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Like Robert, I also have been using Foreflight as my flight planning addon, although this is quite expensive and developed for real-world pilots. I have also used FSBuild and continue to use that to convert my Foreflight routes into fsx/p3d flightplans that I then load into my sim and ultimately into SPAACARS through its "Flight Plan" button. Foreflight offers fuel-planning feature, but that is dependent on a number of variables you must enter ie. aircraft, distance, fuel burn rate, etc. If those are off - well, garbage in - garbage out. I do like that it calculates head/tail winds for the flight based on real-world weather, which I use in sim with ActiveSky Next. The Aerosoft CRJ 700 I've been flying recently also calculates fuel, but I still got nailed many times on fuel over/under penalty. I believe this is primarily due to my own laziness for not more accurately ensuring the integrity of the data used for the calculations.

Foreflight has routes (a route button that displays available routes - ATC cleared and other routes), I'm not sure what the difference is, not being a real pilot, but I suspect these change as do the charts regularly since these are used by real pilots and must be kept current. It also shows which airports are IFR/VFR by red or green dots. Hovering over them will give the actual visibility I think. I've used the flight-following with the available addon, but stopped because it takes some of the fun out it's so easy to follow the progress superimposed on a VFR chart. I only wish it could show AI traffic.

I'm guessing Robert knows the SPA database pretty well since he and Naresh are the 'fathers' of SPA and developed most of the databases and original code for the site. Bill is correct that the SPA flights database are only To/From - the routes are up to the individual pilot. <span >Yoland's Special Ops flights are not in a database and are therefore not 'searchable' or possible for import/export in their current form. </span> I generally use Foreflight for the routes and then enter that into FSBuild to generate the file suitable for loading into FSX/P3d.