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Thanks Joe for your answer. This is a raw version of what I have in mind, but will do the job and it serves as a starting point for what I want to create.Best Regards,Gig

Thanks Jon, you catch the idea. Also thanks for the link. I tried it but it doesn't showed any results for some queries that I made.Anyway, I actually don't need flight plans, just the names and ICAO codes of airports that match a given search criteria. Later I could pick the ones I like and make I flight plan. The searching parameteres would be distance, ILS, runway length and so on.I want this because I never do flights longer than 300 miles and sometimes I just don't know "from - where" to fly. By the way I fly the PSS A320 or the FeelThere 737PIC.If I make an application able to do this, maybe it would be of interest for other simmers, too.Gig

Hi HK,Thank you for replying.I alredy have FSBuild and other planning tools. What I want is a tool that, entering the airport of origin and distance radius, suggests me a list of possible destination airports based also (but optional) on parameters like runway length, ILS, altitude, etc.If there are no such program, maybe I could build one.Gig

Hi People,I would apreciate if someone could help find a tool that I've seen not so long ago, but can't remember the name. What it does is suggest two airports for flight plan making based on several parameteres like distance which I am most interested in.Thanks in advance,Gig

Hi CobraFly,Thank you for you response. That's exactly how I was doing and I'll keep on doing it that way because the other way suggested doesn't seem "comfortable" and and right in terms of flight management.Thank you everyone for your ideas and suggestions.Regards,Gig

Hi Rob,I imagined that TOC restrictions couldn't be changed. I think it's in the manual, too. Just wanted to make sure there were no "backdoors" to change that behaviour ;) Your solution sounds clever and logic, so I'll give it a try.Thank you very much once again for your time and help.Best Regards,Gig

Hi Rob,First of all thaks for responding.I agree with you totally if I were not doing a very short flight, 25 minutes or so. In a real life is done mostly with B737 and they climb no more than around FL160 because, among other factors, they woudn't reach cruise altitude and would be forced or directed by atc to start descending.So is a short flight, altitude 16000 feet and if I am not wrong, although over FL100/250 Kt speed restriction, Radar Contact doesn't allow me faster cruise speed. I know there are ways to set RC not to pay attention to speed restrictions, etc. But I don't want to do that.The problem is that I can't set the auto inserted virtual waypoint "TOC" speed restriction to 250 kts. So after overflying FL100 it starts accelerating to 280 kts and I have to disengage managed mode and set the speed manually to 250 until cruise level. As I say if I change the speed on the MCDU from 280 to 250, it reverts to 280 after about 2 seconds.Here are the screen shots of init and fplan pages:Thanks again,Gig

Hi,I've been a registered user to PSS aircrafts for a long time and never had significant problem or ones that could not be fixed one way or another.One thing that I can't figure is the way I can change the auto inserted TOC speed in FMC, which always defaults at 280 kts. If I change it manually using the MCDU it reverse to the previous value.Is it possible somehow to remedy this? In particular for the short flight I am doing these days, I need it to be 250 kts.Thanks in advance for any suggestions and help.Gig

And the last one I've seen, but don't pay too much attention on this one, because is the least used:{Flightplan}title=SUMU to SABE description=SUMU, SABE type=IFRroutetype=3cruising_altitude=28000departure_id=SUMU, S34* 50.09', W056* 01.50', +000105.00departure_position=06destination_id=SABE, S34* 33.53', W058* 24.98', +000016.00departure_name=Carrasco Intl/Gen C L Berissodestination_name=Jorge Newbery Aeroparquealternate_name=waypoint.0=SUMU, A, S34* 50.09', W056* 01.50', +000105.00,waypoint.1=KKNIMBO, I+LOCWAY, S34* 30.82', W056* 29.53', +000000.00,waypoint.2=KKPABOT, I+LOCWAY, S34* 15.60', W056* 51.57', +000000.00,waypoint.3=KKPONPA, I+LOCWAY, S33* 56.42', W057* 18.98', +000000.00,waypoint.4=KKPAPIX, I+LOCWAY, S34* 24.97', W058* 00.03', +000000.00,waypoint.5=SABE, A, S34* 33.53', W058* 24.98', +000016.00,Happy programming :)

