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This is part one in a series of military training route flight plans that will cover the entire US and its territories.


FSX Flight Plans for current low altitude military training route in the Southeastern United States. This package includes 196 individual flight plans for IFR, VFR and Slow Speed Routes. These are great routes for B-52, F-111, B-1B, B-2 A6, A4, Vulcan and any fighter or bomber enthusiasts. Of course you can fly the route with any aircraft of your choice. Also included in this package are two spectacular gauges by Karol Chlebowski for TFR flying and Pave Tack which includes many advanced features for bombing, navigation and reconnaissance. These two gauges will greatly enhance your ability to fly these challenging routes and are a great companion of the flight plans. Another option to download Version 2.1 of my mini panel which has all this functionality and more.




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I highly encourage you to download the following two PDF files:

http://eaip.austrocontrol.at/all/kd/110505/planningdocs/ap1b_5may11.pdf

and

http://eaip.austrocontrol.at/all/kd/110505/planningdocs/MTR/

Select: Eastern Chart South from the list.


The AP/1B Military Training Route document contains all the routing and altitude information plus many more interesting attributes of each route. This was my source document for building these routes.

The chart is very detailed with all routes contained in this package plotted. You may find it a bit hard to interpret but it will give you an appreciation of all the complexities of military low altitude VFR and IFR flying. The routes are color coded which should help some. IFR High Speed Routes (IR-xxx) are red, VFR High Speed Routes (VR-xxx) are blue, and VFR Slow Speed Routes (SR-xxx) are black. After you determine the area on the chart of theroute you are looking for zoom in and you should be able to find your route.

I have also included screenshots of maps for each state in this region located in the Maps folder. My artwork on the location of state borders is not too good but I think you will get the drift.




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1. Place all the .PLN files (not the folder) from the Flightplan Folder in "\Documents and Settings\Your User Name\Documents\Flight Simulator X Files" folder.

2. Flight Plan Installation complete.






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1. Start FSX and on the Free Flight page select Flight Planner. Click the LOAD button on the Flight Planner page and select the desired route.

2 Selected the desired Aircraft, Weather and Time of day on the Free Flight Page.

3. After takeoff Turn the autopilot on and select "NAV" and "ALT". Select GPS on your NAV/GPS switch. The autopilot will take you to the first waypoint (usually PT_A). After reaching the first waypoint decend to the altitude of your choice or use the TFR Gauge provided to fly Terrain Following (See TFR installation instructions below). Use the AP/1B Military Training Route document for altitude guidance.


4. With the use of autopilot and GPS you will be able to fly the entire route pretty much hands free. You may have to manually change altitude in mountainous areas.






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1. Place the .CAB files in" \Microsoft Flight Simulator X\Gauges" folder


2. Next edit the panel.cfg file/s of the aircraft you intend to use with Notepad.. You will find the panel.cfg file in the panel folder of each aircraft. Excellent documentation for the use of Pave Tack is included in this zip.

The installation is a copy and paste approach.

(A) Insert a new window entries into the Windows Title section of the panel.cfg.

[Window Titles]
Windowxx=Pave Tack

NOTE: the xx will be changed to the next available number at the end of the list in Windows Title. You will use this xx number later.



(B) Cut and paste then insert the following to two lines at the end of the main aircraft panel window to add the panel icons. Normally found in [Window00].

gaugeyy=Pave Tack!Recon_icon, 1,10,20,16
gaugezz=TFR!TFRcp, 1,25,35,18

NOTE: the yy and zz will be changed to the next available numbers.

NOTE: I have placed these icons on the top left corner of the main panel window. The size and position can be changed to suit your needs, but the ident MUST be 1515, this allows you to click the screen to toggle the pop-up. I will not go into how to make this change of position and size because there are several programs and info on how to do this on the web. Search is your friend.

(C) Next cut and paste the following to the windows section as the last entry:

//--------------------------- Pave Tack Window -----------------------------------
[WindowXX]
Background_color=0,0,0
size_mm=330,440
window_size_ratio=1
position=0
visible=0
ident=1515
zorder=66
sizeable=1

gauge00=Pave Tack!F-111_PaveTack, 1,120,225,300

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Note: Replace the XX in [WindowXX] above with the xx used above in the Windows Title.


(D) Optional Installation Complete


(Suggestion) Another method to have access to TFR and Pave Tack is to download and install one of my minipanels. I have developed minipanels with both analog and glass cockpit gauges. I recently updated both minipanels to version 2.1. If you decide to take this approach, decide if you want analog or glass cockpit style panels and download one or both of them from AVSIM or SurClaro. Search either site for "FSX_GlassMiniPanel_V2.1.zip" or "FSX Analog MiniPanel_V2.1.zip".




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• Thanks to Karol Chlebowski for the use of the very impressive Pave Tack and TFR gauges.




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The software contained in this archive is supplied as "freeware", and as such no fee or charge may be made for its use.

The author grants permission for the free distribution in its PRESENT FORM ONLY, however the aforementioned archive and its contents, as well as all other freeware files included in this package remain the exclusive copyright of their respective authors, and again, no charge may be for any part of this archive.

DISCLAIMER

There is no warranty or guarantee of any kind, expressed or implied, for any problems whatsoever resulting from the use of this software (though it’s very unlikely). The user assumes all risk related to the use of these files.

Bill McClellan
Email: kv0i@cox.net