The VATSIM Pilot Resource Center

Everything you need to know to get started flying online using VATSIM. Free registration required and your email address must be current with VATSIM (the email you registered with for your VATSIM ID).

This is the most informative tool you will ever find for online flying on the VATSIM network!

Fltplan.com is an excellent resource actually used for real world flight planning, however is available for us simmers as well. You have to register (don't worry it's free) but it's well worth it! This is the best site to find USA Government Preferred routing

MyAirplane.com is a great place to find those SID/STARs & and approach plates. They have them all for the USA and seem to be very up-to-date.

FS Build is a great flight planning utility. Enter your Departure and Arrival destinations, select a few options and let it do the flight planning for you!

U.S. Routes

International Routes

Continental Route Maps. Visual depiction of all COA routes

Continental Airlines Time Table

Look up flights, build connections, create itineraries and print timetables by downloading Continental Airlines Electronic Timetable to your PC (Windows) or by downloading the PDF version.

Download Continental Electronic Timetable for Windows

Download Continental Timetable in PDF format here...

FSUIPC is an essential "Module" that bridges 3rd-party software with FS. This is freeware, however a $20 dollar registration fee is charged if you want the full-version. Believe me, it's worth every penny!

Activesky wxRE means Weather Realism Engine. This new release based on ActiveSky 2002 is the next-generation weather environment engine for FS2002 & 2004! New features include smooth visual cloud transitions, Offline use, Dynamic Processing via TAFs, Wake Turbulence and much, much more!

Your CEO here at VCA uses this program exclusively for his weather enjoyment ;-)

FS Meteo is another automatic weather generation program for FS similar to ActiveSky. Either program will do the job, but Activesky comes with much better product support if you find that important.

FS Screen is a great little utility that will take and automatically save an unlimitied number of screenshots for you while you fly. Just unzip it to your hard drive, then open it up while flying, press "Print Screen" as many times as you want and then after your flight open up the images using your favorite image editing program.