Fsbuild-2 Flight Planner

Another nice feature, that i just discoverd, is you can copy and past an entire flight plan, like from http://flightaware.com/, into the "blue box" and push the PM button.
Bob

Over the past few days, I had discovered techniques similar to photophor's. However, here is what I want to be able to do and what I find valuable.

I don't need a product like FSBuild to just be able to add and delete waypoints in a route if I know the name of the waypoint. The inherent flight planning capabilities of addons like that of the PMDG 747-400X does this and very well at that. What would be valuable would be to be able to VISUALIZE the positions of waypoints (VORs, NDBs, INTs) available in a specific area of the map but without knowing their names so that I can select them for inclusion into the route. I want visualizing the positions of waypoints on the map to be an INPUT TO (i.e., help me plan) and not just an OUTPUT FROM (i.e., see what the plan looks like) the flight plan build process.

How do I do this ?

Thanks,
Zach

Try this: Enter KJFK as the departure airport and KIAD as the destination. Click the 'PM' button to change to plan mode. Click the button with the black circle to the right of the 'Navaids' menu. Hold down the 'Alt' key and drag a 200 mile rectangle centered on KIAD.

You should be able to see all of the VOR's that are used as entry gateways for KIAD. All of the selected navaids also appear in the 'Navaids' menu. If you scroll to 'EMI', you can alternate click (right click) and a pop up menu will offer the option of entering 'EMI' into the route plan.

The black circle button gives you VOR's, the red circle button NDB's. the 'A' button adds airports and the triangle button waypoints.

Stephen

p.s. I can see you want to try the advanced features of FSBuild. There is a great plan mode tutorial on the web site.
http://fsbuild.com/forum/posting.php?mo ... 9c369e9681

Will certainly try it. Some of your suggestions sound familiar per the tutorial I had obtained from the FSBuild site. Apparently the techniques documented in there can be used in other scenarios and it looks like this is what's not documented very well.

One more question. I know the "X" at the top clears the map. How do I clear the route, plan....everything, to be able to start with a new planning process without having to exit and restart FSBuild ?

Thanks,
Zach
P.S. The tutorial link in your last post takes me back to this post.....is it correct ?

zkaps, This is what i do. I'll make my FP in FSBuild, most of the time auto generate. Then hit PM to see if I want to add or change a sid or star. Make the change, then hit PM again, it takes me back to auto generate FP page. From there I choose to export it to FSNav.Open FSNav and look at the flight plan and if I want to add or delete any waypoints I do it there, save and export to where ever.
Bob

The easiest way to use the '"blue box"' or the blue 'Flight Plan' box as Bob alluded to.

Its an edit box you just enter the Id of the Navaids or Fixes and press enter. This too goes for lat/lon values, and Sid/Star, and Airway identifers.

As bob alluded to you can also 'copy/paste' entire coded routes into the 'blue' Flight Plan box (with a dep/dest) , and simply press the 'Build' button.

Then Press 'Build' (Not autogen), and you will see all the waypoints/Navaids with their names, and their locations will display along the route line on the map.

Example: Route Phoenix to Chicago

KPHX RIMMM1.ABQ ACH LBL J134 ICT J26 IRK BDF5 KORD

1) Take the entire text 'KPHX RIMMM1.ABQ ACH LBL J134 ICT J26 IRK BDF5 KORD' and enter it into the 'blue' flight plan box (or copy/paste it)

2) You'll notice the Departure and destination airports were filled in automatically, as well the runways and Sid/Star menu's were populated automatically.

3) Press the 'Build' button.

4) After the build is complete, you'll see the entire route listed on the table/grid, also the route is displayed on the map display.

5) if you wish to know where a particular waypoint is located on the route, click on its row in the table/grid and it will highlight on the map in red.



6) If you wish to change/edit a waypoint, the easiest way is to simply again go into the 'blue' flight plan box and manully edit the route waypoints. Then press 'Build' again (not autogenerate)

7) You can also edit the table itself, and force Fsbuild to build from the table/grid instead of building the route from the flight plan box.

See these threads below for details...

http://fsbuild.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=200
http://fsbuild.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=272
http://fsbuild.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=199

9) If you wish to use lat/lon entries, again you can simply enter them into the 'blue' Flight Plan box just like other waypoints.

See the features page for examples.

http://fsbuild.com/features/atsroutes.htm

Also see the 'Latlon waypoint formats2.pdf' document in the Fsbuild/User Guides folder for more details on all the lat/lon formats supported by Fsbuild.

Regards.
Ernie.