Golden Eagle has too many bugs (at least it did as of two months ago). Here
are some of the problems:

-Auto Routing using Low Altitude Airways does a bad job of finding the
shortest route
-Printing a DUAT generated flight plan through their Adobe interface does
not work (i.e. the program creates corrupted PDF files)
-Errors in the Map (missing airways)
-The flight plan does not print a magnetic heading using the winds aloft
data. This makes the flight plan useless for VFR flights without the use of
navaids. This is especially true if you are using user-defined waypoints.


Ali Ghorashi
http://home.pcisys.net/~aghorash

"John Kirksey" wrote in message
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"C. Osbourne" wrote in message
.. .
Anyone know where I could get a downloadable, or freeware
program to assist in filling out a cross country navigation
form? Yes, I know we have to do that manually, but in the
learning process it'd be a great help to have a way to check
our answers for saneness.

If you can point me in the direction of either a downloadable
or web-based program to generate all the data, it'd be a big
help! I've seen duats, but I'm looking for something else.

Thanks for answering here.

I've been using both the AOPA real-time flight planner, and the Golden
Eagle
product (www.flightprep.com) to do that very thing. The Golden Eagle
product
seems to have a few more features. Both are free, Golden Eagle upgradable
in
exchange for $$.

John K.
Student Pilot