Hello Just after some advice on the below, is this essentially the correct order of planning I am slowly starting to put all this stuff together 1.) Identify Flight Plan route I use Vroute Premium and FSBUILD2.402.) Identify winds by either passing to Active Sky Evolution weather through FSBUILD or running the plan through Active sky to get enroute winds and weather3.) Use Topcat to work out Payload,fuel,derate etc etc4.) Add Pax and Fuel required into the 737 NGX FMC5.) Add enroute winds into FMC for legs 6.) Go Flying Trying to identify if this is a realistic flow or have I missed something or have it in the wrong order perhaps, many thanks Wayne

This is more or less what I do. Somewhere near the top of the list I would add getting the weather forecast for destination and alternate airports.

thanks a lot for your advice RegardsWayne

Yep, that's pretty much the best dispatch you can do with today's available software. I'd also include the use of nDAC (which I consider a must have).

are the Ndac just charts, Vroute Premium also has all the charts available for a download, i will go check out NDAC also Wayne

are the Ndac just charts, Vroute Premium also has all the charts available for a download, i will go check out NDAC also Wayne

Yes, but NDAC updates instantly with the real AIRAC and not only has procedure charts but actually all the charts related to a particular airport (even the text only ones :). The thing about Vroute is that it feels too "gamy". FSBUILD printouts look exactly like the real master flight plan found in an airliner.

thanks Flexman you are a good guy very helpful Wayne

Thanks. Fsbuild is to flight RWplanning what NGX is to the RW737.