Planning VFR flights

There are many occasions where you can’t rely your flight plan
on VOR’s, NDB’s or airports. Imagine you want to lead a wing on a
sight seeing tour over your local scenery... how do you describe
the flight path?

Easy with PATHy! Here’s how:

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1) What is PATHy
2.) Requirements
3.) Registration
4.) Tutorial
- Installation
- Navigation / Controls
- Exploring the windows
- Centering the map
- Measuring distances
  /headings
- Planning a flight
- Using airports
- Using VORs and NDBs
- Adding legs
- Printing the MFD
- Printing the flight plan
- Saving the flight plan
- Working with maps
- Planning VFR flights
5.) Download / Updates
6.) Support

First, select the “Draw Path” checkbox. If this checkbox is
checked, then each leg you draw is instantly converted into a
flight leg with the proper coordinates, heading etc.

So, you point to the start location, click and hold the button,
move the pointer to the end location on the map, and release
the button.


The leg will be drawn and the data added to the FlightPlan
window listbox.

VFR flight planning on top of the map

You can now use both techniques to define legs: the jump
method (from ap/nav to ap/nav) or the “Draw Legs” method
(waypoint1 to waypoint 2). The map & DrawLegs feature make it
easy to describe a pretty accurate flight path through the
scenery. Load a map, and draw the plan while looking at the env
topo below. It can’t get easier.


In the PATHy 1.0 release, the drawn legs are not matched to any nearby navaids or airports. So, drawing legs does not give you any information about the nearby navaid frequencies.