How to change aircraft in a flight plan?

[akmatov]

I'm sure this must be in the manual, but I've looked and not found it. 

After you have created a flight plan, how do you add a specific aircraft from the aircraft you have already entered into the Aircraft Profile or change out an aircraft in a flight plan already associated with an aircraft.

Many thx

[tim arnot]

The aircraft isn't directly associated with a plan. Just open the profile for the particular aircraft you want to fly.

[akmatov]

Ah, I was thinking because different aircraft have different characteristic, those differences would affect the flight plan.  So, even though an aircraft type is sometimes added to the name of a flight plan, the aircraft type doesn't have any effect on the plan?

When I do a flight plan with Active Sky Next, their flight plan asks for a rate of climb and a rate of descent in addition to cruise altitude.  It computes a Top Of Climb and a Top Of Descent. 

Just today I was experimenting and was flying on a Plan-G flight plan loaded into the aircraft's Garmin 530, with the same waypoints in a flight plan on ASN.  The aircraft flew at the cruise altitude from my Plan-G flight plan or maybe the altitude from ASN and at the TOD, began the descent.  Not sure what system was autopiloting the plane.  Guess I need to do some experiments, I'm confused.

[sky one]

Ah, I was thinking because different aircraft have different characteristic, those differences would affect the flight plan.  So, even though an aircraft type is sometimes added to the name of a flight plan, the aircraft type doesn't have any effect on the plan?

The airacraft isn't directly associated to the flight plan, but it has effects on the plan!  :)
Let me explain: is not associated means that you can change aircraft even with a compiled fligth plan. The plan will not be modified, but the lower part of the flight plan window will be. You surely saw that flight plans created with Plan-G don't have TOC and TOD automatically inserted by the software at first, but the TOD is calculated based on you airspeed and altitude.

Ciao
Cristiano

[akmatov]

ah, good to know, now it is beginning to make sense