07-09-2009, 04:22 PM
agenthunt Wrote:Really great reports! I was curious how you generated all those preflight documents in the first report. Is that part of the PMDG aircraft or do you use some external application?
Hi Cliff.
Thank you for your nice comments.
For loading the aircraft I use the PMDG Loadeditor. For takeoff and landing reports I now use TOPCAT and for the flight planning in general I use Flight Operation Center (FOC), which is a very powerful program, but also very expensive. But I now use it for about 5-6 years and I still don't know everything about it. It doesn't create the routes for you, you still have to do it on your own, but once you have the routes and use real weather and know the ZFW of your aircraft it produces quite good results. I think the flightplan of the flight from New Orleans to Düsseldorf was one of the closer ones, as the times almost matched perfectly according to flying time. I think there was only a difference of 2 minutes. But on a flight that lasts for 8-9 hours I would call 2 minutes 'nothing'. :D