Flight Planning and Dispatch Guide

From PMDG Ops

Flight Planning and Dispatch Links Appendix


These links link to a variety of very useful sites for all stages of flight planning. I am hoping if anyone has other useful links, they might like to also put them into this appendix below the others - I almost certainly don't know them all! The links are organised into categories relevant to certain stages of planning a flight. They will be used in this order in my upcoming flight planning guide (about 1/3 written) as a basis for obtaining information to create a flight plan with.


Section 1 - Enroute Weather, Organised Track Systems, Enroute Supplements & Enroute Notams

Australia ATIS - maximum information about your chosen airport.

Australia Bureau of Meteorology - Aviation WX.

Australian Organised Track Structure.

North Atlantic Tracks - North Atlantic Advisory published twice-daily by ATCSCC

NOAA Aviation Weather Centre.

NOAA Worldwide Weather Aloft.


Section 2 - Route Planning

RouteFinder - Route generator for PC flight simulation use

FSBuild - builds flight plans for a variety of flight simulators

PLANS_WORLDWIDE - AVSIM FLIGHT PLAN FORUM

PLANS_WORLDWIDE - 7000 ASSORTED (courtesy Koen of the Avsim Flight Plan Forum)

PLANS_WORLDWIDE - AVSIM FILE LIBRARY (search for "flight plan*")

PLANS_AUSTRALIA_INTERNATIONAL_PACIFIC/TASMAN - VATPAC

PLANS_AUSTRALIA_DOMESTIC - VATPAC

PLANS_AUSTRALIA_DOMESTIC - LEVEL D FORUMS

PLANS_NEW ZEALAND_DOMESTIC - VATPAC

PLANS_USA FAA NFDC PREFERRED ROUTES DATABASE

PLANS_USA_INTERNATIONAL/DOMESTIC - FLIGHTAWARE

PLANS_USA_NEW YORK - EUROPE

Section 3 - Fuel Planning

747-400X Fuel Planner

Section 4 - Take-off and Landing Performance Planning

TOPCAT - brings a professional approach to flight planning by bringing into a single application all of the calculations required to plan for safe and repeatable take-offs and landings.