Honest opinion on flight planners.

[Seme 6]

Hi Brian,

 

One more vote to PFPX. I have it and I love it:) Its all you need:)

 

Cheers

[Brian_A_Neuman 198]

Just completed a 12 hour flight from LIMC to WSSS without problems so I'm gonna sleep on it. Will probably pick up PFPX tomorrow. Thanks for all the input guys.

 

 

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[Parping Couplet 117]

I'd chip in here and say that I've already found PFPX and Aivlasoft EFB to be a tremendous combination. Really gives you the whole picture every step of the way.

 

Interestingly, I note that Aivlasoft is an official partner of Flightsimsoft on their website, so maybe we can look forward to parallel development?

 

PFPX really completes the circle in terms of virtual tubeliner flying.

[JohnsonPBX 8]

Does / did anyone own Flight Operation Center? I've read in some forums it's very good and accurate, but so far no-one in this topic has mentioned it. I had never heard of PFPX before, but judging by the replies it's well worth it. Still, I'd like to hear some opinion about F.O.C. as well.

[Ioan92 63]

Sure PFPX is nice if you want to be extremely accurate, but the cheap way to work this is to:

 

1. Build your route with routefinder or flightaware (if us bound/outbound)

2. check it with simroutes or simbrief and possibly download your route (fsx/pmdg)

3. play with fuel numbers until they are at an acceptable value at destination or use the pmdg manual and calculate it yourself.

[ak657 2]

Sure you can do all the work by yourself, but what I like about pfpx is it takes less than 5 mins to have an accurate flight plan, where it would take me at least 30 to 45 mins, which is why I guess it costs money.

[eNVee 14]

PFPX + OpusFSX + T7. Yesterday I told to my fellow simmers - this combination is scary precise, very easy to use and lots of additional information at your fingertips. I guess its same with any PMDG a/c.

[Airbusman330 300]

If you are going to do plenty of longer flights (6+ hours) then I would highly suggest PFPX and if most of your flights are going to be regional or 4-5 hours max then I would stick with FSbuild or even just a basic fuel planner, I have no plans on using PFPX for my domestic 737 flights (especially since I pretty much memorized the required fuel for my usual routes lol). Just a personal opinion but each to their own.

[paulhand 15]

vRoute and PFPX are different. PFPX is a flight planner, whereas vRoute is a huge collection of routes already planned by someone else. If you want the top of the range flight planner, PFPX is what you need. 

 

Cheers

[_Jerra_ 8]

Paul,

 

The ease if use on FSbuild is fantastic. But on auto routes sometimes it seems to make off plans or have way too much waypoints. I'm looking for fuel planning as well I could figure it out but I guess I am looking for a more real way to plan without spending hours trying to plan it.

 

 

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Ah, OK thanks Brian. I find it great to use too but haven't tried the auto routing.

 

[vc10man 732]

Can anyone clue me into how a plan created in PFPX can get imported into the T7's FMC? At the moment I'm using AivlaSoft's EFB and after I have created the FP, when I try to import it, I get a flag in the FMC, e.g. VRMMOMDB03 that the destination airport is missing and thus it cannot be imported.

[MarkW 1,488]

PFPX has an export option that will export the route in the correct format to many addon aircraft (including PMDG).  Very simple to use.

[vc10man 732]

Thanks, Mark. Will check it out later tonight.

[zmak 331]

Its in the manual and its free.

 

"As an aside for the future, if you want a good idea of how much 

fuel to load, enter your route and then check the PROG page’s fuel prediction for the destination airport – subtract your current load from the amount it predicts at the destination and add 15500 lbs (7000 kg) for alternate/hold and so on and that’ll be a decent estimate"

[JB252 15]

I really like FSC, but I haven't really tried anything else either.