10 hours ago, toby23 said:

Hi Steve,

- The FlightFX Cessna 750 Citation X is already in the database
- I have added the iFly 737 Max 8 and both versions of the ATR.
- I have added both versions of the updated DC6 A/B airframes.
- There are now 66 aircraft in the database.
- I have updated the cruise altitude logic, allowing you to achieve higher cruise altitudes in business jets and jets during longer flights.

This tool is now fully functional and will be updated as and when I have time with new aircraft / airports. All of the database work is manual and I really need to focus on finding a new job.

If you feel that this tool is useful, please show your appreciation via the buymeacoffee link.

Thank you and fly safe. ✈️

v7.6 online

Aircraft included - click to expand

A2A - Aerostar 600

A2A - Piper Comanche 250

Aerosoft - A340-600 Pro

Aerosoft - CRJ v2

Asobo - ATR 42-600

Asobo - ATR 72-600

Asobo - C172 G1000

Asobo - Grumman Amphibian Albatross G111/HU16

Black Square - Beechcraft Baron (Pressurized)

Black Square - Beechcraft Bonanza (Turboprop)

Black Square - Cessna C208B Caravan

Black Square - Piston / Grand Duke

Black Square - Starship

Black Square - TBM850

Black Square - Turbine Duke

Carenado - Beechcraft King Air B200

Carenado - Cessna CT210N

Cowansim - R22 Helicopter

COWS - Diamond DA40

COWS - Diamond DA42

Fenix - A319

Fenix - A320

Fenix - A321

FlightFX - Cessna 750 Citation X

FlightFX - Honda Jet

FlightFX - P180 Avanti

FlightFX - Vision Jet G2+

FlightSimStudio - 727-200 Freighter

FlightSimStudio - 727-200 Passenger

FlightSimStudio - E-Jets 190

FlightSimStudio - E-Jets 195

FlyByWire - Airbus A380-800

Flying Iron - Spitfire

Flysimware - Bombardier Lear Jet 35A

Flysimware - Cessna 414 AW Chancellor

FSReborn - Phenom 300e

HPG - H145 Helicopter

iFly - 737 MAX 8

Inibuilds - Airbus A350

Just Flight - BAe 146 Professional RJ100

Just Flight - BAe 146 Professional RJ100 QT Freighter

Just Flight - BAe 146 Professional RJ70

Just Flight - BAe 146 Professional RJ85

Just Flight - BAe 146-100

Just Flight - BAe 146-200

Just Flight - BAe 146-300

Just Flight - Fokker F28 Professional

Just Flight - PA-28R Turbo Arrow III

Just Flight - PA-28R Turbo Arrow IV

Just Flight - PA38 Tomahawk

Just Flight - Vulcan B Mk. 2

Leonardo - McDonnell Douglas MD-82

Leonardo - McDonnell Douglas MD-88

PMDG - Boeing 737-600

PMDG - Boeing 737-700

PMDG - Boeing 737-800

PMDG - Boeing 777-300ER

PMDG - Douglas DC-6A Cloudmaster (Cargo)

PMDG - Douglas DC-6B Cloudmaster (Passenger)

Skyward Simulations - Citation C680 Sovereign+

SWS - PC-12/47

SWS - Quest Kodiak 100 Series II

Taog's Hangar - Alouette Helicopter

Taog's Hangar - Llama Helicopter

Taog's Hangar - OH6A Cayuse/Hughes 500C

TFDi Design - Boeing MD-11

Thanks very much for adding those. Not sure how I missed the C750 (other than just being old 🙂).

I love watching a lot of these free tools turn into payware, my prediction is we'll see it with this tool as well. Not being negative here, I think it's great and interesting to watch these things morph into something that peeps will pay for. It's economy in action!

I've no interest in it, but looks cool!

Thanks, Kernel. While the tool has evolved quickly, I have zero desire to turn it into payware. I built this over the last week as a personal proof-of-concept. I'm not a developer by trade, so I'm just proud of being able to get it fully functional this fast.

I built this because it's exactly what I wanted for my own simming: 'one-click' routing between high-quality airports, instant SimBrief integration, and a quick scenario to read while MSFS loads. It’s here to help virtual pilots who want immersion but don't have an hour to burn on pre-flight planning. I used to love doing that before I had children but these days I get tired earlier and have less time for my hobby!

I appreciate the message. Even if it's not your usual thing, give it a spin when you have a moment, the workflow might surprise you!

I actually hope it stays as a small single-purpose tool. Not every useful sim utility needs to become a whole product with accounts, installers and a support burden. The browser/local-storage approach is part of the appeal for me: open it, get a sensible short flight, send it to SimBrief, then close it again. That fits the way a lot of us use the sim on weeknights.

Tool updated: 43 iniBuilds MSFS 2024 Airports added to the database.

Wow! Thank you, toby23! What a wonderful utility!

I'm not at my flight sim PC at the moment (sitting on my sofa with my Macbook), but I'll be checking this out later today.

What a great tool! Is there a way to restrict the airports to the MSFS hand-crafted ones? I don't own many other custom airports.

2 hours ago, scottike said:

What a great tool! Is there a way to restrict the airports to the MSFS hand-crafted ones? I don't own many other custom airports.

Hi scottike,

Glad you are enjoying the tool!

Currently, there is no way to restrict the dispatcher strictly to MSFS hand-crafted airports. The dispatch engine calculates realistic flight plans based on target distances and specific aircraft performance profiles.

