Airline Flight Planning in X Plane 11
Channel: Flight Brothers FT
Date: 2019-05-02

Learn how we select an airline route and plan the flight!  We also show how to load and read your Simbrief to extract all the information needed by a Sim Captain.  Useful websites listed below as we demonstrate with FlightAware.com

0:00 Intro
1:55 Flight Selection by Airline or Aircraft Type in FlightAware
7:50 Sorting Flights by Flight Time
9:08 Map Search
15:08 How are we getting there? - Aircraft and Airfield Considerations
19:18 Simbrief Navigation
20:09 Minimum Required Info
21:30 Flight Plan data input
23:32 Generating the OFP
26:52 Flight Plans for importing
25:03 OFP Overview pg1.  What does it all mean?
31:36 OFP Overview pg2.
33:11 Skyvector.com
33:31 OFP Overview pg3
34:38 OFP Overview pg4 - Routing information
37:02 Top Of Descent information


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