The major drawback I saw and still see with the AOPA Flight Planner is the
small number of individual aircraft and flight it will allow you to store
because it's stored on the web. With Golden Eagle that's all stored locally
on your hard drive.
--
Chris Ehlbeck, PPASEL
"It's a license to learn."

"Martin Kosina" wrote in message
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Larry Dighera wrote in message
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The clunky old Cirrus Software for use with DUATS is being replaced
with a new program that looks like a terrific improvement. I haven't
had a chance to try it yet, but it's got to be better than Cirrus.

I would not call Cirrus clunky - devoid of features, perhaps, but
quite reliable. I may have just had bad luck with Golden Eagle, but it
is very slow and crashed on me several times. But it looks like a good
step forward, I am sure it will improve. The AOPA Real-Time planner is
another new option and offers nice Jeppesen-like enroute charts.

I haven't looked at the latest versions of the different GUI flight
planners lately, but its still hard to beat the text-based flight
planner in DUATS, with its ability to specify mixed user/auto routing
(*a, *g, etc.). Its also the only tool widely available on the road.
The web-based Flightprep might eventually address this, but its
presently unusable for performance reasons, IMHO.