Flight Planner

Real flight planning for flight simulators. Give it two airports and it works out the route, the numbers and the paperwork you would actually take into the cockpit — then hands you a printable PDF for your second monitor or kneeboard.

VFR is what it does properly. Visual cross-countries in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024, X-Plane and the like, using the same real-world data a real flight would: live weather, published airspace, surveyed runways and actual terrain. Aircraft profiles cover the MSFS 2024 fleet, from a Cub to a 747.

IFR works, with limits worth knowing. You get instrument cruise levels, the 45-minute reserve, an alternate with its fuel, the freezing level and an ICAO field 15 string ready to file. What it does not have is licensed navigation data, so routes are direct between radio fixes rather than along published airways, minimum altitudes are worked out from terrain rather than charted MEAs, and no SID, STAR or approach procedure is included. Every plan says so on its face.

• Routes worked out for you. Checkpoints picked from VOR beacons, airfields and towns, steered around controlled airspace — or radio fixes only, when you plan IFR.
• A nav log that matches reality. Wind-corrected headings, ground speeds and fuel from live winds aloft, with magnetic variation from WMM-2025.
• Charts and diagrams. A route chart with airspace, plus departure and destination aerodrome layouts with runways to scale and named taxiways.
• A cockpit checklist. Generated for your flight, with the right frequencies, headings and altitudes — in Dutch, English, German or French.

A planning aid for simulated flight, not an official aeronautical publication. Do not use it to fly a real aircraft.