out all the waypoints in between.A short Glider flight around Orbx's new YPMQ -YPMQ PMQSF PMQSH PMQNI KMPNH YPMQ

Steve,A problem with a PLN that has the same Dep / Dest airport. When loaded, IF strips out all the waypoints in between.A short Glider flight around Orbx's new YPMQ -YPMQ PMQSF PMQSH PMQNI KMPNH YPMQ

Hehe, yes well spotted, good one Dean, many thanks for that! Will rectify for next update.Steve

Hey Steve,Is there a way to get IF to not add the top of climb/top of descent waypoints to the flight plan? In my PMDG MD-11 for example, the FMC can load FSX flight plans directly (saving the time of typing all the waypoints out if I don't feel like it) but the IF plan does not load, I'm guessing because the MD-11 doesn't recognize the TOD/TOC waypoints properly and spits out the plan.Thanks!Molly :)

Hey Steve,Is there a way to get IF to not add the top of climb/top of descent waypoints to the flight plan? In my PMDG MD-11 for example, the FMC can load FSX flight plans directly (saving the time of typing all the waypoints out if I don't feel like it) but the IF plan does not load, I'm guessing because the MD-11 doesn't recognize the TOD/TOC waypoints properly and spits out the plan.Thanks!Molly :)

I think the Citation X has the same problem as well... ...G

Hi,To avoid TOC/TOD, choose "Plan Type"; Ignore TOC/TOD (flight gen page at the top)Steve

Hi,To avoid TOC/TOD, choose "Plan Type"; Ignore TOC/TOD (flight gen page at the top)Steve

Thanks Steve, will give that a shot when I next jump into the "X"..G

Thanks Steve, will give that a shot when I next jump into the "X"..G

Haha, not sure how I missed that, a blonde moment I guess...

codelegend.com has forums where you can find one for Ideal Flight:http://www.codelegend.com/forums/index.phpAny questions, suggestions, worries, or ask anything at all, please use the codelegend forums.Special gratitude to Dean_EGTC for help setting that up, thanks Dean, thanks to AVSIM for hosting this thread, and thanks to everyone that chipped in, cheers guys!Best regards;Steve