Planning a flight

A flight plan serves the purpose to know from where via what legs you plan to receive the destination airport. PATHy facilitates this process.

In IFR flights, you will fly from nav aid to navaid - in VFR flights you will fly based on the topography. If you need realism, then you need to buy real maps and plan the flight based on this data. PATHy displays only data that is relevant to (XP) flight simming.

Planning a flight in PATHy always follows the same sequence of tasks:

First, you “file” the flight by supplying the trip name, PIC, aircraft and come detail data like the proposed departure time and average fuel consumption.

Once this data is entered in the FlightPlan window, you begin to plan the legs.

Ok, we now know how to center the map and how to zoom and
scroll, and we have filed our flight in the FlightPlan window.

Let’s go on and plan our first leg. Adding a leg can be
done either manually (drawing the leg), or by “jumping” from nav
aid to nav aid. Our first flight is an IFR flight, so we use the “jump” method. The “draw” method is explained in the VFR chapter.

Back To HabakukSoft

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