Flight planning software

Ross, sorry for the delay in responding.

No, I don't have a problem. However, you have to request the weather
information via the flight planner AND you have to have an account set up
with DUAT. Immediately upon receiving the weather, the NAV LOG should update
automatically. Hope that helps. I will be checking back again and if you
have any question please feel free to ask. If necessary, I do whatever
research I can to help you, but the AOPA flight planner should do everything
you want, with a few exceptions :-).

Harry

"Ross Richardson" wrote in message
...
Harry,

Do you have any problems with AOPA RTFP giving you a plan without winds.
I cannot make the program use the winds. I can go to the weather tab and
use all the features there. But in the plan flight mode, it just will
not go out and get the winds as necessary. I am working with AOPA on the
issue. Currently, they are stumped. Until then I continue to use Cirrus
5.0 in the internet mode.

Ross
KSWI

Harry Gordon wrote:

I don't know if this is the one you are talking about but you might take
a
look at the one on WWW.LANDINGS.COM . Also, if you are a member of AOPA
they
have one that is not too bad. I use the AOPA one all the time.

Harry
PP-ASEL
San Antonio, TX

"GE" wrote in message
...

Recently, I found a link to a very simple, yet useful flight planning

sight.

If I recall properly I was able to enter the departure and destination
airports, and it calculated initial heading, distance, etc. I believe
that

I

saw it here. Anybody know what I'm talking about? Thanks in advance for

your

help.

I have found the magic decoder ring that makes the AOPA RTFP work
correctly. As folks have said, plan the flight, go to the weather tab
and get the weather, and the nav log and flight plans should update
correctly. Well, they do ONLY if when getting the weather you ask for
FAA weather. You cannot ask for only Plain Language. I clicked on FAA
weather along with the Plain language and it worked. I closed the
application and started all over again with asking for only the Plain
Language weather and the navlog and flight plan did NOT update. Double
clicking on the weather box again I checked the FAA weather and
connected again and the nav log and flight plan worked.

YOU MUST REQUEST THE FAA WEATHER.

Harry Gordon wrote:
Ross, sorry for the delay in responding.

No, I don't have a problem. However, you have to request the weather
information via the flight planner AND you have to have an account set up
with DUAT. Immediately upon receiving the weather, the NAV LOG should update
automatically. Hope that helps. I will be checking back again and if you
have any question please feel free to ask. If necessary, I do whatever
research I can to help you, but the AOPA flight planner should do everything
you want, with a few exceptions :-).

Harry

"Ross Richardson" wrote in message
...

Harry,

Do you have any problems with AOPA RTFP giving you a plan without winds.
I cannot make the program use the winds. I can go to the weather tab and
use all the features there. But in the plan flight mode, it just will
not go out and get the winds as necessary. I am working with AOPA on the
issue. Currently, they are stumped. Until then I continue to use Cirrus
5.0 in the internet mode.

Ross
KSWI

Harry Gordon wrote:


I don't know if this is the one you are talking about but you might take

a

look at the one on WWW.LANDINGS.COM . Also, if you are a member of AOPA

they

have one that is not too bad. I use the AOPA one all the time.

Harry
PP-ASEL
San Antonio, TX

"GE" wrote in message
. ..


Recently, I found a link to a very simple, yet useful flight planning

sight.


If I recall properly I was able to enter the departure and destination
airports, and it calculated initial heading, distance, etc. I believe

that

I


saw it here. Anybody know what I'm talking about? Thanks in advance for

your


help.









--
Regards,

Ross
C-172F 180 hp
KSWI

I have also had problems with Golden Eagle program and have deleted it.
Cirrus continues to work fine. Hope they don't quit supporting it.

Jerry in NC


"Ross Richardson" wrote in message
...
I have issues with Golden Eagle also that I have worked with CSC and they
turned me to Jepp. Still not resolved. Good ol' Cirrus works so good.

