Professional Flight Planner X Download
Guy Clena
A user-friendly interface allows you to easily build flight plans in a few steps. Advanced options permit realistic flight planning with sophisticated features like Long Range (EROPS) and Re-Dispatch Planning. The printable Flight Briefing Package includes real-time weather and wind charts as well as NOTAM, METAR and TAF reports*.
I don't get it why Aerosoft abandoned the PFPX project. They had a window of opportunity to create the "one place" flight planning platform - I mean integrating the Navdata/Charts Pro and PFPX - that's what Navigraph is trying (at least) doing with Charts/Simbrief since they bought it. I do not understand why Aerosoft haven't done that to create ultimate flight planning software, merging the features which Navdata/Charts Pro and PFPX provide.
I still use PFPX for flight planning (MSFS). If you need weather data you can use WX2PFPX tool (available on GitHub). It generates real-world weather data (the same format as for ActiveSky) so you can load it to PFPX and do the planning stuff.
I use PFPX and WX2PFPX for flight planning with airliners, and LittleNavmap for planning with general aviation aircrafts. For performance calcuations, I still use TOPCAT because it features many different aircrafts and is still remarkably accurate for calculating takeoff or landing performance. In fact, I just bought a new PC, and PFPX/TOPCAT will be re-installed. There will be no new version though as the developers stopped their work on these apps.
Thanks for the input. I just saw that there is only the product page at simmarket but no option to buy it anymore. Too bad. I would have considered PFPX as a more professional tool to plan certain flights (ETOPS, NAT, avoid airspaces etc.). Gues i'll just have to do it manually for the time being.
Regarding weather: I still startup FSGRW (P3D V4 version) for a minute to download current weather. This is loaded into PFPX automatically and PFPX is therefore able to give you a very precise block and flight time. Often just a few minutes off on 3 hrs flights (depending on VATSIM traffic and ATC).
These are all the information I need for a flight. I just copy it into an excel sheet that outputs an OFP in the old dba style (started simming some 15 years back at dba virtual airlines):
Could continue like this for hours.
Although simbrief is fancy for many simmers due to a seamless integration into some 3rd party addons, it's absolutely unusable for me, has many downsides and lacks features.
That's why I can only recommend PFPX even if it's not developed any further.
I find it strange that after all these years we can't get a flight planner that is as in-depth. SimBrief is not bad, but compared to PFPX it is still very surface level and kinda amateurish. I mean that it being free is a big plus, but is there no replacement for PFPX yet? Or does it still work?
A user-friendly interface helps to easily build flight plans in a few steps. Advanced options permit realistic flight planning with sophisticated features like Long Range (EROPS) and Re-Dispatch Planning. The printable Flight Briefing Package includes real-time weather and wind charts as well as NOTAM, METAR and TAF reports. Planned routes can be exported to various add-ons like Airbus X Extended, PMDG 737 NGX, 747, MD 11 and Captain Sim 757/767.
PFPX comes with a large aircraft database ranging from Airbus and Boeing types to smaller airplanes like Citation and Cirrus. An open source file format allows simple creation of new aircraft types. Regular navigation database updates are available for realistic route planning.
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