Because hand-crafted airports are geographically spread out, limiting the database to just those locations would cause the engine's routing math to constantly fail to find a valid A-to-B pairing.

To ensure the dispatcher can consistently generate valid routes for everything from GA to Jets to Helicopters, the database had to be expanded with freeware and third-party developers like ORBX, Contrail, and iniBuilds.

If you want to maximise the chance of flying to a Hand-Crafted airport, and are happy to buy one payware airport, I can recommend using any of the following as a departure airport:

1. EDVK Kassel (Hand-Crafted)

2. Captain 7 - EDDN Nuremburg (Payware)

3. iniBuilds - LOWI Innsbruck (Payware)

4. Tailstrike - LKPR Prague (Payware)

All four of these airports have the highest concentration of hand-crafted airports within a 200-300 mile radius, and the Alpine scenery makes for a great flight.

Toby

Edited Friday at 11:05 PM2 days by toby23

If only Asobo would take notice... This tool seems to cover a few of my main gripes with career mode mission generation: appropriate airports and performance data for aircraft. With a week of actual human man hours and some custom curation of data, you've addressed what Asobo's procedural mission generation system still fails with 1.5 years after launch.

Since I'm usually in career mode this tool doesn't have much use for me, but I appreciate your contribution to the community nonetheless!

Inspired by scottike's message, I have just added a quality-of-life update to the Global Flight Dispatcher.

You can now add a custom Owned Airports Filter in the settings menu. Simply paste in a comma-separated list of the ICAOs for the payware or freeware airports you own. When you enable the filter, the dispatcher will automatically prioritize generating flights that depart from or arrive at your specific/ favourite airports.

Everything runs locally in your browser cache, so your custom list stays completely private and you don't need to mess around with managing separate database files.

You can check out the latest version here:

Happy flying!

@scottike FAO scottike

I have added a list of Hand-Crafted airports at the bottom of this post for you to experiment with. Like I mentioned, this will cause routing issues as there are not enough airports in the list but it might help you find some routes to and from Hand-Crafted airports. N.B. This is NOT required for anyone else as these airports are all included by default in the airport database.

Hand-Crafted ICAO list

AGGN, BIIS, C53, CAA8, CAMA, CYBD, CYCG, CYDA, CYDF, CYFB, CYTZ, CZST, EDDF, EDDK, EDDM, EDDP, EDGD, EDHL, EDJA, EDLO, EDNY, EDVK, EDXH, EFIV, EFVA, EGAO, EGCB, EGFF, EGGP, EGHC, EGLF, EGLL, EGOU, EGPB, EGPR, EGSS, EICK, EIDL, EKRN, ENLK, ENRA, ENSB, ESNQ, ESSA, FACT, FAWC, FYVF, HECA, HUEN, JP-0052, KASE, KATL, KAVX, KBID, KCGX, KCOF, KDFW, KEB, KFFA, KFHR, KJFK, KLAX, KMCO, KNKX, KORD, KRVL, KSWF, KTEX, KTVL, LDRI, LEBB, LECO, LEMD, LESU, LFHM, LFLJ, LFMN, LFNC, LFPB, LFPG, LHPP, LILC, LILO, LIPB, LIRJ, LKKV, LOGI, LOWK, LPPI, LQPD, LSZA, LSZB, LSZG, LSZH, LSZN, LSZO, LSZR, LZTT, MHTG, MKJS, MRSN, MTCA, MUCL, MYEH, NCAI, NTTB, NTTM, NZGS, NZMF, NZMJ, NZQE, NZQN, NZRO, NZTL, NZWR, NZWS, OMDB, PAFR, PAVD, PHKO, PTPN, RJCK, RJER, RJFR, RJFU, RJSD, RJT1, RJTH, RJTT, RJX7, RJX8, ROKR, RORS

Edited Saturday at 01:39 PM2 days by toby23

That's a smart way to handle the airport problem. An owned-airports filter is probably more useful than trying to guess what everyone has installed, and keeping it in browser storage is the right kind of simple for this sort of tool.

I also like that it still keeps the route generation quick. For me the value of something like this is getting from 'I have time for one flight' to a plausible SimBrief sector without turning the whole evening into planning.

Enjoying this masterpiece greatly :) ... but have found a problem with the PMDG DC-6. The Simbrief aircraft ID is simply DC6 - not DC6A or DC6B.

Is it possible to select aircraft variants ?

5 hours ago, Adamski_NZ said:

Enjoying this masterpiece greatly :) ... but have found a problem with the PMDG DC-6. Is it possible to select aircraft variants ?

Hi Adamski and thank you for your kind words.

I've fixed the problem. v9.3 is online, this is shown on the bottom right of the dispatch tool page.
You might need to refresh the page, CTRL+F5, a couple of times to force your browser to load the latest version.

The Cargo and Passenger variants of the DC-6, and other aircraft, are included in the database and the dispatcher automatically adjusts the job type / payload for either variant. Enjoy flying the beautiful DC-6.

Edited yesterday at 11:00 AM1 day by toby23

Update v9.7
- Azurpoly SEPECAT Jaguar, IndiaFoxtEcho Panavia Tornado, and Just Flight Hawk T1/A added.
- 96 missions in database (25 exclusively for military aircraft)
- Code updates and logic checks to ensure correct dispatch protocols are followed

Edited yesterday at 08:05 PM1 day by toby23

Any chance you could get the Beachcraft Bonanza G36 into your system? It's a default aircraft.

Thanks .....

Edited 16 hours ago16 hr by Rob G