March 17, 201610 yr I am of course expecting a 'no', as FS navigator acts as a 'plug in' in FS9, but I thought it worth asking anyway.. just in case. Does anyone know of a way or utility that would allow you (i.e. me) to view an FSN flight plan without having to start up FS9? Just to see the plan on a map is all I am looking for, not to make any interaction with it. Googling didn't help... I could just take a screenshot of each one, in FS9, but I have built up way in excess of 2000 plans now, so that's a bit daunting, to say the least! Thanks. Martin Stebbing, EGLF (UK)
March 17, 201610 yr You might have to export them first, as .txt, .doc or .pdf format for example. Tim Wright "The older I get, the better I was..."
March 17, 201610 yr Author If there's a way to batch export, fine, but I doubt there is. Thanks Martin Stebbing, EGLF (UK)
March 17, 201610 yr Commercial Member I believe "Super Flight Planner" can open an .fsn outside of the sim but it's been forever since I've had it installed and I wouldn't know where to get it. I think SFP 3 is the one you want, there was an SFP 4 which was either solely for FSX or had FSX support, it wasn't nearly as user friendly as SFP 3 IIRC.
March 17, 201610 yr SFP3 can be d/loaded from here. I have no idea if this is legal so it's up to you whether you d/l it or not. Dijvid
March 17, 201610 yr Commercial Member Sure enough: http://library.avsim.net/esearch.php?DLID=&Name=&FileName=sfp303.zip&Author=&CatID= I don't understand why there would be any question on legality?
March 17, 201610 yr Author I have v.4, so installed v.3 as well - but I can't find a way to make the programme open an fsn plan, I just get error messages. Do you know how to do that? Martin Stebbing, EGLF (UK)
March 17, 201610 yr Commercial Member Try Flight Plan > Import and then choose "fsnavigator 4x blah, blah", navigate to your Flight Simulator 9\Modules\FSNavigator\Plan folder and go for it! :smile:
March 17, 201610 yr Author I was trying to import some other way before (can't remember how), but now I look, it's hardly 'rocket science', is it? :smile: I wonder how I manged miss that before. Yes, that works well. The only thing is that the programme doesn't recognise any waypoint names, everything is called 'fix', but for a quick check of an fsn file without having to load the sim, this is just fine. Thanks! Edit: Found the NavAid database online (http://simviation.com/simviation/download.php?ID=563) and with the two files installed into the Windows 'Roaming' folders as instructed, all the Nav Aids/waypoints now have names. Version 4 of the programme works fine showing FSN flight plans... Martin Stebbing, EGLF (UK)
March 18, 201610 yr Sure enough: http://library.avsim.net/esearch.php?DLID=&Name=&FileName=sfp303.zip&Author=&CatID= I don't understand why there would be any question on legality? I was only making a comment - that's all. I haven't got the slightest interest in the software for myself. Dijvid
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