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Old 22nd May 2006 | 10:48
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IO540
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From: EuroGA.org
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Serious questions:

1) Would you mind describing how Flitestar VFR is better than Navbox Pro?

2) Would you mind describing how Flitestar IFR is better than Navbox Pro?

The first one I find hard to see. Obviously FS has far more features but I am talking in the VFR flight planning context.

The 2nd one is clear enough for airways use; you can enter the airway route spec into Flitestar IFR (using the "plain text" entry option) and it draws the whole track, and then prints out the plog containing all the individual waypoints. (One then has the job of manually entering all 40 of them into the IFR GPS, but that's another story). But for UK-style Class G/D IFR, I fail to see the advantage over Navbox.

I have played around with Flitestar IFR a fair bit (the Flitemap version actually) and really tried to get the benefit of the extra features but except for generating a plog for European airways routes I still go back to Navbox every time. It's just so much easier to use and the plog is simple and concise.

The other thing is copy protection. Jepp stuff is tight. Navbox you can put on as many machines as you have kicking around; I have it at my office, at home, on two or three other devices I use.
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