FlightPlanner is designed to help you prepare a navigation and flight plan for a specified aircraft and to print the information on a Jeppesen Sanderson, Inc. navigation log and flight plan form. Weight and Balance data is graphically plotted on the center of gravity limit and moment envelope graphs. On-screen help is provided.

Aircraft:

• Data is currently provided for eight aircraft: a Cessna 152, Cessna 172, Cessna 172S, Cessna 182, Piper Archer II (PA-28-181), a Beechcraft Duchess (BE-76), a Katana (DA-20), and a Piper Arrow II (PA-28R-200). Data is included for climb, cruise, and fuel economy performance as well as weight and balance.

Flight Plans:

• An unlimited number of flight plans may be stored with a display limit of 72 plan names on the screen at any one time.
• Functions provided for entering a new plan and deleting/renaming/copying existing flight plans.
• Automatic flight plan file backup.
• Some sample flight plans from Southern California are included..

Flight Plan Navigation:

User enters:

1. Check points.
2. Course directions.
3. Altitudes.
4. Winds aloft directions, velocities, and temperatures.
5. Compass variations.
6. Magnetic deviations.
7. Leg distances.
8. Initial fuel.

Program calculates:

1. True air speeds.
2. Compass headings.
3. Leg cumulative distances.
4. Ground Speeds.
5. Leg times.
6. Fuel burns.

Features:

• Automatic recognition of climb legs for performance computations.
• Flight plan filing computed data taken from navigation screen.
• Invert flight plan.
• Data for airport frequencies entered for printing on flight plan form.
• Plan may have up to 16 legs (2-page plan).

Download FlightPlanner 1.4 here (180,224 bytes).

"FLIGHTP.EXE" is a self-extracting executable which will expand into all the necessary files for FlightPlanner. After expansion, you may delete the downloaded file to reclaim the disk space. Execute this program using the batch file "FP.BAT". "FP_PROG.EXE" requires 409K free memory.

If you decide to keep and use FlightPlanner, I ask that you send a $20 registration fee to: CarTest Software, P.O. Box 4213, Palos Verdes, CA 90274. You may also register on-line using PayPal.

Note that PlightPlanner is a DOS program and requires true DOS to operate properly. Windows 95/98 has true DOS and FlightPlanner will run correctly. Windows 2000/XP does not have true DOS and the program will not run properly under these operating systems. If you are having trouble installing FlightPlanner, click here for help.

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