Flight Planner for Mac...

[girl with a stick]

...I see there is no Command Flight Planner for Mac.

Does anyone have any suggestions/recommendations (other than "buy a P.C, you Mactard")?

Cheers,

GWaS

[Peter Fanelli]

WACs
Protractor
Ruler
E6B

[blueloo]

Helpful fellow aren't you.

(As a temporary "instead of buying a PC you mactard" solution you could use bootcamp or an emulation program [VMware fusion] with Windows and then run the program) Its not ideal but it will do the trick. (Also you can make the program appear as a normal mac program on the menu bar via a "Unity" setting within VMware)


(And lastly there are ways and means of using programs I believe such as "Crossover" to make windows programs work on a mac without buying or running windows..... i don't know how easy it is or if it is worth the effort)

[The Green Goblin]

Most companies I worked for used Champagne (flight planner 3000). IMO it beats Command hands down, and you can download a trial version on their website to see if it will run on a mac.

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I could never justify the cost of purchasing such software, and after my CPL flight test never had to do a manual flight plan again.

Perhaps a suggestion is to manually flight plan for your big trip for a bit of practice and use the NAIPS app for iphone/ipad to submit your plans.

[Ultralights]

use software called Parallels, then install XP on your mac. or partition the HD with Bootcamp and install windoze on the new partition.

[QSK?]

Mac Flight Planner

I used to use this shareware program a few years back and never experienced any computer problems: Download Mac Flight Planner for Macintosh. It has a world wide database included but the problem I seem to recall was one of maintaining the currency of the database. Seemed to me at the time to put a lot of onus on the pilot to ensure currency but they may have fixed this up.

girl with a stick: check your PMs

[aldee]

Don't use it for flight planning but use parallels with windows 7 on my imac for business software, works perfectly. Best of both worlds

[Ultralights]

Parallels is pretty slick but it costs a few $$. I'm a true pilot

so am i, "cough" serial box+Iserial reader" cough

[Peter Fanelli]

Perhaps a suggestion is to manually flight plan for your big trip for a bit of practice

I kind of made the same suggestion, but someone said I wasn't being helpful.

[blueloo]

You weren't.

[Ex FSO GRIFFO]

Its OK Pete, I'M WITH U!!!

Ifnya goin' ta do a FUN TRIP - then ya might as well make it a 'FUN TRIP'!!!

Hi Girlie, have to say it here....just have to agree with that man!!

C H E E R S .....

[girl with a stick]

Gentlemen,

Before we start a squabble, I just want to say that it's my intention to use BOTH. The flight planning program is for the initial planning, so I don't have to hire warehouse space to spread out the WACS.

Then, as a pre-CPL, all the planning will be done on maps, with pencils, rulers, protractors and whizz-wheels.

I've been taught to "use whatever's available" - google earth, Command Flight Planner, Co-pilot on the iphone, in addition to the paper, watch and compass, but not instead of


GWaS

[Jabawocky]

Well you could have been available at Darling harbour last Thursday and used mine

Most newer macs will run XP as well.......

Give me a call when you get a minute!