Hehe. Nice one Tim.

Hi Tim,
Just getting back into flying. I see that this hasn't yet been addressed.
Is there any chance you could look at this for the next update?

Thanks Tim. You are a true legend.

Hi Tim,
I don't know if something like this has been requested before but here goes.
Some of us are getting into sextant navigation flying across large distances of ocean, island hopping in the South pacific if you will, but it would apply equally to regular GA flying.
To plan the flight in Plan-G it might consist of a departure airport, perhaps a NDB/VOR beacon and then nothing for 500nm or more until another NDB/VOR beacon and finally the arrival airport. Enroute waypoints would be added at expected points (ie hourly) along the planned flight path.

Currently the only record of the actual flight path is the trail which looks pretty but isn't very useful for recording waypoints and navigating to the next expected waypoint.
Plan-G already has the functionality of creating the flight plan, with heading, leg time, distance, Lat, Long etc.
Would taking that process and creating an 'actual path' on a second line be possible?
A button could be added, and pressing it logs the current information in the table, plus altitude, wind speed, direction and Zulu time.
The result would be actual waypoints added along the 'trail' and actual information recorded in the table.

Using the above example the table would look like this.
Departure airport - planned
Departure airport - actual (time off ground)
NDB/VOR beacon - planned
NDB/VOR beacon - actual
WP1 - planned
WP1 - actual
WP2 - planned
WP2 - actual
WP3 - planned
WP3 - actual
WP4 - planned
WP4 - actual
WP5 - planned
WP5 - actual
NDB/VOR beacon - planned
NDB/VOR beacon - actual
Arrival Airport - planned
Arrival Airport - actual (time on ground)

Your kind consideration.
Regards
Trev

Hi Tim,
I read in another post you are releasing another version soon which is fantastic.
I just wanted to check if you had addressed the issue of the economy and performance fuel calculations in the posts above since its been some time passed.

Also from another post the question was raised about the fuel units, if they were USG, lbs Litres etc. You responded the numbers are unitless, which is what we put in is what we get out.
Could we have a line to add the required units. (USG, lb,L) and then the output would add these units to the result. This could also apply to knots/miles and feet/metres.
Currently we enter for example,
Input - Climb Performance as 170 kts, 1500 ft/min, 1020 usg/hr.
Current Output - Profile Climb Rate = 1500, Climb Speed = 170, Fuel = 1020 TOC: 0.166 hours, 28.3 nm, Fuel:169.78 (apart from hours and nm all units are not present)
With the units added to the input we could have,
Requested Output - Profile Climb Rate = 1500ft/min, Climb Speed = 170kts, Fuel = 1020usg/hr, TOC: 0.166 hours, Dist: 28.3 nm, Fuel: 169.78usg

The units could be changed and would show something like this (using say mph m/min and L/hr)
Input - Climb Performance as 200mph, 300 m/min, 3860 L/hr.
Output - Profile Climb Rate = 300m/min, Climb Speed = 200mph, Fuel = 3860L/hr, TOC: 0.166 hours, Dist: 28.3 nm, Fuel: 650L
The calculations are the same. The output values would then reflect the input values making it easier to read the results and cross reference to the aircraft flown.

Also, the output of piston and jet are different.
Piston shows
Profile: Climb Rate
Profile: Descent Rate
ECON Cruise
PERF Cruise
Total Fuel Estimate.

Jet shows
Profile: Climb Rate
Profile: Descent Rate

Are you intending to add Total Fuel Estimate to the Jet output?

I hope this is clear enough to understand. I think the aircraft profile feature is awesome but needs a little love :).
I am happy to be a tester for this if you need.

Best regards
Trev

I also was having this problem. None of the Orbx New Zealand unlisted strips were appearing on PlanG. I was pointing to the FSX/scenery.cfg.
Pointing to the C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\FSX\scenery.cfg works perfectly.
Thanks so much for this thread. Solved a big puzzle that's for sure.
Trev

Hi Tim,
I just downloaded the new .113 beta and it appears that the PERF Cruise line in the aircraft profile hasn't changed. Is this the case?
I will study the other changes tomorrow. Thanks for your continued support of this awesome planner.
best regards
Trev

Excellent. Thanks Tim.

Hi Tim,
Did you find anything wrong in the code?
Regards
Trev

You have unusable fuel set to the same value as max fuel. Ie no usable fuel.

Hi Tim,
Long time user of Plan-G and love it.

I have created an aircraft profile for the first time and it works very well however there seems to be an issue with some output numbers in the flight plan panel. See attached pics.
The aircraft I wanted to test was the A2A Comanche and Plan-G provided just the right planner. Simple and well presented.

You can see in the aircraft profile panel I have entered the cruise speed and fuel rate for economy and performance. 145knts/12gph & 158knts/14gph as per the numbers in the aircraft manual.
The resulting numbers in the flight plan panel all seem to be ok except for the fuel number in the ECON and PERF Cruise lines. They are both the same number.
It appears the Fuel number is calculating ECON Cruise for both lines.
ECON Cruise 6.73hrs x 12gph = 80.76
PERF Cruise 6.18hrs x 14gph = 86.52 (showing 80.76)
Is this an error or am I not doing something correctly in the aircraft profile.

I completed the test with clear weather.
FSX, Windows 7-64, Plan-G 3.1.2

Best regards
Trev