Chris Ehlbeck wrote:

Ross Richardson wrote:

I know I can do that, but according to AOPA this program should pick up
the winds aloft and calculate your flight plan. The "tech" that I have
talked to said it worked fine for him on the same route that I have been
experimenting with.

Ross

Chris Ehlbeck wrote:

Ross Richardson wrote:

Harry,

Do you have any problems with AOPA RTFP giving you a plan without
winds. I cannot make the program use the winds. I can go to the
weather tab and use all the features there. But in the plan flight
mode, it just will not go out and get the winds as necessary. I am
working with AOPA on the issue. Currently, they are stumped. Until
then I continue to use Cirrus 5.0 in the internet mode.

Ross
KSWI

Harry Gordon wrote:

I don't know if this is the one you are talking about but you might
take a
look at the one on WWW.LANDINGS.COM . Also, if you are a member of
AOPA they
have one that is not too bad. I use the AOPA one all the time.

Harry
PP-ASEL
San Antonio, TX

"GE" wrote in message
...

Recently, I found a link to a very simple, yet useful flight
planning





sight.

If I recall properly I was able to enter the departure and
destination
airports, and it calculated initial heading, distance, etc. I
believe that





I

saw it here. Anybody know what I'm talking about? Thanks in advance
for





your

help.






Ross,
I saw this somewhere else. Click on the course "line" and then right
click on the course line. You can then pick properties and you can
input the wind data from the briefing. The drawback is that it uses
those winds for the whole flight.
Chris


It seems I've never been able to get it to import the winds automatically
either. Which is why most of the time, I'll use Golden Eagle.

Ross, thank you. After reading your note, I remembered someone a long time
ago had mentioned the same thing. I always request the FAA weather so I
guess I had forgotten about that little inconsistency.

Glad you found the answer.

Harry

"Ross" wrote in message
news:dHY_f.7605$Q92.1640@trnddc04...
I have found the magic decoder ring that makes the AOPA RTFP work
correctly. As folks have said, plan the flight, go to the weather tab
and get the weather, and the nav log and flight plans should update
correctly. Well, they do ONLY if when getting the weather you ask for
FAA weather. You cannot ask for only Plain Language. I clicked on FAA
weather along with the Plain language and it worked. I closed the
application and started all over again with asking for only the Plain
Language weather and the navlog and flight plan did NOT update. Double
clicking on the weather box again I checked the FAA weather and
connected again and the nav log and flight plan worked.

YOU MUST REQUEST THE FAA WEATHER.

Harry Gordon wrote:
Ross, sorry for the delay in responding.

No, I don't have a problem. However, you have to request the weather
information via the flight planner AND you have to have an account set
up
with DUAT. Immediately upon receiving the weather, the NAV LOG should
update
automatically. Hope that helps. I will be checking back again and if you
have any question please feel free to ask. If necessary, I do whatever
research I can to help you, but the AOPA flight planner should do
everything
you want, with a few exceptions :-).

Harry

"Ross Richardson" wrote in message
...

Harry,

Do you have any problems with AOPA RTFP giving you a plan without winds.
I cannot make the program use the winds. I can go to the weather tab and
use all the features there. But in the plan flight mode, it just will
not go out and get the winds as necessary. I am working with AOPA on the
issue. Currently, they are stumped. Until then I continue to use Cirrus
5.0 in the internet mode.

Ross
KSWI

Harry Gordon wrote:


I don't know if this is the one you are talking about but you might
take

a

look at the one on WWW.LANDINGS.COM . Also, if you are a member of AOPA

they

have one that is not too bad. I use the AOPA one all the time.

Harry
PP-ASEL
San Antonio, TX

"GE" wrote in message
. ..


Recently, I found a link to a very simple, yet useful flight planning

sight.


If I recall properly I was able to enter the departure and destination
airports, and it calculated initial heading, distance, etc. I believe

that

I


saw it here. Anybody know what I'm talking about? Thanks in advance
for

your


help.









--
Regards,

Ross
C-172F 180 hp
KSWI