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On Sun, 10 Aug 2003 12:42:49 +0000, Mark Manes wrote:
I've been using FliteSoft Pro for 4 or 5 yrs. I have considered trying some others, mainly FlightStar, but FliteSoft does everything I need it to I played with Flightsoft, Flightstar, Destination Direct, DigAV, and another one that I can't quite remember the name of, the author posts in the rec.aviation.* newsgroups about it. I am so close to remembering what it's name is, but I can't get it. It's cheap compared to the others, has most of their features, but I don't like it's interface. It does work fine though. They all deliver a product that can tell you how to get from a to b and give you accurate times in doing so. What I believe seperates them is how they display weather information. At the top of the heap is DigAV (now discontinued) and FlightStar. Next would be FlightSoft and the rest meander in follow the leader format. No Earth shaking differences once you get past the Flightsoft/Flightstar level. I have used the online planning software and it's nice, has some nice features, but the drawback is they are sometimes very slow to load, and a pain to update a complex flight plan. The next software I buy will be Jeppesen's Flightstar because it's weather graphics are lightyears ahead of any of the others, plus it's vector charts are very nice in the amount of topographic data they display. You can't go wrong with the newest version of Flightstar which is due to come out soon, demo'd at Airventure. |
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