Hello,

I searched the forum for some recommendations and I've taken note, but a lot of people seem to want something for flying airliners.  While I'd like to do that someday I'm mainly interested in something geared more for general aviation.  I recently purchased the Flight1 Beech King Air B200 and would like to fly that for a while.  I'm interested in flying from KPAE in Washington to places in California or Arizona or Colorado, places that I'd actually want to fly to when I win the lottery and actually can afford a King Air.    So if you have a favorite, preferably free, but not a total requirement, and maybe a good weather app that works well with it, I'd love to hear about them.

Thanks

This is my free favorite.  www.iflightplanner.com

pfpx from aerosoft includes performace / routes for the B200.

Hi dkpilot,

Both LittleNavMap and Plan-G are completely free and are perfect for GA flight planning. 

Regards

Jack

and this freebie.....http://vfrflight.org/

One of the best for GA or any flight is free, and that is SkyVector .  

Put your departure and destination airports, then place the altitude you'll be flying and it will give you a selection of the best routes and place them right on the chart.

Hi Folks,

Little Navmap is fantastic and a true labor of love... Alex is doing an incredible job with it... My favorite feature - it databases all your addon scenery from your scenery.cfg - then allows you to display ONLY those airports you have improved scenery for... Really helps when trying to decide where to fly... Completely free...

https://albar965.github.io/littlenavmap.html

 

FltPlan GO - if you have a tablet and are looking for a fully functional EFB which is also free - this is the only free source of geo-referenced approach plates and taxi diagrams I am aware of... Support Windows, Android, and Apple tablets - for FSX, P3D, and XP... Caveat: You need to live and fly in North America to get it... FltPlan.com also has performance and fuel burn profiles for just about every GA and BizJet aircraft ever made - straight from the POH/AFM...

https://flttrack.fltplan.com/TutorialPDFs/FtPlanGo-iPad-Users-Manual.pdf

 

I use both on every flight - best of luck...

Regards,

Scott

  

 

I fully agree with Scott.  Due to long term familiarization I use Skyvector to graphically determine my route based on its charts, then I cut and paste that route line at FltPlan.com and save the route.  That pushes it to the FltPlanGo app on my iPad.  That app is feature rich.  After three years I still find new features to use.

I highly recommend you take time to read through the long discussion at the following link. Every page there has something to provide.

https://www.avsim.com/forums/topic/471387-fltplan-go-app-for-ipad-way-cool/

Wow... I'm sure glad I found the Avsim website.  I really appreciate all of your recommendations.  Since they're predicting nothing but rain for some time here in the Seattle area, looks like I have time to do some downloading and experimenting.

Thank you.

On 1/29/2018 at 9:08 PM, Hubinwa said:

This is my free favorite.  www.iflightplanner.com

I've been using skyvector for years and have been happy with it. I never heard of iflightplanner before but I like the way it displays weather and has the option for a satellite image background. This will be very helpful to visualize flight plans in mountainous terrain. Thanks for posting this Hubinwa.

Ted

On 1/29/2018 at 11:08 PM, Hubinwa said:

This is my free favorite.  www.iflightplanner.com

Did I do something wrong? I believe my iFlightplanner was free for 30 days, then required a paid subscription.

Frank,   you can upgrade to a paid membership but I just have the basic free one. I've had it for much more than 30 days. I just signed up with my e-mail.

12 hours ago, Hubinwa said:

Frank,   you can upgrade to a paid membership but I just have the basic free one. I've had it for much more than 30 days. I just signed up with my e-mail.

I'd have to look back to see why I did not reup after the trial period.  Does free access allow you to profile aircraft (performance)?  Does it allow you to export nav logs to the two Garmin formats (GNS, GTN).  There was some function that drew me to try it that was only going to be available in the paid membership.

 Does free access allow you to profile aircraft (performance)?   Yes, I have a list of my favorite planes and I can insert whichever from a dropdown into my flight plan and the software makes the performance adjustments.

 Does it allow you to export nav logs to the two Garmin formats (GNS, GTN).   I have not tried that.

Very convenient site to use, the interactive weather map is also cool. 

36 minutes ago, Hubinwa said:

 Does it allow you to export nav logs to the two Garmin formats (GNS, GTN).   I have not tried that.

OK. Went back and poked around.  I can still access the free service, though I had to scroll down to find it below the paid options I was being presented.  My aircraft are still there, as well as previous flights.  What I did confirm is that ability use the export features is a premium feature, and requires a paid membership.  The Export feature provides exporting nav logs in Garmin GTN format (.gfp) or Garmin GNS format (.flp) for direct import into real world Garmin products, as well as into the newer Reality XP GTN or GNS gauges. 

That is what I went there for and it went away after 30 days.