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FSBuild 2.0 Features - Last Updated Feb 5, 2003
System Requirements:
Minimum Pentium 700, 384 MB RAM.
Win98, WinME, WinNT4/2000, WinXP (Not tested on WinME, but don't see any reason why it wouldn't work there)
Will work with less RAM, but will run a bit slow at times, especially if FS2002 is running at the same time.
Fsbuild 2.0 will be payware/shareware.
Features Overiew
- Map view to graphically display created flight plan routings and available Navaids airways, SIDs and STARs.
- Enhanced coded route interpreter, interpret various coded route/Flight Plan formats
- Flexible automatic route generation, can auto generate complete flight plans from scratch between DEP/DEST, as well was generate a route between two or more defined points.
- Grapical SID/STAR display to assist in determining best SID/STAR route for direction of flight.
- Airway, and Navaid Search in user specified areas for efficient route planning.
- 'Plan mode' feature allows use of the Map view for manually creating flight plans from scratch using Navaids, Airways SIDS and STAR's.
- Optional Step climb calculations for long range Flights.
- Aircraft performance calculations climb cruise, descent, and fuel.
- 10,000+ ready to use flight plans included.
- Easy access to flight plans stored on the websites for easy copy/paste directly into Fsbuild.
- Import routes created with external Flight Planners/Flight Planning web sites
- Entire FAA Preferred IFR routes and Severe weather routes database included (can be easily updated by a download from FAA's web site).
- Canada Preferred IFR routes database included.
- Support for insertion of daily, and static North Atlantic and Pacific Track routings into Flight Plans.
- Exporting of flight plans to several FlightSim, and FlightSim add-on formats.
- Detailed Navigation log with aircraft climb, cruise,descent, and fuel performance information included.
- Performance calculations adjusted for Winds aloft forecast at each waypoint (Available for SimWx, FSMeteo 5.2, and ActiveSkeywxRe)
- Can be used with X-Plane,FS2002,PS1,FLY!2 FlightSims.
FEATURED DETAILS:
FLIGHT PLANS:
STORED:
- Database of 10,000+ ready to use stored flight plans included.
- Save/Delete user created Flight Plans.
- Log kept of recently Created/Built Flight Plans for easy retrieval and reuse.
CATEGORY:
- Support user definition of stored flight plan categories linked to user defined flight plan files.
- Search/Filter flight plan list display by departure, destination airport city name or ICAO code
BUILD:
- Enhanced coded route interpreter, interprets various coded Route/Flight Plan formats.
- Route
Plotted over World Map after each Flight plan build.
- Flight Plan waypoints displayed in Active route table/grid after each build.
- Manual Flight plan creation using Navaids, Airways SID's and STAR Identifiers.
- Map view automatically re-zooms to show only area between deprture and destination after each build.
- Optionally Include or Exclude SID or STAR from route during build.
- Step climb profile can be calculated for long distance routes.
- Optionally insert TOC/TOD waypoints into flight plan.
- Performance calculations adjusted for Winds aloft forecast at each waypoint (via fsmeteo,ActiveSkywxRe or SimWx).
- Fuel 'Bias' adjustment support for use with different variants of the same aircraft type.
- Expanded cruise fuel performance support (fuel flow calculations adjusted as aircraft's gross weight changes in cruise)
- Automatically selects cruise alt based on aircraft capability, and direction of flight odd-even altitudes.
- Automatic SID/STAR version number correction during Build.
- Build Flight directly from route/table grid option to support user defined waypoints, and to specify certain Navaids.
- Coded Flight Plan automatically placed in windows clipboard after build (optional) for squawkbox 2 users to paste flight plan int SB's flight plan dialog.
- Route heading/bearing calculations adjusted for magnetic variation.
- User defined fixes/waypoints supported using various lat/lon formats.
- Automatic Export of flight plans to several FlightSim, and FlightSim add-on formats after build completion.
AUTOROUTE GENERATOR:
- Auto generate complete flight plans from scratch between DEP/DEST.
- Automatically selects stored flight plan route when dep/dest matches stored route (option can be disabled).
- Wildcard option to allow single or multiple legs (or gaps) of a partial route to be autogenerated.
- Recognizes single direction airways during auto-generation, and avoids wrong direction airways.
- Automatically selects appropriate SID's STAR's and airways for route.
- SID/STAR selection only includes SID/STARs available for the selected runway.
- Optionally can Include/Exclude SID/STAR from flight plan autogeneration.
- Takes into account preferred departure and arrival routings at specified airports (preffered DEP/ARR routes can be user defined).
- Automatically selects or low high alt airway routes based on cruise altitude.
- In plan mode auto generated routes can be modified for error correction or fine tuning by the user.
PLANNING/CREATING (PLAN MODE):
- Plan Mode for manual creation of Flight plans using Map view display.
- Each route modification or change is automatically replotted on the map display, so you can immediately see how your modification affects the routing.
- Coded or ATS representation of route automatically updated with each route modication or change.
- Route waypoint table automatically updated with each route modication or change.
- Automatic new waypoint positioning. No need to drag and drop or specifically place selected navaids at a certain spot
as Fsbuild knows exactly the appropriate place to position a selected Navaid in the Flight Plan.
- Current stored or coded route built automatically when entering plan mode for easy modification existing or stored flight plans.
- Great circle route optionally generated as a guide for long distance route planning.
- Can manually type in airway by Identifier and have it highlight on map for better airway route identification/selection.
- Current North Atlantic Tracks graphically displayed in map view
- Can insert todays Daily North Atlantic Tracks routes into Flight Plan.
