Flight planner

[a1]

How do i plan muiltiple destinations on the flight simulator flight planner?

[Sir_Crashalot]

Hi A1,

Unfortunatly it's not possible to plan more than 1 destination in FS9 using the flightplanner. I think it is possible when you use FSNavigator (payware add-on) but I'm not sure about that.

Crash

[Reap]

Depends on whether you are flying VFR or IFR, Airways with Sids and Stars or direct GPS.
Unfortunately flight sims navigation has very little to do wth reality.
I don't know how much of this you know so I will assume nothing.

Most commercial flights are done under IFR rules, most large airports have special procedures for departure and arrival aircraft, routes that handle the aircraft to/from an airway (an invisible road if you like).  The airways run between VOR's, intersections and other navigational points. Flight sim  unfortunately has non of this.

So, if you wish to be at all realistic, you need 3rd party sources. Personally I fly on the Vatsim Server where we try and be as realistic as possible. Proper navigation software is indispensible.
First of all I can highly recommend FSNavigator, it is payware but it gives you all you need to navigate the aircraft, you need to keep the Sids and Stars and airacs up to date on it though.
I cannot do without this piece of software.
More recently though there has become available FSCommander, also payware which I havent tried as yet.

If you fly in the UK get UKRoute, it is freeware and a fantastic piece of software, plans your route from A to B in the UK and gives you the sid and stars and airways to use.
But you will need one of the above to make use of it.

[Nav]

a1, you can't do it before you leave, but there's actually a simple method of doing it while you're flying. Going from 'A' to 'B' and back to 'A', just file a flightplan from A to B and fly it. Then just create a new flightplan from B to A IN THE AIR and fly back to A!

As Reap says though, you didn't mention whether you were flying VFR or IFR? If VFR, just call up the Flight Planner screen, make the new flightplan, and follow it. If flying IFR, use the option in the ATC screen to 'Cancel IFR'. You'll find that after that, the ATC window offers an option to 'file an IFR Flight Plan' or something. Click on that and the Flight Planning screen will come up - just make sure that the new plan starts from somewhere near your actual position, and the altitude roughly matches your actual altitude, and ATC will vector you to your new destination (i.e. home).

[garymbuska]

FSNAV will allow you to have more than one airport but you will need the registered version. With the default FS flight planner what I do is to make a flight from say KJAX to KATL once I land at KATL I than choose to taxi for take off again rather than taxi to the gate. I than will load my other flight plan from Katl to say KJFK this is only one way to do that. There are other options as well. 8-)