AI Flight Planner is a fully-integrated, TTools format-compatible AI flight planning tool for Microsoft Flight Simulator, both FS9 and FSX versions. Introduced in May 2008 and continually upgraded since then, AI Flight Planner has become the tool of choice for preparing and editing AI flight plans as evidenced by the nearly 8000 downloads of the latest general release in the first three months following its introduction. As of January 2010, AI Flight Planner has been downloaded over 12,000 times.

Version 2 adds a full range of flight plan and repaint installion capabilities as well as several other new functions. These new capabilities were developed in cooperation with AIG (Alpha-India Group). While intended to meet AIG's specific requirements, AIFP version 2 remains a general purpose tool that may be used to install anyone's flight plans and repaint packages.

The full range of functions in the earlier Version 1.6 have been retained. They include:

• stock and add-on airport data collection
• TTools-format text files or compiled traffic files as source
• conversion of FS9 flight plans and traffic files for use with FSX
• creation and editing of flight plans in either the custom flight plan leg editor or a plain text editor
• subsetting of flight plans by airport (both inclusive and exclusive)
• validation of all aspects of flight plans
• compilation of flight plan data into flight simulator traffic files.

Among AIFPs unique features are:

• arrival and departure times may be specified using local times
• use of either IATA or ICAO airport designators
• ICAO and IATA codes, UTC-offset and positional data for any airport is only a few mouse clicks away
• aircraft may be assigned directly from FS9 or FSX aircraft folders
• flight plans are created and edited on a per leg basis; using a day-of-week field, similar legs in weekly flight plans need be entered only once.
• the ability to extract from airline system-wide flight-plan data only those flight plans that visit any of a user-selected list of airports and to prepare subsets of flight plans based on aircraft used or destination airports
• an aircraft editor to manage all aircraft AI-related parameters and which will display a thumbnail of the selected aircraft if available
• a "smart" tree-view display which differentiates between files/folders of interest and those that are not
• the ability to edit weekly flight plans for multiple days irrespective of whether or not in the consolidate mode.

AI Flight Planner does it all!

The current general release of AI Flight Planner is Version 2.1.00. It was uploaded to Avsim.com, Flightsim.com and Simviation.com on October 31, 2010. Updates to that release are made as necesssary to correct reported "bugs" and to introduce improvements. These updates are automatically detected and downloaded by the earlier versions. The latest release is also available here.

We welcome your questions, comments and suggestions regarding AI Flight Planner and this website. Please feel free to contact us at aifp@shaw.ca. AI Flight Planner's support forum is located in the "Tools support" area at http://fsdeveloper.com.