Another one:{flightplan}title=SUMU to SABEdescription=SUMU, SABEtype=IFRroutetype=3cruising_altitude=14000departure_id=SUMU, S34* 50.15', W056* 01.49',+000105.00departure_position=01destination_id=SABE, S34* 33.37', W058* 24.55',+000020.00departure_name=MONTEVIDEO_CARRASCO_INTLdestination_name=AEROPARQUE_JORGE_NEWBERYwaypoint.0=SUMU, A, S34* 50.15', W056* 01.49', +000000.00, waypoint.1=SARGO, I, S34* 58.58', W056* 53.02', +10000.00, waypoint.2=ESLAN, I, S34* 58.55', W057* 05.05', +12000.00, waypoint.3=PTA, V, S34* 58.33', W057* 53.54', +14000.00, waypoint.4=EZE, V, S34* 49.26', W058* 32.07', +14000.00, waypoint.5=ENO, V, S34* 33.46', W058* 47.26', +11000.00, waypoint.6=VANAR, I, S34* 19.28', W058* 45.44', +06000.00, waypoint.7=SABE, A, S34* 33.37', W058* 24.55', +000000.00,

Glad to hear that Jim and also glad to help. Here is your request:{flightplan} (Had to change the brackets)title=SUMU to SABEdescription=SUMU, SABEtype=IFRroutetype=1cruising_altitude=15000departure_id=SUMU, S34* 50.27', W56* 1.82', +000104.99departure_position=GATE C 0destination_id=SABE, S34* 33.53', W58* 24.98', +000016.40departure_name=Carrasco Intl/Gen C L Berissodestination_name=Jorge Newbery Aeroparquewaypoint.0=SUMU, A, S34* 50.27', W56* 1.82', +000104.99,waypoint.1=DAGUS, I, S35* 2.28', W56* 7.42', +000000.00,waypoint.2=SARGO, I, S34* 58.97', W56* 53.03', +000000.00,waypoint.3=PAGON, I, S33* 55.27', W58* 43.23', +000000.00,waypoint.4=VANAR, I, S34* 19.47', W58* 45.73', +000000.00,waypoint.5=FDO, V, S34* 27.08', W58* 35.05', +000000.00,waypoint.6=SABE, A, S34* 33.53', W58* 24.98', +000016.40,Regards,Gig

Hi Jim,I don't see too much problem in checking if "AppVersion" line exists and use one parsing logic, and if not other one. The problem in loading the flight plan is that you can't simply load it and save, but have to use the find route button in order to be able to save it and once done that, FS could change considerably your original flight plan, even the cruising altitude. So, I consider that this utility is trictly for users of the in-built FS planner.Anyway, my personal opinion, others may disagree. Having FSNavigator and FSBuild, why would I have to plan, save, load, resave, load, modify, save; just to make a small modification when I can do that in one step with those flight planners.If I were you, I wouldn't stick just to one flight .pln format, especially when all others planners exports to a FS different, but to similar one. This would avoid narrowing your "audience" from the begining.Anyway, thanks for your time and wish you the best in your work.Regards,Gig

>Gig,>>I've put out 2 releases as public betas and had quite a lot of>feedback on which to base Ver3. I think Ver3 is ready but just>want to be sure, its very hard to spot your own mistakes!!Jim, I know how that is, as 43 years old systems developer, and believe me you'll never spot every bug no matter how hard you try even with a beta testing team. The best beta testing, nowadays when there are so many hardware and software configurations that may be of influence, is to relase it like you did with your previous versions, so everyone interested can try it. You can see it doing even by the greatest software companies :-hah>Other people have e-mailed me with the same "No File Opened">problem. It has usually been because the PLN file was either>created (or edited) by another Add-On, which alters the file>structure slightly or because the PLN has more than 25>waypoints.>If you open the PLN file using Flight Planner within MS2004,>edit it slightly, then re-save. This will restructure the PLN>file and then my Route Editor will be able to open it>(Provided its less than 25 waypoints). I wish that was the problem. After trying to open my flight plans (non of them having more then 10-15 waypoints), I thought the same like you, about possibe structure issue, and tried to open some flight plans included with FS like aerial01.pln, alaska01.pln and the problem persisted. What I think is that if FS or Radar Contact or other thirdy party tool reads the files, you're application has to be able to read it, too. Otherwise, I could think of possible difference in parsing logic.Another thing that might be useful in your development. Most people, including myself, use FSNavigator or FSBuilder as primary flight planners among others. Maybe you shoud generate some plans with those tools and test them with your application, otherwise you might recieve many bug reports ;)Hope this helps.Regards,Gig

Hi Jim,I think the best way to get more feedbacks is to release it as a public beta. It's freeware, anyway. At least it will save you from sending it to any mail you receive, and may be a lot of them. Let the people download it, try it and report bugs and functionality requests through this forum. It's just MHO.Best Regards,GigP.S. By the way I downloaded your previous version and when I try to open a .pln file, an error "No file opened" shows up. I tried with different plans and the same thing happens.

Hi guys,Would anyone be so kind to tell me where to get the binary weather file (*.wx) structure in order to try some weather conversions to MSFS file format.Thanks in advance.Regards,Gig