The most popular flight plan generator, SimBrief by Navigraph, has recently received a new significant update, improving your flight planning experience, just in time for the thunderstorm season in the northern hemisphere.
Why do we mention thunderstorms? This new update brings a functionality that allows flight plans to avoid SIGMETs on route. This function allows you to enter the SIGMET numbers you want to avoid during your flight. Then, SimBrief automatically generates a new route, avoiding the weather that could affect your flight negatively.
This “avoiding functionality” not only affects the weather, but you can also avoid ETOPS areas. You can use this, for example, for a ferry flight delivering non-ETOPS Boeing 737 aircraft from Everett to somewhere in Europe. This will make such flight planning easier, as you won’t have to worry during your long flights with an aircraft without certified ETOPS. Those who like can also avoid the Russian airspace with this feature, as that is implemented, too.
All of this is accompanied by a new route calculation engine that allows the route calculator to find routes more effectively and should be more reliable, according to the Navigraph post. Moreover, for your long-haul flights over the Pond, you can also let SimBrief insert your Oceanic waypoints, and not just name the preferred NAT track on route.
If you have a Navigraph subscription connected with your SimBrief account, you can now choose specific SIDs and STARs for your flight, which is all based on whether the SIDs and STARs are suitable for the aircraft type and the flight plan. You can also visualise those within the dispatcher on maps.
Those who don’t have a Navigraph subscription with SimBrief are also getting some new features that improve the flight history, and you have more aircraft options available, as well as easier equipment editing. Above all, this should make your dispatching work much easier, especially if you create custom aircraft profiles for planes that you use.
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