Charts...

A flight plan is a bunch of waypoints. A quick-start flight plan can be made of one single group of waypoints. A group of waypoints is a chart. A realistic flight plan should be made of three charts at least.

• The SID
• The "en-route" chart
• The STAR

Google that if you are not familiar with those terms. SID and STARS are generally IFR flight stuff but many airports have some VFR approach and departure rules and waypoints. The flight planner allow to edit that kind of realistic procedures.

Let's see first what kind of flight plans you can do. Then we will have a look on how exactly a chart is edited in the flight planner...


Single chart flight plan...
The easiest way to create a flight plan is a direct from an airport to another. Let's say you want to fly from Ajaccio to Bastia in Corsica...

The flight plan will be...



The flight will not be amazing, and the ATC will only ask you to change frequency to the Calvi one or to unicom after take-off.

If you add an intermediate waypoint between the airports...

The flight plan will be...

In this case, Ajaccio tower will give you Ajaccio approach frequency or unicom (actually I didn't try!)

And so on... These flight plans are made of one single chart. Easy-to-do but not very realistic in terms of flight and ATC contacts! For better realism, you should create multiple charts flight plans...

Multiple charts flight plan...
Assuming you want to fly VFR, this is the official chart of LFKJ...

It's an Approach chart but let's consider it's a departure chart, the departure chart will be (assuming we fly to the north direction)...

After making the approach chart of Calvi, our flight plan will be...

This is a multiple charts flight plan. The ATC contacts will be very much more realistic, and your flight pretty much more interesting!

• You will be VFR special (controlled) until NW
• Then the ATC will release you to unicom and you will fly freely in VFR
• Then after requesting landing over S (or later), the ATC will set you back to VFR special