35 minutes ago, BrammyH said:

I think there are some bugs with how the perf calc fields are not editable, so it's possible at some point you can edit them.

That said, why don't you use simbrief? It's pretty much the standard for airline flight planning.

Oh, well, I remember I've written a post about why I still prefer PFPX over SimBrief somewhere on the internet some time ago.

I had a ton of different things that are imho better in PFPX than on S/B without thinking too much about it.

Some of them are:

- World Map showing everything I need for planning, (like METAR, sunset and sunrise data, aerodrome operating hours, wind, NAT Tracks, etc)

- I can define aerodrome operating hours for every airport

- Preferred runways: for example, in LOWS, you have got ARR15 and DEP33 for all IFR traffic up to 10kts tailwind. PFPX suggests DEP33 up to this limit and DEP15 when exceeding 10kt tailwind component. And many more airports have preferred runways.

- Company NOTAMS: very very important for me as I note everything related to the airport I'm flying to those company NOTAMS. For example, scenery limitations (gates blocked by static aircraft, TWYs not existing in the scenery that exist in R/L), airport specific information like to contact GND after vacating the RWY without any notice from TWR or after DEP switching to APP w/o handoff from TWR. Some airports have got transponder mode C on GND... and so on...

- I can save routings with information about stepclimbs, mandatory semicircular rule FL changes by 1000ft, I can define whether the route is odd or even etc...

- When computing a flight, I get an OFP which I can just copy to the right side to the scratch pad and edit values in there. For example when PFPX is giving me a RELEASE FUEL of 13596kg, I edit it to 13600 or 14000, 'cause I can't stand odd numbers.

- custom OFP templates: I created a custom OFP template with just the information I really need for the flight in order to just have to print just a single sheet (yes, I still print my OFPs, 'cause I need something to write on anyway..)

- simbrief sometimes causing troubles when flying online, because it suggests you routes sorted by popularity. Not by making sense or being CFMU valid 😂

See this thread about flightplanning with simbrief: https://forums.vatsim.net/topic/32344-dont-use-simbrief-or-any-other-flightplanning-tool-blindly/#comments

- I can track my fuel consumption and get a fuel bias value for every airframe, which leads to spot on fuel predictions for further flights.

- Calculated flight times are extremely accurate. On a 3h flight, my flight time is never off more than two or three minutes from what PFPX estimated. I tried simbrief for some time and found those times being less accurate.

I could go on for another hour but you get the idea I guess 😊
 

I know that simbrief is widely used mainly because of it being very comfortable just loading a flightplan into an aicraft EFB but for me personally, PFPX has many features that simbrief still does not offer and therefore PFPX is the way to go 😉

16 minutes ago, Stearmandriver said:

There was a bug when trying to edit certain values in the tablet using the on screen keyboard; be sure you're using your physical keyboard when trying to change values.

That said, not everything is going to be editable.  They're reading sim runway data and you're not going to be able to override a lot of it, because that would be a bad idea.

None of the runway data comes from simbrief or Navigraph.

Thanks for the hint, just tried it but didn't work.

I tried CYDF via the physical keyboard I've got on my desk but still, I can only enter "airport name" and choose a RWY condition from the top down menu and nothing else (just like with the on-screen keyboard).
When clicking on "Runway ID", it looks like the line _______________m gets thicker just as a drop down menu would open, but I see nothing more..
 

See the "less thin" line under -SELECT-?

5 hours ago, Konterhalbe said:

Thanks for your reply!

Ok, wow, I'm gutted...

Absolutely not usable for people who don't want to use simbrief.. 😅🙈🙈🙈
It took PMDG years to develop an EFB in which you can't even just put the airport values in by your own... don't know what to say..

have  you tried  doing the  factory  reset  option

Provided you have a flight plan in the default location for PMDF flight plans in MSFS2020 you can absolutely use the UFT without simbrief.  The only thing is the EFB tool is of no use but the Performance tool is for calculating take off and landing settings.  All you have to do is import your flight plan from the CO Route setting in the FMC and you are good to go.  I do things this way for flight plans I have created in Little Navmap and saved in the .rte format to the MSFS2020 default PMDG Flight plans folder.

 

so much easier  using  simbrief   since its  free,  plus  you can import  it  to  little  nav map if  you want too

8 hours ago, pete_auau said:

have  you tried  doing the  factory  reset  option

I gave it a try and resetting options did the trick for me!
I was able to fill in an ICAO for departure, select a runway and calculate my takeoff performance.

Happy about it, I've tried to fo landing calculations while still in climb out of my DEP airport and I had the same issue again on landing performance 🤪😂😂😂
Did another factory reset and landing calculations worked again.

 

Seems like in order to get T/O and LDG calcs done, I need to reset the Navigraph EFB every time before doing so.

On 11/3/2023 at 5:59 PM, BrammyH said:

That said, why don't you use simbrief? It's pretty much the standard for airline flight planning.

Hello, I'm using sometimes Simbrief, sometimes PFPX since there is the Topcat integration with performance calculation and with WX2PFPX a weather update is working well but I wonder why the PMDG UFT is not programmed to work with it, at least is able to import a flightplan from MSFS itself, or did i miss something in the UFT settings?  And no - I dont think that Simbrief will be freeware for all the time since the integration into Navigraph. Best regards

Edited November 5, 20232 yr by cseu
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3 minutes ago, cseu said:

And no - I dont think that Simbrief will be freeware for all the time since the integration into Navigraph. Best regard

sim brief  has  been  intergrated  with Navigraph  for  a long  time  now and  will remain  free

2 hours ago, cseu said:

Hello, I'm using sometimes Simbrief, sometimes PFPX since there is the Topcat integration with performance calculation and with WX2PFPX a weather update is working well but I wonder why the PMDG UFT is not programmed to work with it, at least is able to import a flightplan from MSFS itself, or did i miss something in the UFT settings?  And no - I dont think that Simbrief will be freeware for all the time since the integration into Navigraph. Best regards

Simbrief is free and will always be free according to the developer.