TopCat and PFPX are doing completely different stuff, but if you have TopCat, data from PFPX will populate TopCat for seamless co-operation. Google the latest PFPX video, it shows this in practice.

This is where i got the impression that "only" a would be possible with the first release version.

This just in from the official forum: PFPX will do wind optimized routes. I have to say that PFPX is starting to look good!

How much Longer! Please.

This just in from the official forum: PFPX will do wind optimized routes. I have to say that PFPX is starting to look good!

Kinda good indeed! I am especially impressed and intrigued by all the youtube videos made by Gary McGinnis on how PFPX correlated to real world practices. I know already that I will use and be able to correctly interpret only a fraction of all the info in the reports PFPX produces!

This might help a little more to see PFPX capabilities.  This file here with permiission from AoA support, is from the AoA 737 Flightwork training Flight#2 from Rotterdam to Innsbruck. Information overload at first and a lot of paper and ink if printed is super detailed especially for FSX.

Personally I only printed the fuel  burn pages and kept the rest on the tablet. 

 

http://db.tt/AjJYf1T8

Hello Dave,

 

I'm desperate to learn more, so here goes. Do you mean that the winds are taken into account:

 

a) when calculating an "optimal" flight level for a given route

c) auto generated route will be different based on projected winds aloft

c) both a & b?

 

If the answer is either b or c, then I have misunderstood something. On the official forum a member of the beta team mentioned, that "A lot of additional things would need to be added to PFPX to do winds routes."

 

This is where i got the impression that "only" a would be possible with the first release version.

I dont have the program but I saw it somewhere that under advanced options or something that the route can be more based on for best winds as opposed to shortest route.  Take a look at the PDF I posted and the last few pages it has the weather and winds information. I dont know if that particular route was done with the winds option selected however. 

I saw it somewhere that under advanced options or something that the route can be more based on for best winds as opposed to shortest route.

You are absolutely correct! When I first posted (on the 20th) the only auto routing modes (made available to the public) were AUTOL (low) AUTOH (high). A day later a new auto mode was demoed (AUTO+) which allows for wind optimized routes (and many more).