Did you know you can support SUPER FLIGHT PLANNER and other software of mine without spending nor donating anything. How?

All you need is a few seconds of your time. You can click on the Google-ad links on top of the page to visit some random sponsor. Therefore, please be kind enough to do it, I don't ask you doing it each time you visit this site, but do it sometimes.

It's totally free of charge for you and will bring me a few encome, which I will use for technical support and buying new software libraries. It will also provide you a random pick of cool sites to visit.

I will be grateful for you forever. TIA!
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.

This is the online version of the SFP IPC Interface Guide. Click on the read more link below to read the full article.
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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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I have changed my mind in coding the new Super Flight Planner IPC system. I had initially started with separated Windows in FS gauge style, showing the various flight data. While still on the infinite IPC test phase...
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Here we are with the periodical Super Flight Planner development report. I have not decided yet for a public release as a unexpected uncompatibility between IPC system and Wilco 777 - the modern Airliner package has forced me to do further investigations (still to no luck). Although this aircraft is so demanding in graphics resources to be pratically unflyable with FSX unless you have a Q6600 quadcore (even with the most powerful CPU you have rather low frame-rate), I don't like my routines being involved in system leaks. However here is what's been done so far (since version 4.0.0.640):

• Fixed: Airways are now handled and drawn correctly. This investigation let me fully understood about methods to handle Flight Simulator routes. Therefore, I'll maybe re-introduce airways insertion on auto routing very soon. *** NOTE ***: since the miscomputation lied in the database wizard you have to rebuild database if you want to obtain correct routes.
• Added: Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn are now shown on the moving map.
• Added: when you use a projection different than spherical, SFP now also display the worldwide GMT time difference table on extreme north/extreme south.
• Changed: Vista compatibility - aircraft data file and logbook database are now stored to User folder. Since we need to run the program as Administrator under Vista in order to write to Program Files directory, this is from now on being avoided. It also enhances Super Flight Planner by making it fully multi user. As a matter of fact, each user can now have his own aircraft list and logbook database (and a single the logbook database is already multiuser itself!).
• Fixed: Re-added Islas Baleares map layer to installation package (which I forgot to include in the former release).
• Added: new FSUIPC feature: Tune frequency. If a Vor or an ILS is selected on the moving map, the command gets enabled. In case FS is running, SFP send its selected NAV frequency to FS NAV2 radio. If NAV is an ILS, SFP will set NAV1 frequency as well as align NAV1 OBS to the correct ILS bearing.
• Added: when saving a flight plan, the saved file is written to Recent Flight Plan List (before: wrote only upon opening plans)
• Added: there is a Save Flight Plan and Save Flight Plan As feature now (before = Save As only).
• Added: When printing Flight Plans, SFP now prints ILS courses on closest navaids page.
• Added: Flight Plan Details panel, just under the flight plan listview, now shows the estimated required fuel in LBS . Note, this is approximated. When planning fuel, you have also to take care about pax and baggage load, hold time, alternate, etc. so this value may be totally different.
• Fixed: Super Flight Planner was uncorrectly showing descent rate instead of descent speed while calculating final waypoints.
• Fixed: when unchecking Use Toc/Bod switch, SFP is stripping TOC and BOD (correct routine). It wasn't stripping TOC/Bod, however.
• Added: new IPC link option: the status window, to monitor general flight data, such as speed, location, altitude...
• Added: new IPC link option: the GPS monitor. This is a simple text style-like display which monitors GPS data with waypoint incrementing/decrementing.
• Added: new IPC link option: the Autopilot monitor. This completely replaces the old Fly-To command, as you are allowed to control Flight Simulator Autopilot directly.
• Added: Database Wizard has now logging capabilities. Just to be made clear, this won't solve scan problems. It will help me however to discover offending BGLs or unhandled situations more easily.

As you can see, the list of new additions, fixes and changes is rather long, therefore it's well worth the wait.
Have fun,
Alex