I pull the route from flight aware, use fsbuild for fuel and have the fmc give me v-speeds. Job done and then I crank up the realism when its time to actually fly.

I pull the route from flight aware, use fsbuild for fuel and have the fmc give me v-speeds. Job done and then I crank up the realism when its time to actually fly.

I do the exact same thing, like right now for example, I left KDFW enroute to KLAS with 9.7 tons of fuel at 2300 hrs GMT, I currently just intercepted the DRK VOR my transition entry point for my 25R approach, I will arrive give or take 0.1 tons of my estimated fuel burn and arrive -3 mins off my estimated arrival time, pretty damn close if I say so myself.

Just Bought it and installed it going to test it in the next few days.

No it isn't. I fly a 172; I can (within reason) put another 2 people in with full fuel for a x country and just go, knowing I'll be within limits. No planning required (not that this is what I do, but I could).

 

It really is.  The choice to just rely on "tribal knowledge" or your past experiences as a basis is valid.  Airlines do it all the time.  Heck, traffic management is the same way:

"Why did you set the rate like that?"

"It worked yesterday."

"...no thought added to the fact that today was a unique situation?"

"Nope..."

"Well, don't do that again..."

 

Just because you fly a Cessna doesn't mean you know what you're doing.  That's not meant to be an insult, but I'll be very blunt (it's me, after all):

The airplane I soloed in is no longer around because some dude put "2 people in with full fuel for a cross country, knowing [he'd] be within limits. No planning required."

 

Welp...

 

 

Guess that lack of planning for an airport  3000' higher than you're used to, with a runway that's half the size, with two of your full-sized buddies on a hot day really turned out just fine.  Planning in small planes is wholly different, right?  Performance numbers really don't change much...right?

 

...and yes, I'm ###### because that plane was the one I always took since I've been flying it for ten years.

 

EDIT:

...and yes, the last I checked, the pilot and passengers are fine.

Jeppesen Jetplan...Don't get me started on working that, it's like working with dinosaurs.

 

Jetplanner, jetplan.com or ops control 3 totally different things...

 

Ive worked and trained people to use all three...jetplanner is a good piece of kit if your qualified and know how to use it.

I have a question, hopefully someone can answer:

 

Say for instance I plan a westbound transatlantic route (e.g EDDF to KIAD) I know it will give me my departure route, then my flight plan onto the appropriate NAT. Will PFPX assign the correct NAR and also the correct arrival route from the NAR to the airport? I've noticed that sometimes there are specific NARs that apply to certain NATS, just wonder if PFPX has the ability to recognise this?

 

A lot of acronyms in there!

Does this product run on a separate PC and track one's planned route include AI traffic? (either WideFS or SimConnect or something else)  Similar to how FS Commander does?

 

Thanks, Rob.

Yeah I'm a bit PFPX biased. I'll just let the photo speak for itself...

 

 

Scroll down here for replacement http://forum.aerosoft.com/index.php?/topic/72227-issue-with-the-airlines-codes/

 

Airac update knackers the original

 

Thanks a lot!

I have a question, hopefully someone can answer:

 

Say for instance I plan a westbound transatlantic route (e.g EDDF to KIAD) I know it will give me my departure route, then my flight plan onto the appropriate NAT. Will PFPX assign the correct NAR and also the correct arrival route from the NAR to the airport? I've noticed that sometimes there are specific NARs that apply to certain NATS, just wonder if PFPX has the ability to recognise this?

 

A lot of acronyms in there!

Unfortunately  not an answer but just a comment. I haven't found a way to force the route finder to include a nat track for NA routes. It just creates a route that jumps between different tracks. In one of the tutorial videos on youtube the user created a flight from a European airport to KIAH and the route finder automatically added NAT B so at least at some point it could be done.

 

I like the way you can do it  in FSBuild where you use wildcards. You put in the departure airport and a wild card and after the wild card you insert a route you force FSBuild to include, like a nat track, and the program itself finds a route to the wildcard.

Yeah I'm a bit PFPX biased. I'll just let the photo speak for itself...

 

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Most Impressive

I am testing the program on a KLM427 EHAM - OMDB flight on the MD-11.

 

On TOC i had a 2.1 fuel difference but I used the APU longer then expected.

 

The fuel remaining however is 33.5 in PFPX and 33.4 in the FMC right now. Also the calculated altitudes are spot on right now.

 

What I do find strange though is that on a real life route I need to descend to FL270 according to the program. Is that normal in real life?

It happens from time to time, for a multitude of reasons.

couldn't it be different vertical rules in different airspaces that would require altitude changes ?

I have to say I am quite disappointed that it doesn't ship with the latest AIRAC installed ... not problem for me, I have a navigraph subscription, but I can imagine a lot of people will be dissapointed

I was extremely annoyed by this as well. They advertise a huge route database as being included, but a good chunk of them are invalid as soon as you update to the current cycle. It's really a phenomenal program but Flightsimsoft has a long way to go on the customer service side.