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# 1.1. Planning

## 1.1.1. fplan

The fplan application is designed to assist general aviation pilots in creating flight plans for cross country flights in powered aircraft. It reads a planfile containing a description of the flight: departure and destination airports, navigation aids, intermediate waypoints, winds aloft, fuel consumption rates, and produces a flight plan including wind corrected magnetic headings, distance, estimated time and fuel consumption for each leg, latitude, longitude and VOR fixes for each checkpoint, etc. A graphical preview of the flight is available on systems with X11 Windows and the XView Toolkit.

- Author: Steve Tynor

- Maintainer: John C. Peterson `<jcp@eskimo.com>`

- Latest release: 1.4.2, 1999/05/01

- Copyright: GPL

- Home Page: http://www.ibiblio.org/fplan/

## 1.1.2. Flight Navigation Planner

Flight Navigation Planner lets you make flight plans based on known airports, navaids, fixes, or cities. You can use the sectional charts, wacs, or the vector/terrain planning charts. It calculates headings, winds, time, and fuel. It features Airways-based Auto-Routing, Climb and Descent calculations (a/c type based), Fuel Stop Planning, Auto-Route around MOAS and Restricted Airspace, Hi-Res Weather Radar Overlay, Viewing of current sectional, wac, and IFR charts, the ability to see a route over TFRs, detailed nexrad radar overlays over your routes, Terrain Profiles with cloud ceilings, and the ability to upload flight plans to GPS.

- Author: rvsc

- Latest release: 104, 2004/03/08

- Copyright: Unknown

- Home Page: http://fnp.berlios.de

## 1.1.3. FlyWay

Flyway allows the user to find and enter U.S. waypoints (airports, navaids, and fixes), then it calculates courses, wind corrections, and travel times. Information about the waypoints is provided (including frequencies, elevation, fuel availability, and runway descriptions). The route data can also be used to fill in an editable FAA Flight Plan form, fetch basic weather information from the internet, and display a very rough map.

- Author: Doug Bell

- Latest release: 0.4.1, 2005/12/14

- Copyright: GPL

- Home Page: http://www.bellz.org/flyway/

## 1.1.4. OpenFlyers

OpenFlyers is an aircrafts (airplanes, gliders, ulms, etc.) online booking system opensource for flying clubs and more generally for everyone who need to share one or more aircrafts planification.

This booking system is based on the PHP language and the MySQL database. It is opensource (under GPL licence) and can be freely downloaded.

- Author: OpenFlyers devteam `<devteam@openflyers.org>`

- Latest release: 1.3.0, 2006/09/06

- Copyright: GPL

- Home Page: http://www.bellz.org/flyway/

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