Folks,

 

I'm looking for some advice on finding a decent flight planning software package that would include High/Low IFR/VFR mapping that is printable as part of the brieifing package for the specific flight I'm flying in say PMDG or Airbus X.

 

Does anything like this exisit? I see that PFPX shows the waypoints along with enroute winds, but looking for the charts as well.

 

Thanks in advance!

 

You might have to use several programs:

 

VFR flight planning: Plan-G (freeware)

IFR flight planning: PFPX or Simbrief (freeware, but you need a Navigraph subscription if you want current AIRAC cycles)

Charts: Aivlasoft EFB (payware; I believe they offer a demo version)

or fltplan.com for North America, various sources for the rest of the world. You will find resources on regional Vatsim servers, for instance.

 

Cheers,

Peter

Same as Peter said + Online Flight Planner freeware.

 

http://onlineflightplanner.org/%C2'>

 

 

Cheers

Ian

I've been using Aivlasoft's EFB for many years now and I'm very happy with it!

Thanks folks!

As someone mentioned I think there's a trial version of EFB and I highly recommend you try it out. Personally I would feel blind flying without EFB now that I'm used to it and especially when flying online when you often get inbound clearances etc from ATC rather late. Then it's really great with EFB which will let you look up and/or change STAR and approach in a couple of seconds while at the same time allowing you to see the arrival and approach visually and continuously track your current aircraft position on the moving map.

 

I consider EFB one of my best investments for FSX.

As someone mentioned I think there's a trial version of EFB and I highly recommend you try it out. Personally I would feel blind flying without EFB now that I'm used to it and especially when flying online when you often get inbound clearances etc from ATC rather late. Then it's really great with EFB which will let you look up and/or change STAR and approach in a couple of seconds while at the same time allowing you to see the arrival and approach visually and continuously track your current aircraft position on the moving map.

 

I consider EFB one of my best investments for FSX.

 

I think I may try the EFB, as I think I can use my iPad as a second screen and run it off of that, which would be pretty sweet! Has anyone had any experience doing this?

Not sure if there's support for tablets, I run EFB on a second computer with its separate screen.