How do you plan your flights?

[IF.Kaden]

do you usually base your flights off of wikipedia like me? or do you just have fun and take whatever? thought this would be pretty cool to see what people say 😊

[AlaskaAirfireball111]

I plan my flights based on my life schedule. Usually I plan a 15-16 hour flight so I can get good XP and flight time.

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Most of the routes I fly are based on IRL routes and I use flightaware.com to find the flight plan. I will usually find and plan routes via FlightRadar24.com.

[IF.Kaden]

i haven’t done a long haul in so long! i need to do one soon

[AndrewGraham]

I like to mix real life routes with routed of my own choice, and have a variety

[Qatari777YT]

i usually use Simbreif, paste the route into IF get rid of the messed up fixes and set up altitudes for vnav and that was really it.

[AIDAN101]

Flightradar24 to get flight info, like aircraft type, and a sense of where the airline parks at the airports. I’ll then snatch the flight plan from flightaware, and add in the approach and departure paths in IF

[AviationFreak]

Flight aware in my opinion is the best place for flight plans

[Aviator_SG]

First I just think of where to fly
Then I use Flightradar for the flight number,aircraft type(I dont follow sometimes lol), how the route looks like and where to park at.
After that I head in and try to recreate the route itself

[Oli.S788]

Simple, simbrief

[anon28705166]

To have my flight plan, I use Simbrief.com and
Flightplandatabase.com
Hope this helps

[parson]

I use a variety of different tools like

• Simbrief - For flight plan and VNAV

• FlightAware - For accurate flight information as well as which gate the flight will arrive at and depart from

• Chartfox - For charts to set altitudes, speeds, minimums. Etc (You need a VATSIM acc for this)

• Eurocontrol - For aircraft performance limits

• Windy - For weather as well as NOTAMS, ATIS and backup METARS

• IFC - For anything in between such as aircraft performance databases

[MishaCamp]

My flight planning is normally pretty simple:

• Look on FR24 for something fun. If nothing fun then check airport arrivals for a cool location I want to fly to.

• Go to FPLtoIF.com to get the FPL in an easy IF format

• Fire up IFAssistant and away I go!

[elitespeed00]

I don’t know how it is with other people but I have like an almost endless amount of XP but a really low amount of landings. I’m forever stuck at grade three solely because of my landings, especially the 100 landings in 90 days that you need.

[lhr_pilot]

I just do whatever lol. I’m not the guy for point to point flying instead I do weird routes like these:

all pics and routes are mine btw