User manual

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Introduction
General
The PFPX program is for use with flight simulation software only.
It shall not be used in any connection with real-world flying.
PFPX - Professional Flight Planner X - is a valuable and realistic addition
to your flight simulation experiences. Given the inputs you provide for a
flight, the pro-gram enables flight simulator pilots to create professional
quality flight plans similar to those used by real-world airlines.
It is designed to supply all of the information that the dispatcher and the
pilot in command require to enable successful flight dispatch release.
While we don’t expect you to become an expert planner immediately,
we hope that you can quickly understand the basics of what is involved.
This User Guide is aimed at getting you up and flying with PFPX as soon
as possible.
We hope that you will obtain many hours of enjoyable learning in grad-
ually producing more efficient and safe flight plans. We recommend
you to take some time to understand the capabilities of PFPX, in par-
ticular reading the chapters II, III and IV so that you gain an initial under-
standing of all functionions available. This will be a valuable investment
of your time as you dig deeper into the tasks of creating effective flight
plans.
If you develop a thirst for advancing your knowledge of the flight plan-
ning processes, PFPX can initially be used to produce relatively simple
flight plans for your flights. As your expertise in flight planning im-
proves, you may wish to challenge yourself to produce more complex
flight plans like choosing varying departures and destinations, planning
long range ETOPS flights via Oceanic Tracks and trying to apply the real
world rules and procedures more and more strictly.