I was wondering if PMDG was going to make a route planner that would allow you to find all the waypoints between destenations, or if there was some already on the market?

You have a lot of planner.

You have this free site that use current cycle http://rfinder.asalink.net/free/

and then there the 2 main planner i know off

FS Commander - payware

FD Build - payware

Look out for this product as well, but its not released yet. http://www.flightsimsoft.com/pfpx/?p=screenshots

I want to add the following website as well. It has almost 120.000 flight plans and the amount is going up. You will definetly find something to fly from there!

 

http://www.edi-gla.co.uk/fpl/

You need to make an account, though.

 

Regards

There should really be a sticky on how to find flightplans/generate them and save them to use to the COROUTE function in the FMC. It always pops up every week.

http://skyvector.com

 

Free, extremely functional, covers the world, and if you are flying in the US, you get all the approach charts as well by clicking on the airport. Oh yeah, also has all the current weather. One of the best sites and planners I've come across in 20 years of simming ^_^

I'm surprised noone has mentioned vRoute (http://www.vroute.net/)

http://skyvector.com

 

Free, extremely functional, covers the world, and if you are flying in the US, you get all the approach charts as well by clicking on the airport. Oh yeah, also has all the current weather. One of the best sites and planners I've come across in 20 years of simming ^_^

 

It's a nice planner for getting information quickly. But there are no options to save, or to export the flightplan to a flightsim program. This limits its usefulness for me.

 

Plan-G is also freeware. Flightplans can be saved, printed and exported. The new v.3 works in FS2004, FSX, and X-Plane.

FSBuild 2 is pretty good as far as actually released software. PFPX looks amazing but who knows when that'll be out at this point.

FSBuild 2 is pretty good as far as actually released software. PFPX looks amazing but who knows when that'll be out at this point.

 

Probably the same time the t7 is released

I like to use simroutes.com, it's free, recommends a sid and star and you can save the flightplan in PMDG format, and put it in your flightplans folder, then you can load the route into the FMC via the COROUTE function.

FSBuild 2 is pretty good as far as actually released software. PFPX looks amazing but who knows when that'll be out at this point.

 

Have a look at the forums, the developer said end of summer/fall.

And they've said something similar multiple times for literally years now. (I know I know, I shouldn't talk given our own record with delays lol...)

PFPX has entered the same category as the LDS 757 in my book. Both are something I was incredibly excited for, but then seemed to drift further and further into a hazy future. At least PFPX has screenshots and (occasional) progress updates.

 

As far as planning...

 

I like flightaware.com for US routes. I then use vroute (paid version) to see if that route is available. If not, I create it and submit it for approval. I find it's fuel planning to be better than anything else I've come across. Plus, the tons of export types, maps/charts. Haven't used FSBuild, but have heard good things. Anyone have experience with both?

 

For non-US flights, i usually just use whichever the most popular route on vroute is, occasionally switching around for appropriate SID/STARS depending on the weather, etc.

It's not really even about routes, on some routes you can only had even or odd FLs or specific flight levels. That's not something you really find out from flightaware. FSBUILD does a good job at finding the correct FL, but it's out dated.