Hi. Just a short question. Would it be ok to fly together with a friend as formation? But in such a way that I'm the lead aircraft and doing the radio com with atc and he just follows me? Want to give him a look and feel into flying with VATSIM without him having to learn the lingo first. Shared cockpit is for me a too big of a hassle to setup. ;)
Hello all together.
I'm currently working on a briefing/flight plan tool for VFR flying. It's like a simbrief but especially for VFR flying. And I would be interested what you think about it.
I know that so many of us are flying airliners and IFR but still I have times where I love flying VFR in a small plane and just relax. I do love simbrief but I always have the feeling that it's IFR centered and that is good. Together with the maps it's a perfect map. So cudos to Navigraph.
But I wanted to have something for VFR...to I present you the first screenshots of "simCAVOK". Maybe your future tool to plan your VFR flights.
simCAVOK will let you plan your VFR flight. Just enter the departure airport, destination airport, plane information and what type of routeing you want like direct, VOR/DME or your route with your waypoints. Than you hit "plan flight" and the current METARs are pulled including VFR/IFR/.... status. The airspace is checked and shows you CTRs, TMZ, RMZ, Restricted airspaces so you can plan around them or check the limits. Fuel consumption is calculated and checked. And currently I'm working minimum altitude checks on the route.
You will be able to save it to file to import it, print/export it as PDF/HTML or prefile it to a VATSIM/IVAO. You can save the route for later and some more features.
I plan on supporting MSFS, X-Plane, Prepar3D, VATSIM, IVAO regarding export and prefiling.
Here are a few screenshots:
Flight plan from EDXW / Sylt to EDDW / Bremen:
Route checks like WX, airspace, fuel, navlog:
Manual planing:
airspace / airport / VOR/DME/NDB information using hover:
So, what do you VFR flyer think of this?
