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 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