User manual

PFPX - Professional Flight Planner X
Aerosoft GmbH 2013
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Load load weather from previously saved
weather file
Save to save weather data to hard disk
ActiveSky Use ActiveSky weather (requires
‘current_wx_snapshot.txt’ and
‘wx_station_list.txt’ files)
REX Use Real Environment Extreme (REX)
weather (requires ‘metar_report.xml’
file)
None clear all weather settings.
Config to reach the program configuration
window to configure weather data.
Organized Track System
Beside the static airways used for flight planning, the Organized Track
System (OTS) records the current oceanic tracks, updated on a daily
basis.
These tracks are normally optimized to avoid headwinds and to take
advantage of tailwinds by circumnavigating bad weather conditions.
They often require special flight
planning procedures and consi-
derations (refer to page 72 –
Flight Planning).
These tracks are:
• North Atlantic Tracks
(NATS) for crossing the Atlantic
between Europe and the US
East Coast/Canada.
• Pacific Tracks (PACOTS)
for crossing the Northern Pacific
Ocean between the US West
Coast and Asia/Japan.