Flight Planning

[ivormills]

I know everyone enjoys Flight Simulator in different ways, some enjoy long haul flights, others short haul.

I myself am a short haul person and enjoy flying my 737 IFR on relatively short routes. One thing that I always find unrealistic is the flight planner. As far as I can see, you can only plan the outward leg, when you arrive at your destination and disembark your passengers, it would be nice to just do a turaround from the same gate and fly the IFR return leg. I know you can enter a new flightplan once airborn again, but this is a bit unrealistic.

I seem to remember that in FS98 or was it FS5 (showing my age!) the flight planner had a 'via' setting on it, so you could do a round trip, via your destination, or a number of legs with one flightplan.

Maybe someone has a work round for this, or maybe in FSX?

Ivor

[G-EORGE]

Once you have landed, can you not go through the toolbar to flight planner, select your return destination , when the window appears asking if u want to move the aircraft to the departure location click no (so the flight plan starts from where the a/c is - at the gate you taxied in to)

Not sure if this acutally works - havent tried it myself; but its worth a go.  The wording for the commands may be slightly different but you'll see what I mean

[Papa9571]

Yes it does work. I fly Detroit to Chicago and back with a 737 on a regular basis and all i do is call up the next flight plan on flight planner. When asks if I want to move the aircraft I always say no and continue on.

And to keep it realistic I usually wait 45 minutes to 1 hour for the aircraft to be serviced and passengers to unload and load.

[ivormills]

Sounds good to me, I will give it a go.

[TheBod1357]

I enjoy the same kind of flying as you do, and one way I like to do things is to, even before I hit the tarmac, create and save each leg of the flights I am going to venture that day, So if I am flying from O'hare to Minneapolis, then on to Omaha, and back to O'hare, I create each plan, and then after each landing and taxi, I open and load the next flight plan, that way I dont end up mixing up AP ID's while trying to keep a schedule.