Google Earth Flight Planner

[Jakemaster]

I remember someone posting about this a while ago.  It was a program or something that let you load a flight plan into google earth.  At the time I didnt care cause I never really fly a plan, but now with my 1900 flying I kinda want it so that I can really see my flightplan instead of the stupid fs map.

[garymbuska]

Ther is a article in January issue of computer pilot that talks about this. You need to down load three programs MyFsGoogleEarth-1-0-1.zip and MyFsTools-1-4.zip two of these programs can be downloaded from http://www.elbiah.de/flusi
and Google-Earth from http://earth.google.com
If you do not subcribe to computer pilot I think you can find it at most book stores.
The article is rather lengthy and to much for me to try to type.
But it is a cool program that lets you see your plane over a actual map of the earth. Not sure how old the images are but from what I can see they are not that old.
 8)

[beaky]

Don't remember where I got it (here, perhaps?), but the free utility I use is called flips 1.1; it is awesome.
Doesn't show you heading, etc. but it's just kinda cool to "prefly" your plan; very handy for determining your minimum enroute altitude (you can opt to see a shaded "curtain" extending down from your course line; shows you if you will clear all terrain and by how much, to some extent).