In the past, I've always stuck with real world tools for flight planning for my GA flights.  That used to mean ForeFlight until they bumped prices for their geo-referenced charts, at which point I moved over to FltPlan which is still a "free" service.  Not as many frills as ForeFlight, but still very complete and with full geo-referenced charts that integrate with FSX/P3D, XP and MSFS where I now sim.  A few days ago, I decided to give SimBrief a shot since I'm now using NaviGraph charts with the excellent TDS GTNxi, and the tool supports uploads to the GTN.

My first flight was from KGPI (Kalispell, MT) to KJAC (Jackson Hole, WY).  The recommended route included the SKOTT TWO departure from KGPI.  To my surprise, when I went to brief the departure the FltPlan GO app on my iPad did not have this SID.  It had the two other SIDs at GPI, but not this one and I can't for the life of me understand why.  I wonder what else I've been missing as this has been my primary flight planning tool for years.  All of my US and Canadian charts are shown as up to date.  Very curious.

If anyone has any thoughts as to why they wouldn't have this SID I'd be curious to hear them.

Scott

Not sure, but think it's got something to do with it being an obstacle departure. Shows up in Navigraph, but seems to be a departure which permits a visual climbing turn, crossing the airfield at a minimum of 5600 ft, then on the 313 radial to the FCA VOR. The other 2 sids are normal instrument type departures. But just my best guess. 

On 8/15/2024 at 12:42 PM, Overload said:

Not sure, but think it's got something to do with it being an obstacle departure. Shows up in Navigraph, but seems to be a departure which permits a visual climbing turn, crossing the airfield at a minimum of 5600 ft, then on the 313 radial to the FCA VOR. The other 2 sids are normal instrument type departures. But just my best guess.

That's as good a guess as anything I can come up with.  In any case, one thing this has done is to get me looking at other tools and not be so married to the idea of only using "real world" stuff.  I'm giving simbrief a shot lately and mostly liking it, and I've installed the Navigraph Charts app on my iPad with Simlink on my sim computer and have found I like it better than FltPlan Go.  For one thing, it gives me Jeppesen charts.  I don't necessarily prefer Jeppesen over the FAA charts these days, but they match what I get in the plane on my GTNxi's.  The UI for the app also seems to be well done and mostly intuitive.  My only complaint is that there doesn't seem to be a way to cache charts on the local device, so every new chart load (or reload) has to be done from the server.

As a complete aside and thinking about Jeppesen, I wonder how many here are old enough to remember when US aviation charts were done by NOAA.  Back in those days, most of us viewed Jepp charts as an absolute necessity, particularly when it came to the approach plates.  The NOAA plates where published by region in clumsy thick bound books on poor quality paper, were hard to read and were simply terrible.  Today's FAA produced charts are worlds better.

Scott