hallo my friends!

 

I am thinking about buying the FSCommander, and I would like to get some feedback concerning this product. I would like to start with a general question:

- What advantages does FSX Commander has in comparison to the standard "flight planer" of FSX?

and being more specific:

 

- ATC Clearences come with this product? can be programmed?

- Is this product compatible with PMDG products and FDC live cockpit?

- What are the limits of this product?

 

Thanks to all!

-FXC has SIDs, STARs and Transitions, that FSX flight planner does not have. You can see those approaches on the map which makes it easy to choose one because you can see how it fits with the rest of the plan. Check out the site for additional stuff like showing aircraft on the map.

- It has nothing to do with ATC and like any flight planner, FSX ATC is liable to give you directions that contradict the flight plan, especially on approach.

- It is compatible with PMDG products and flight plans may be saved in a variety of formats including PMDG.To load the flight plan in a PMDG plane like the 737 NGX, you use the FMC the same way you load any PMDG flight plan. I don't know anything about Live Cockpit.

- Limits? It can't give you any hints on how to cook spaghetti. It requires at least the free version on FSUIP to connect to FSX.

 

Henri

You can take the product for a test spin 30min if I remember correctly

I love FSCommander.

I never use the moving map, but it's there if you want.

It is extremely user friendly. Just open the route window, type in the dep and des airport and either let it make the route or copy/paste a route string from any place like RouteFinder and click "Ok" and your route is ready to fly.

You can also use jetroutes and vector routes in the string, and it will accept them and puts them in when it creates routes.

Just add SIDs and STARs, which will display before you choose one, so you can select the most logical on for your route.

If you want a plan with only VORs, you can type in the dep and des airports and go through and pull the line in the map to make you route from VOR to VOR, which is nice for flying the 707 and older aircraft.

It also saves your route for FSX, FS9, Level D, iFly, PMDG and several others.

It also has a measuring tool that is very handy and gives you distance and heading between any two points.

Weather can be updated and displays on the map with all info for each airport.

I do wish that it gave winds aloft with the weather, that would be nice, but FSCommander is full of features and capabilities.

I mainly use it for the moving map. I have it networked on a laptop this helps me with taxi and seeing AI aircraft.

 

Tom

can you also programmed how the ATC gives you instructions?

As I said above, FSC has nothing to do with ATC, and ATC takes no account of FAC (or not much).

 

One limitation of FSC I forgot to mention is that you cannot put altitude limitations into the flight plan. Of course after you enter it into a PMDGaircraft, you can add any altitude limitations you want in the usual way.

 

Note that another good (and free) flight planner is Plan G. It has STARs but not SIDs, but it has a variety of map styles that are much nicer for flight following than the black map of FSC. Since FSC has a free full-featured demo (you can't save flight plans) and Plan G is free, you can try both nd see what you like best. Both programs also allow you to see all surrounding AI aircraft within an adjustable range. I have both, and use FSC for flight planning and Plan G for flight following.

 

Henri

thanks for the info guys!! it seems like a usefull tool!!

Note that another good (and free) flight planner is Plan G. It has STARs but not SIDs, but it has a variety of map styles that are much nicer for flight following than the black map of FSC. Since FSC has a free full-featured demo (you can't save flight plans) and Plan G is free, you can try both nd see what you like best. Both programs also allow you to see all surrounding AI aircraft within an adjustable range. I have both, and use FSC for flight planning and Plan G for flight following.

 

Actually I tend to do that as well - although I prefer v2 of PLAN-G since it uses Googles mapping !!

 

G

Actually I tend to do that as well - although I prefer v2 of PLAN-G since it uses Googles mapping !!

Version 3 is even better.

 

Henri

I wouldn't be without FSC. Even though I also have several other flight planners, including the great EFB from Aivlasoft, I still run the FSC moving map on a networked laptop. It's beautifully simple to use compared to some, and VERY easy on the eye, allowing for quick 'at a glance' looks without having to take too much data in.

 

Sadly, I the flight community has lost one of FSCs co-authors.

guys is there a good ATC add-on right now in the market? any special recommendations?