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Flights preparation
by the ROTW "Nav" group (*)
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This new heading proposes a perfection of the flights preparation with Fly!.
Indeed, in order to improve the realism of Fly!, it was attractive to gather all skills of our team and to optimize the use of all existing tools.

Our objective is neither to pile all statutory texts nor to write a treatise on air navigation.
We created these pages so that the virtual pilots who wish to fly closer to the reality find practical and useful advices to prepare meticulously their flights; so we especially privileged detailed examples, to give each one the desire "to fly differently".

This heading is not set; it will evolve with the creation of new tools, or the perfection of the existing ones, and especially with all of you, users, who will make suggestions, criticisms and remarks in Fly.Simvol forum.

And why not, if you deal with this technics, someday we shall meet on IVAO or on VATSIM for net-Fly!ing together, in order to try to test all this ;-)

Have good prepared flights ! ;-)

Subjects Comments and links

The documentation:
Links towards data sites

"En route" maps, VFR maps, IFR arrivals and departures (sids and stars), landing maps, airfield plans, routes for helicopters, rules.... we find all this on internet.
Here are useful links (and you can send us new links if we missed something, thank you in advance !).

The preparation tool:
VolNav

VolNav, created and regularly improved by Didier Rigault, is an application allowing to prepare, in detail, a navigation, by using all possible data, then to save all this in a ".sit" file that Fly! II will use. The tools of navigation in flight in Fly! II.

A pressure converter hPa/inches

Now you can calculate QNH et QFE in both systems.

The on board navigation
tools in Fly! II

A summary of all "on board" systems existing in Fly! II, and used tricks (several pages to be visited).
Dont't miss the pages relatives to maps !

VFR

How to prepare a classic VFR flight
- example 1 : flight from Brest to Quimper - (as soon as possible)
- example 2 : flight from Gap to Cannes - (as soon as possible)

Controlled VFR

How to prepare a flight into a controlled VFR space
- example 1 : bypass of Paris - (as soon as possible)
- example 2 : crossing from Cannes to Ajaccio - (as soon as possible)

Sid-Stars
according to Dafifs

Some procedures for IFR departure (SID), arrival (STAR) and landing for hundreds of whole world airfields !
These data exist in two versions:
* version "VolNav" for all planes from Fly! II
* version "PMDG" for use with 757 and 777 from PMDG (planes sold by this publisher).

IFR flight

How to prepare an IFR flight - (as soon as possible)
- example 1 : flight from Nice to Ajaccio - (as soon as possible)
- example 2 : flight from Bordeaux to Marseille - (as soon as possible)

(*) Group composed of "Pacha", "Azzurro", Laurent, "TJ" and Didier.
Reading panel: "Bolto" and "TSU" (military pilots), "Koala" (professional air-traffic controller).

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