I was thinking of taking a look at the PMDG 747 and was thinking dose it come with a built in FMC , Thanks Steven

Yes it sure does. As far as I know most of the systems in a 747 is simulated in this addon. Many regard it as the most complete and advanced addon aircraft in FS history.

Go to their website and you'll see just what is included.

Can you import FS 9 created flight plans, or do they all have to be entered by hand?Greg

By hand with sids and stars in the FMC.

>Can you import FS 9 created flight plans, or do they all have>to be entered by hand?>>GregNot from FS9 but, 'FSnav' has an 'export' facility for that purpose.Note that the export is for the '737ng' but works for the 747's as well.

>By hand with sids and stars in the FMC.If I am not mistaken, it can also load FS9 flightplans.

you can load FS flight plans but you have to convert tham using "PLN to RTE v1.0.1.1" by Alan WL Chan which you can find on AVSIM

Oh and, rarthere than starting a nother thred i am using the 737-800/900 and dose any body know how to do one of these

I can recommend Ernie Alston's FSBuild which has solved the problem for me once and for all. That software works with just about anything out for FS in terms of flight planning features and add-ons (PMDG, LevelD, etc...), and being its sole purpose, is quite good with it this side of Jeppesen software, and includes many features found in real world aviation planning software such as step climbs and the like.Combined with the excellent FMC in the PMDG series, you can't go wrong with either products.EM

Yeah, FSBuild or FSNav will both export directly to the FMC.It also does not take long at all to enter stuff in the way real pilots do. The DEP/ARR page and the RTE page VIA and TO columns make it pretty easy to enter in even long routes - you don't have to type every waypoint in, just the airways and transition points between them.

Its one of the top packages out there with superb customer support. The FMC is fully programmable but for long flight I cheat; flight plan from routefinder; copy and paste into fsbuild and then export into fs2004 and the individual aircraft in one step.This weekend flew 12 hours down to Mauritius and another 12 hours return in a British Airways machine. Everything went perfectly and the plane glided down to the runway at FIMP - satisfying after long flight

Personally I use the flight plans from Flight Aware. Although they do not cover Europe.

If you like to fly big jets, you simply can't go wrong with the PMDG 744. Together with the LevelD 767 it is state of the art for big jets in MSFS.Understanding the FMC and all its options alone will keep you busy for a while and that's only a part of the things which are properly modeled in this package.It is also extremely stable w/o major issues - I have not had a single crash (system crash, that is.. I better not speak about other types of crashes :) ) or other disturbing problem so far and I'am flying it a lot. The only noteworthy thing is that it needs a pretty powerful system, especially when you like to fly in the VC (which is *very* detailed). The PMDG 744 pushes the memory requirements of FS9 to a new level :)If you have a 3+ GHz cpu, 2 gig RAM (i can imagine that with only 1gig, performance may suffer, given the fact that the FS9.exe can eat up to 750 megs after a longer flight with that plane) and a good video card, you'll be addicted for a while, I guarantee. If you can live with the 2d panel alone, a less powerful system should do it.