does anyone know if there is a utility of some sort where you could go to any continent i.e Europe and see a list of Airports and the destination to other airports so you can get an idea of the distance you have to travel for example say you only have a 737 and not sure of the distances and airport codes. this would be a good tool for pilots who like to fly in other continents but not familiar with the cities and distances amongst them.

http://www.aeroplanner.com/ has a nice (free) distance calculator which will give you the straight line distance between two airports. This site will generate a flightplan using real airways for anywhere in the world:http://rfinder.asalink.net/free/I'm not sure if this is what you are asking for or not, but hopefully they are useful!

thx i already have a good online flight planneri was more of the view like an excel document where you could see airports and destinations where 737's fly.

There are a few approaches that might work for you:If you have a specific airline in mind, they probably have a flight schedule on line that for any departure city shows the departure time, aircraft type, arrival time, and distance. I took some work, but I imported sections of the published Northwest Airlines .pdf schedule into Excell from my local departure point. This allowed or sort such as you suggest.If you get rid of the default AI plans and install either Ultimate Traffic 2 with the addition of the latest schedules, or a bunch of airline installs from ProjectAI, you can install the freeware AITM with the version 2 update, decompile, and then based on the generated flightplan use their search report function to generate and sort based on aircraft type. Be aware with AITM that it may appear to hang at times, but it it just taking a while to crunch the huge amount of data. AITM can also install downloaded flightplans from PAI or MRAI sites. AITM if you generate an airports.txt file from your decompile of your FS9, and you move it to a specific airline project folder, add the flight plan you downloaded which also should contain an aircraft text file for typing, can then generate a report of the type you are requesting. Pick a large airport, it will come up with a timetable, then sort by aircraft type. I have not used the utilities in UT very much, but it may also generate those types of reports. UT2 is a good starting point for loading many international flight schedules based on real world traffic. Its only weakness lies in the cargo schedules but those are available on the sites mentioned or in the AI Traffic libraries of the popular download sites such as here.Search for threads on AITM here and you will get info on the download site and its strength and weaknesses. I used it a lot before UT2 was available and still use it as a report generator and to add additional plans.

hithx for this tipbut how did you import the timetable to excel from a pdf file?

In Acrobat Reader I used the Text tool to surround each table of interest, copied, then pasted special into Wordpad as unformatted text, as I recall. I then saved it as a text file, reopened it, cleaned it up.The "words" each represented a field seperated by spaces which Excel will import as an ascii delimited file with the end of line representing end of the row.I still had a lot to clean up such as extra row headers, etc. I was working, however, with one departure area so it wasn't too bad.Now if you want to homebrew an Excel import for an AI flight plan including an Aircraft text, you should be able to build on one worksheet a table of aircraft, import maybe as comma delimited that flight plan onto another worksheet, and build the third worksheet based on the common aircraft number field -- I think. Also, I do not know if the leg distances are kept in the raw plan so since you want distances that could be an issue. However, the times for each stop are there and that may be of more interest in your particular pursuit.For me, it was easier to use AITM to import all and then generate the desired report.I also purchased two books that may be of interest to you. They are two volumes of the Pilots' Free Flight Atlas. One volume covers USA, Canda, Mexico, Carribean. The other covers Europe, South Africa, Middle East. There are political summarry maps and topographical maps. The latter maps show airports (classed by runway length and type), navaid locations and frequencies, major roads, major landmarks, location name, waypoints, and a magnetic compass pointer for the general area. I got these recently and have been turbo-prop flying around the Canary Islands. I use these volumes in conjunction with the Simplate 2004 bundle for airport info, approach plates, etc. The atlases enable me to figure out enroute nav without having enroute charts for (in my case) areas outside the USA.Each volume was $26 US and a Google search will turn these up at a pilot shop convenient for your area local or on-line.In your case, you could look up a departure area of interest and using the distance scale you could estimate destinations within the range you desire. Your flight planning application will give the exact headings and distance, but topographical info will give you an idea of the minimum altitude required. The scale is 1:2,000,000 but it is accurate enough to get you in the general area of your destination. The high scale still has the detail needed for enroute yet gives you an overall view to pick your destination within desired limits. Many would consider these as a luxury but I really like having such printed copy in front of me when figuring out the next adventure, and plotted navaids and waypoints save me the need for enroute charts to create of plan with more than a departure direct to destination.