- Available North Altantic Track Altitudes selectable from pulldown menu.
- Can optionally select static North Atlantic Tracks used by online ATC organizations into flight plan.
- Search specified Map area for Navaids, and Airways, search results can be inserted into the flight plan.
- Airways can be inserted into flight plan by specified airway route segment (From,Via,To)
- Automatic display of appropriate SID/STARs when new airport or runway is selected.
- Can define display of airways that pass over a specified Navaid, for easier route planning via the Map.
- Airway routes displayed highlighted on map upon selection for better indentification.
- Automatic Insertion of selected SID/STAR route into flight plan.
- SID/STAR airways highlighted when selected for better identification.
- SID/STAR transitions highlighted on map separately upon selection.
- SID/STAR and Airway waypoints highlight individually on map upon selection
- Airway Map lines can be ID'd by mouse selection on map for better clarification of which map line represents which airway.
- Airway waypoints highlight individually on map upon selection
- Airways SID's, STAR's and Navaids can be identified on map no matter what the zoom level is. Allowing for better use of these items over longer distances.
- Single Direction Airways displayed on Map with directional arrows indication route direction.
- Insertion of lat/lon Map cursor position into flight plan as waypoint.
DISPLAY:
- Grapical SID/STAR display to assist in determining best SID/STAR route for direction of flight.
- Map view to graphically display created flight plan routings and available Navaids airways, SIDs and STARs.
- Route Waypoint highlighting, so you can see exactly where each waypoint in your flight plan is located geograhically.
- FL notation displayed when route waypoint is at or above defined transition altitude for the departure/arrival area
- Online ATC situation display view (Only Vatsim supported at this time)
- Insert relevent user configurable web sites into Fsbuild interface.
EXPORT
Exporting of Flight Plans to various FlightSim FMS/GPS add-ons.
Exporting formats available:
- FS2000 Planner (.pln)
- FSNavigator 3/4
- 767PIC
- PSS 747/777
- PSS A320
- FLY!II Planner
- PMDG 777 for FLY!II
- PMDG 757 for FLY!II
- X-Plane 6.2+ FMS
- Aerowinx PS1 (.rou and .via option)
- ACS-GPS
- GPS98
- SquawkBox 2
- Radar Contact
IMPORT
Importing of Flight Plans from various formats.
- Squawkbox
- FS2000
- 767PIC
- PSS 747/777
- PSS A320
- PS1.3
Via option availabe for PSSA320, PS1.3,767PIC, and FS2000 .PLN to import the
route in ATS or coded formats.
AIRCAFT DATA/PERFORMANCE:
- Detailed Aircraft, time, and fuel performance calculations (user customizable)
- Takeoff and Landing V-speed calculations based on gross weight, elevation, temperature, and flaps settings.
- Takeoff Gross weight automatically recalculated when fuel or payload weight values are modified.
- After Build, Takeoff and landing Gross Weights are adjusted to include the projected fuel use for the flight.
- If Max takeoff and landing Gross weights are exceeded user is notified by highlighted them in red.
- Aircraft Performance data included initially for, A320,B727-2,B737-4,MD80/83,DC10-10, ERJ145.
- Optional Step climb calculations for long range Flights.
- Cruise performance/fuel flow changes as aircraft's gross weight changes during cruise.
- Performance calculations adjusted for Winds aloft forecast at each waypoint (Available for SimWx, FSMeteo, and ActiveSkywxRe)
- Performance data can be customized for a specific Flight Sim aircraft model.
NAVDATA
- Database of SID's and STAR's, and Airways, Airports and Navaids included.
- Preferred arrival and departures routings included for many airports (user customizable).
- Complete High and Low alt Airways database.
- US Socal TEC routes
- US and Canada Preferred IFR routes.
- VOR's, NDB's, and Intersections, and Airways databases will be updated every Airac cycle via Richard Stefan's Navdata service.
- Program Database is simulator independent, can use the same database for different FlightSims.
- Entire FAA Preferred IFR and Severe weather routes database included (can be easily updated by a download from FAA's web site).
MISC
- Support of FL notation for user defined cruise altitude box.
- Pulldown menu available when entered Navaid ID contains multiple ID's in the database (waypoint table/grid).
- Can define Magnetic year used in magvar adjustments (range 2000-2005).
- Displays latitude longitude position of cursor on map, automatically adjusts display when mouse moves.
- Flight Plan Navlog printout with optional export to .pdf format.
- Navlog can be customized to include your own or your organizations logo .
- SID/STAR menu displays in synch with runways that support them as runway selection changes so does SID/STAR menu.
- Map Zoom factor displayed.
- Detailed Navigation log with aircraft climb, cruise,descent, and fuel performance information included.
- Navlog includes column to display ARTCC/FIR sector for each Flight Plan waypoint
- Optionally to display user defined aircraft callsign in Navlog
- Import directly from multine ICAO/telex route format
- Import directly from the numerous websites and applications that store or generate flight plans in coded format.
- Import routes created with 'RoutFinder' website.
- Automatic flight plan destination alternate selection (user confugurable).
- Activity Log (to keep track of recently created flights)
- Revision option for X-Plane. Since X-Plane does not support loading flight plans from previous versions, you can
specifiy which X-Plane revision you currently have, so X-Plane will load Fsbuild generated plans in your release.
- Easy access to flight plans stored on various flight plan/planning the websites for easy copy/paste directly into Fsbuild.
- Miniplan version of Navlog dcan optionally be exported to FS2002's Kneeboard notes file with the abbreviated route and takeoff and landing data (v-speeds) information.
- Navlog automatically exported to X-Plane for display inside X-Plane 6.5
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