Some of us are not aviation experts (myself included) and could use a little help creating more realistic flight plans. Sometimes there may be waypoints missing from IF that need to be researched and converted. Introducing http://FPLtoIF.com!
FPLtoIF.com is a free, ad-free, mobile friendly website that will assist you in copying your flight plan from Flight Aware or SimBrief. Made from scratch by yours truly.
Once on the website, the procedures are simple:
Select Flight Aware of SimBrief.
Follow the instructions on the screen for each source.
The website will analyze the generated flight plan and fill in missing waypoints with GPS coordinates where needed.
The IF friendly flight plan will be generated. Pressing a single button will copy the plan to your clipboard
Paste the plan into IF and you are on your way.
Additional Features:
Available for both solo and PRO routes.
Additional SimBrief analysis including fuel, VS calculation, passenger count, and weight.
Log of the last 20 plans to give you an idea of where you can fly to.
Did I mention is it #makeitfree compliant!
Added SimBrief support for VORs
Added support to handle duplicate waypoints that show on the other side of the world.
In real life waypoint names can be reused. Infinite flight gets confused on which waypoint you are wanting and will pull the one from the other side of the world. Simply manually remove that rogue waypoint.
Tried it with an FPL from SimBrief right now, it got all the missing waypoints in correctly but said two VORs in the FPL are missing in IF when they actually exist in IF.
Holy cow, that’s an incredible tool! Absolutely love it and will use it for all my future flights! Great work @Chris_S, appreciate your effort towards such a great tool.
HI this is very handy way of setting up a flight plan but I have only one question to ask when i put in the flight plan. I going from EIDW -EGLL I get a perfect route except for one way point in the plan sending me to somewhere south of Australia first you can see it in the pics above when I remove this waypoint then plan is perfect. Here is the route I have after putting it in the calculator.
The 4th way point is the problem LIFFY. I have seen this happen as well on a EIDW-KJFK route sending me to Africa on the way once i remove this way point all is good them. Thanks by the way it is still good tool
This is because of duplicate waypoints. I am working on a way to stop that from happening. I knew it existed but did not know to which the scale of it was. For now you just manually delete that one waypoint from your plan after it is loaded.
