"Sridhar Rajagopal" wrote in message ...

1) how many people actually use any kind of flight planning software
(VFR and IFR)?

In the past I've typically just used the DynCorp DUAT flight planner. I've
recently started playing around with aeroplanner.

The DUAT planner does most of what I want...piciks a route, fills out the log.
Aeroplanner has the nicety that it provides some AF/D-ish information as well.