My view (slightly belated, I fear — but I've only just stumbled across this place , so please forgive me) —
I find the Aivlasoft software indispensable. To be fair, I enjoy the whole flight planning process and I do it in depth, but I like EFB because:
1. No more buying Navigraph charts — EFB generates them and displays them at the correct phase of flight
2. Excellent moving map (with the aircraft shown on the appropriate chart type for the current phase of flight — especially helpful when taxying around an unfamiliar airport in poor vis) comes as part of the package
3. It runs very happily on a networked machine, thus freeing up memory and screen space on my main fsx box
4. It makes the selection of the correct SID and STAR easy-peasy, and you can *see* the result of your selection on the map as it happens
The only criticism of it (that I can think of) is that the charts it generates don't show an MSA circle (but since I only fly procedural IFR, that has not so far created a problem for me).
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My view (slightly belated, I fear — but I've only just stumbled across this place
, so please forgive me) —
I find the Aivlasoft software indispensable. To be fair, I enjoy the whole flight planning process and I do it in depth, but I like EFB because:
1. No more buying Navigraph charts — EFB generates them and displays them at the correct phase of flight
2. Excellent moving map (with the aircraft shown on the appropriate chart type for the current phase of flight — especially helpful when taxying around an unfamiliar airport in poor vis) comes as part of the package
3. It runs very happily on a networked machine, thus freeing up memory and screen space on my main fsx box
4. It makes the selection of the correct SID and STAR easy-peasy, and you can *see* the result of your selection on the map as it happens
The only criticism of it (that I can think of) is that the charts it generates don't show an MSA circle (but since I only fly procedural IFR, that has not so far created a problem for me).
Hope it helps,
Cheers,
Brian