User's Guide for fplan

John C. Peterson, `<jcp@eskimo.com>`

Release 1.4.2, 01 May 1999

This is the user's guide for fplan, a freely distributable application designed to assist general aviation pilots in creating flight plans for cross country flights in powered aircraft. This document contains information on the installation of the software, the creation of planfiles that describe the proposed flight, and the interpretation of fplan output.

1. Introduction

1.1 About fplan
1.2 Copyright
1.3 Change History

2. Installation

2.1 Where to Get the Distribution
2.2 The Binary Distribution for Linux
2.3 The Binary Distribution for OS/2 and MS-DOS
2.4 Building fplan from Source Code

3. Preparing Flight Plans with fplan

3.1 Overview of Creating a Flight Plan
3.2 The Airport and Navaid Databases
3.3 Description of planfile Syntax
3.4 Execution of fplan
3.5 Computed Courses and Headings
3.6 Description of fplan Output
3.7 Hints for Printing fplan Output
3.8 Inherent Limitations of fplan

4. Additional Information