Hot on the heels of the release of the iPhone version of X-Plane, Austin Meyer has released X-Planner. Aimed at “real world” pilots, the application could still be useful to we simulator-only pilots to add an additional touch of realism.
How it works
You enter the performance parameters of your airplane one time (takes maybe 15 minutes?)
Then, after that, you just enter the departure and destination for wherever you are flying, and the winds aloft. X-Planner will then show you your weight and center of gravity with the take-off fuel on board and weight and gravity at zero-fuel as a red line across the weight and balance envelope, so you can see if you will be within weight and balance for the entire flight! Finally, seeing if you are within weight and balance is easy and even kind of fun!
Then, X-Planner will show you the time enroute and fuel burn for each altitude, so you can see how much fuel to put on board and how long the flight will be, and also know what altitude is the most efficient to fly at.
You can purchase X-Planner from the iTune App Store.
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