I have released Super Flight Planner 4 RC5. You can download it from the download section and I'm also uploading it to avsim now (for those who prefer to download it from there). You can find this release's changes in the notes.html file you can display after installation. And, as always, technical support is available in the forum. Enjoy.

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Alex.

I have uploaded a prebuild database for Super Flight Planner 4 RC4 on avsim.com. It should be available in a few hours.
Users who have troubles running SFP4 Database Wizard may use temporarily, until I find out something more.
Just go to avsim.com and look for sfp_fsx_accel.zip

The IPC User Guide for SFP4 is now available in the SFP DOCS blog (you can easily access it using the Blog Latest Entries on Web Page left side (or, click here ). Sorry for delay but I had to reinstall the whole Operating System from scratch on my PC and it took some time.
Cheers, Alex.

I have released Super Flight Planner 4, RC 4. Please find it in the download section, or go to avsim.com (if it's not online yet, wait a few hours). Unfortunately I'm very tired, I've been working all day to prepare the distro and I'm not willing to finish documentation about new IPC now: please wait tomorrow or after tomorrow.

Just one useful info: SFP is able to fly the current plan loaded in Flight Simulator (instead of writing routines to build my own GPS I tune the autopilot heading value to GPS Course to Steer as returned from FS: it's simpler and ensures you never go off-route with consequent ATC intervention as it's the case with 3rd party add-ons using theit own means). To enable auto-fly, turn on the IPC monitor and check the autofly field (you can find it by pressing the Assist button). Later on, enable autopilot in FS (press Z) and turn on heading hold. This will alow SFP to drive the aircraft using FS GPS Data.

Expect other info over the next few days.
Alex.

I'm pleased to announce that latest Super Flight Planner 4 release will be available starting Sunday Night (GMT +2).
It's been a long time of testing and hard coding; beware it still has bugs and limitations left, which will be detailed in the hystory file. I'll write down some kind of docs about the new IPC system tomorrow (despite the bugs left this is now the most robust code section and you absolutely have to experience it), and then release.

Also be aware that there will be very few updates to SFP 4 family from now on, just because I've started to write Super Flight Planner 5: this features a complete code rewrite, with porting from Object Pascal to C/C++ - the good new is that I can rely on a very robust and performant foundation library and C is my primary language...
Here is a few details of the new features that will be available and which I'm already working on:

• Powered by Microsoft Virtual Earth. All the power of Virtual Earth available, including 3D views.
• New flight plan engine with auto computed airways and/or direct-to flight plans
• Climb steps profile
• Realistic aircraft support, with importing from FS planes included: this works through a gauge which when activated into an aircraft, logs all the parameters to a log file and then extrapolate the contents to an aircraft data file ready for use with SFP.
• NAT and PACOTS support: this is also currently in progress with SFP 4
• AI Traffic display on the MS Virtual Earth Map: this is also in progress with SFP 4
• Full X-Plane support, if possible with IPC link

As we may see, there are already several foundaments to produce the Flight Planner of the future. Meantime I will keep to maintain SFP4, although not as often as before.
Ciao, Alex.

I have released a Flight Plan Export module for Ernie Alston's Integrated Simavionics, while waiting for the new SFP. You can download it from the SFP4 Add-ons section. Tomorrow will also upload a flight plan export module for PMDG 747-400. Note that these modules will be integrated by default with next release (sorry, still working hard on it).

I am in the process of adding X-Plane 9 in the list of simulators supported by SFP. Yes, I have seen XPL9 and I'm impressed, and I'm a bit fed-up with MS FS which has given me a lot of problems since FS2004. It's not a lengthy operation since X-Plane database is available for free on the Net, and that's one of the main reasons for the Database Wizard rewrite.

Having said that, I would you be so grateful to my dear X-Plane friends if they could stop begging me for X-Plane support. It takes time to reply one hundred times to same question. Don't ask anything, just put me and keep me at work

The Super Flight Planner new release is in the air (finally, I would say) and I'm working quite hard to tune it: there are still a few bugs which I'd like to handle before freeing the bird. Don't think I have been disappeared during these months! Instead I've been working quite hard on the improvement process I initiated last Fall and I have always been here monitoring the forum. There are a lot of unanswered mail posts and answers I had no time to reply, but I swear I have read all of them more than once!

Now, if you click on the "Read More" link on bottom of this article entry, you will see a long list of changes and a couple of screenshots showing how Super Flight Planner looks now.
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Well, guys, I have good news regarding the next flight planner release: if all goes well, I'll be ready to distribute the last release candidate within end of this month.

It's been a long and busy time since Super Flight Planner project resumal (almost one year spent in research, coding and testing) and I'm starting to be a bit low on fuel. To avoid running out of fuel I'll try to schedule the final release for about mid of June. Then, I'll have the whole summer left to go resting and playing in the sun, while you'll surely get busy doing your flights

Before releasing I'll make a post here explaining what you will get along with this RC. Meantime, I see that since last modifications on the source code, the Wilco Boeing 777-200 hasn't crashed any longer; for today I  have had my amount of satisfaction hereby.

Stay tuned.