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For those of you who prefer to use the FS flight planner we have
provided a utility as part of PFE to convert FS2004 or FSX flight plans
for use with ProFlight 2000. When you first select this feature you will
have to select the source (FS files) and target (PF files) folders for this
process. Obviously the source folder will be the folder into which Flight
Simulator saves its flight plans - normally C:\Documents and Settings\
Your Name\My Docucuments\Flight Simulator (or Flight Simulator FSX).
The target folder would be the folder that ProFlight defaults to when
you select a flight plan - normally PFE\FS2000\Pilots folder.
A very important point to remember here is your flight will only be
as good as your flight plan. Just as it is in real life good planning is
essentional!
A good flight plan = a great flight
A bad flight plan = ??????????
Once you have configured ProFlight 2000 to your own particular
requirements simply load your flight plan then hit the compile button.
Your flight plan data will now be generated for use by PFE, which
should only take a short time to complete and which you will notice is
very, very much quicker than it used to be (maximum 30 seconds). This
increase in compilation time is achieved by our own version of APLC32
which doesn‘t actually produce a compiled adventure but simply ex-
tracts the data required by PFE.
The original ProFlight 2000 ADVenture files were approximately 18 MB
in size whereas the PFE ADV Flight Files are less than 15 kb.
Once complete you may now close ProFlight 2000 and start PFE.
Then, from the PFE main menu use the Select New ADV button and
browse to the newly created ADV Flight Files. Choose the one you
require then click Load.