A flight planning example (1 of 10).
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The first step when flight planning is enabling the flight planning screen (if not already present) by choosing option View | Flight plan for the the PC version or by pressing the most left button on a Pocket PC. Pushing the 'New' button will bring up the following screen:
The next thing we have to do is enter the ID of our departure airport, in our example EHLE. Notice the rounded edges on the input boxes; these input boxes are called PAIMs (PocketFMS Advanced Input Methods), and once double-clicked a large keyboard appears that's even usable in the roughest of air. The keyboard is adapted to the PAIM that opened it, so a PAIM expecting numeric input will pop a numeric keyboard.
These PAIMs also take care of on-the-fly unit conversions, so °C, °F, miles, kilometers, liters, gallons, it doesn't matter what you enter. Of course you can set a default for the units you prefer to use.
You can also just type the ID. After typing / selecting at least 3 characters, it is possible to use the drop-down function to produce a list of possible starting points. Notice our planned speed has already been set to our aircraft's cruising IAS.
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