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    Description

    Grand Tour Flight Planner (GTFP) helps the casual user in the following ways:

    1. GTFP simplifies the construction of complicated flight plans from scratch.

    2. GTFP can generate over 500 interesting (built-in) flight plans.

    3. GTFP can create waypoints from a search, such as  your house address, latitude/longitude,  POI (like "Eiffel Tower", "Grand Canyon"), or IOAC code.

    4. GTFP provides an easy way to navigate during VFR flight: It tracks the plane’s heading and the target’s bearing and distance together in a small window that can be overlaid on the main MSFS window. It allows you to slew to the next point in the route.

    5. GTFP lets you overlay a small VFR map on top of MSFS where you can zoom in to great detail, or out to show as much of the world as you wish. It tracks your plane in real time. It has options to label political boundaries, show only roads, or show unlabeled geographic features (matching what you see from the cockpit).

    A Users' Guide is available. Here is a quote from the FAQ that shows a way to use some of GTFP features.

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    I want to fly over both my house and the Cleveland Museum of Rock and Roll. What do I do? Put your house address in the add waypoint box (on the Map page) and click enter key. When the waypoint is created, right click on it and then on “add nearest airport” button (or put a specific airport code in the add waypoint box). Set that airport to be both FIRST and LAST via right click on the airport map pin. Put “Cleveland Rock and Roll Museum" in the add waypoint box and click enter key. Now click on optimize mapped path button to make the shortest route. That should generate the flight plan you want.

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    10 months ago

    Sadly, this tool is now close to useless to me without BingMapControl. 5 stars anyway because it was great while it worked, and it's not your fault Microsoft is greedy. Thanks anyway.

    12 months ago

    Not working. Why don't you try fix it?

    about 1 year ago

    Can't get V11.3 to run under Win11;
    a click an "Flightplanner.exe" does nor show any reaction; by the way: the Folder "GrandTourFP" comprises just 40 MB after downloading and uncompressing, while V 10.4 is about 180 MB ???
    Is there anything missing?
    fredm73Author

    over 1 year ago

    Version 11.3 supports both MSFS 2020 and 2024.

    over 1 year ago

    A simulated annealing optimizer? That's the gold right there. For me, being able to plan extensive tours and have them optimized is reason enough for this wonderful piece of work. I planned a US Capital tour on my own (before discovering this program), choosing my own airports, and thought I had optimized it pretty well. However, your app shaved off another 150 nm when I entered it in, having to change the order of only four airports (my tour of 49 US capitals, not including Honolulu, too far for my TBM 930). Impressive! I look forward to optimizing my future tours with this app.

    over 1 year ago

    this thing doesnt work at all v11.2 !!!
    No coordinates under "Result"
    Weard Route Tab
    I am in germany... Where can we download your v2.11, as shown in your youtube video?
    quote from your post below: "MS will no longer allow free use of the BingMapControl in June of 2025"
    LOL, Dude, we still have 2024.. so what? You should adjust your software then, later next year in june! ... and not now with an useless app. thanks!

    P.S. i will give you 5 Stars, if it works as before, in your video!
    fredm73Author

    over 1 year ago

    You can download the previous version at my website: https://sites.google.com/view/fredm/home. If you have specific suggestions on how to improve the new version, please email me (my email address is on my website). The current User's Guide has an appendix explaining the old interface; the reasons for the change are also explained in the User's Guide (link is also on my website).

    almost 2 years ago

    Hello

    Unfortunaty the 11.2 version does not work. Loaded PLN files do not appear on the map any longer.
    fredm73Author

    almost 2 years ago

    MS will no longer allow free use of the BingMapControl in June of 2025. For that reason, I had to change GTFP to just use the Bing map website (in GTFP's built-in browser). It is not possible to draw the route on that. I tried to make up for this as follows: the route is now shown on a 'graphic'. The plane is shown on that graphic when you connect to MSFS. If you click on a waypoint (or on the plane) in the graphic, it positions the Bing map at that latitude and longitude. You can zoom in/out on the map and change the map from roads to satellite, etc. That was the best solution I could find to avoid using the BingMapControl. You can download the old version of GTFP from my website until June of 2025. At that point only the latest version of GTFP will work.

    almost 2 years ago

    Excellent little app :) It would be perfect if one could sort/filter by runway length or surface :)

    about 2 years ago

    Great flight planner!
    Put in a bunch of destinations, optimize them and get a .pln file for where ever you want to fly!
    Really great work! Thanks!

    about 2 years ago

    Would this work ok in VR?

    about 2 years ago

    SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME HOW TO OPEN THE APPLICATION

    about 2 years ago

    Amazing.. simple and easy to use.. Great work. Thank you Sir very much.
    Robert
    New Zealand.

    over 2 years ago

    I wasn't having any luck with the Mach Loop flight plans out there. Couldn't get the waypoints to work properly. Ran one through Flight Planner, set the origin and destination to same, and saved.

    Loaded into my Cessna 172 G1000 and was able to follow all waypoints in GPS NAV mode.

    What a great route!

    Please assume that the reason I was not able to make the original flight plans work was most likely pilot error.

    over 2 years ago

    What a great program for VFR flying. I've just been exploring places I never thought about in the past. Low and slow in the Icon A5. Thanks.

    almost 3 years ago

    Très utile pour découvrir des endroits inconnus, pratique et facile à mettre en place, merci beaucoup à l'auteur

    about 3 years ago

    This is a fantastic app. I started out cherry picking through the list and am now flying every plan presently on G. Visiting places I never would have imagined and seeing things that are truly amazing and this is just a game I keep telling myself. Thank you for putting this together and I look forward to updates with more wow factor flying.

    about 3 years ago

    Hi,

    I am having a problem with the generated waypoints when I open up the PLN file in MSFS. They are showing up as the north pole instead of the waypoint plotted in the GT tool. Any idea why?

    fredm73Author

    about 3 years ago

    Thanks for the bug report. I am unable to duplicate this problem. Could you email me what you did to create the flight plan that caused the problem and include the steps you did in GTFP so that I can try and duplicate it. My email address is in the User's Guide at the end.

    On 2/28 I downloaded your GTFP- FP into MSFS. It seems to work now: the MSFS chart and navaid waypoint (distance and direction) all conform to GTFP's generation.

    Please ensure you have the latest MSFS patches and try again. If the problem persists, let me know and I will look further. PS: I note that there was a similar complaint about LittleNavMap generated FP's, but have heard of no follow-up.


    According to the original poster (3/1), this was a bug elsewhere and is now cleared up.

    MSFS 2020MSFS 2024

    Grand Tour Flight Planner

    Grand Tour Flight Planner is a comprehensive tool designed to simplify the process of creating intricate flight plans in Microsoft Flight Simulator. With the ability to generate over 500 pre-made flight plans and create custom waypoints based on various inputs like addresses, POIs, and coordinates, GTFP enhances the VFR flying experience by providing real-time tracking and navigation aids through its overlay VFR map feature.

    Downloads11K
    Versionversion 11.3
    File Size15.50 MB
    Published5 years ago
    Updated1 year ago

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    CategoryUtilities
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    Version History

    Added support for MSFS 2024

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