mutley 4,487 Posted August 24, 2011 Report Share Posted August 24, 2011 Hot off the press! Just published, Jack Whaley-Baldwin's review of TA Software's Plan-G flight planner. This product has quite rightly been awarded the Mutley's Hangar Award for Excellence and is the first FREEWARE title to do so. Read why... Link to post Share on other sites
hurricanemk1c 195 Posted August 24, 2011 Report Share Posted August 24, 2011 Having used Plan-G, I agree with everything that Jack says! Great little programm Tim - well done! Link to post Share on other sites
allardjd 1,853 Posted August 24, 2011 Report Share Posted August 24, 2011 Double-congratulations are in order - to Jack for a very nicely written and illustrated review and to Tim for a masterful piece of work. Take a bow, both of you. John Link to post Share on other sites
Sabre 28 Posted August 24, 2011 Report Share Posted August 24, 2011 Double-congratulations are in order - to Jack for a very nicely written and illustrated review and to Tim for a masterful piece of work. Take a bow, both of you. John +1 I'll second that :001_th_smiles89: Plan-G is excellent. Link to post Share on other sites
rob16584 42 Posted August 24, 2011 Report Share Posted August 24, 2011 A well deserved award for excellence! Link to post Share on other sites
Tim_A 996 Posted August 24, 2011 Report Share Posted August 24, 2011 Link to post Share on other sites
brett 2,285 Posted August 25, 2011 Report Share Posted August 25, 2011 I thought I found the Holy Grail when I found this program. Use it all the time. Kudos Tim, you brought flight simming to a better level. :001_th_smiles76: Link to post Share on other sites
stu7708 244 Posted August 25, 2011 Report Share Posted August 25, 2011 First of, great review Jack I enjoyed reading it. I think I might need to try this one out soon.. And one small question to Tim. From what I read in the review there's no support for entering SIDs/STARs in to the flight plan. Is that correct? Any chance you might look into addning such a feature utilising Navigraph data? The reason I'm asking is that I'm trying to learn how to master the art of flying those, and just a few of my aircrafts have the ability to add these in to an FMC after planning the route, so must of the time I need to add these before I finish the flight plan... Link to post Share on other sites
ddavid 149 Posted August 25, 2011 Report Share Posted August 25, 2011 Excellent work, Jack - thanks! Cheers - Dai. Link to post Share on other sites
needles 1,010 Posted August 25, 2011 Report Share Posted August 25, 2011 Another great review Jack. Well Done mate. Now all I have to do is learn to use G-Plan properly ha ha. All good fun. I reckon it deserves the Mutleys award definately. Well done again. Brian :001_th_smiles89: Link to post Share on other sites
Tim_A 996 Posted August 25, 2011 Report Share Posted August 25, 2011 there's no support for entering SIDs/STARs in to the flight plan. Is that correct? Any chance you might look into addning such a feature utilising Navigraph data? The reason I'm asking is that I'm trying to learn how to master the art of flying those, and just a few of my aircrafts have the ability to add these in to an FMC after planning the route, so must of the time I need to add these before I finish the flight plan... Not very likely, I'm afraid. Plan-G is specifically designed for VFR GA flying (there's a clue in the banner at the top of this thread...), and while there is some IFR stuff in there, it is only at a level that is appropriate to get you out of trouble in deteriorating weather etc. (Much like the UK IMC rating in that respect). When you start looking at SIDs and STARs and FMCs, you're getting into the realm of deliberate IFR and transport cat flying, and that's way out of scope as far as Plan-G goes. There are lots of very good dedicated IFR flight planners, which I can recommend. Plan-G is a dedicated VFR planner and I don't have the time or resources (or inclination if I'm honest) to try to be all things to all people. Sorry chap. Although of course, if you have the charts, you can still join the dots between the waypoints... Link to post Share on other sites
stu7708 244 Posted August 25, 2011 Report Share Posted August 25, 2011 Thanks for your reply Tim. I just thought I'd ask since Jack mentioned some IFR-functions in the review, and with the banner I was guessing it was a longshot anyway I guess I'll just stick to FS Commander for my IFR-flights, even if I'm not 100% satisfied with it... but I might just give Plan-G a shot for those short hops in the Cessna 208 around the ORBX NA range Link to post Share on other sites
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