If  any of  you guys are interested  some one  at  pfpx  forum has  done  2 complete tutorials on how  to use  the  planner etops  as well, its well done

http://forum.avsim.net/topic/421665-etops-tutorial/

Well I have to admit the installation went well, the set up is ok but I'm struggleing to find where the saved flight plan went to and how to load it through RC4, I managed to load a flight plan to the PMDG737 as for ease of set up it seems pretty intense so I guess it will take a while but it does seem it has an awfull lot of information to give out, I wiil certainly look at etops tutorial posted by Pete as it probably explains it more in laimans terms as I think the user manual is not completely user friendly but all in all Vaughan it looks like a full package.

 

Cheers Rod.

Rfinder.asalink.net/free/

simroutes.com

departedflights.com

fuelplanner.com

Just used fuelplanner from KSFO to EGLL.  It said I needed total fuel of 209,000 lbs.  I landed with 45,000 lbs remaining.  Grossly inaccurate!  almost tempted to buy PFPX but too expensive for me at this time...I'll have to live with it I guess. 

Just used fuelplanner from KSFO to EGLL.  It said I needed total fuel of 209,000 lbs.  I landed with 45,000 lbs remaining.  Grossly inaccurate! 

 

Nice reserve. I don't have to pay for fuel in MSFS, so I wouldn't mind.

 

And the page only offers solutions for an airplane type and not a rendition. The base calculations are hence pretty generic. You can submit your own fuel consumption data after a flight if you install the client.

 

Or you do everything with pen, paper and a calculator.

Skyvector.com

 

Assuming you have other sources for Sid and star charts, it has all the basics you really need for the actual route planning portion. Enroute high and low that cover the entire globe, and it can now overlay weather, wind barbs, airmets, sigmets, TFRs, icing, turbulence areas, etc. In fact I recently interviewed with a small airline whose dispatchers actually use it to plan their flights. And it's free.

 

Then I put the route into FSBuild to get a fuel burn estimate. I'm thinking of switching to something else for that because its usually not accurate and I often end up dipping into my reserves if I take the amount it suggests.

Could someone advise me if RC4 can connect with flight plans from PFPX or not?

 

Cheers Rod.

If PFPX can export a flightplan to the default FSX/FS9 format, then yes. 'Cause that's what RC can read.

I'm obviously doing something wrong cause RC4 is unable to find the flight plan thats been created or I've saved it to the wrong place, I'll battle on.

Hi,

 

Payware option : PFPX

OK, got to the point where frustration is setting as I CAN"T even export a flight plan to flight simulator X files nor PMDG FLIGHT PLANS keep getting told that the path is wrong!! so what would the path look like? I'm beginning to think I'm dummer than I look but it can't be that hard, would anyone like to help me out please as two day's is long enough.

 

Cheers Rod.

There are similar topics on the official AeroSoft PFPX forum.

 

First you select the location of your FSX installation and documents folder (normally you do this only once). Then the plugins folders are relative to these folders.

 

Currently you have to select the product you want to export to and the select save/export. You have to do this one by one for all the files you want to export.

Thanks for that but I'm sure that I've done that process a few times to no prevail, maybe I should step away for a while and start again, thx

 

Cheers Rod.

Rod,

 

Just checking ... is it getting better .. doing flight plans etc?

 

Have you set up any PFPX profiles yet?

Good morning Vaughan, (as it's 7.00am here), to answer your question yes it's all good now, setting up profiles was no problem, set up as many aircraft profiles as your like, as I mostly do long haul flights I have set up PMDG-NGX,T7, 747-400 that part is straight forward, the only issue I was haveing was I was unable to get the expoting of flight plans to go down the correct path as when you click on the export icon and select browse you click on the top browse icon not the side one (stupid me), I use active sky evolution as a weather engine which interface's fine, when you export a flight plan you do it to both FSX Files to get RC4 to read the flight plan (if you use RC4) and to PMDG (or what ever aircraft you prefer) type in the fmc scratch pad the same route plan that is in your PMDG flight plans folder eg:YPADYSSY01 and select co-route in the fmc and it's all good. It is a very comprehensive program and once it's set up it is good. Practise will bring reward. 

 

Cheers Rod.