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FS2004 Flightplan utility [Solved]

BaiterOne

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A few weeks ago my external backup disk gave up the ghost. No sweat! I began looking for another. This weekend, before I could acquire a new backup disk, my 'Extras' disk failed miserably and won't allow me to recover the files from it. All my documents gone, my photos, my music and worst of all, my flight sim utilities! Also included were the folders holding my shortcuts. So not only do I not have any flight sim utilities, I don't even know what utilities I had. And I had quite a few :(

Enough tears have fallen at this stage. I have begun to piece together what I used to run on a regular basis. Unfortunately I never paid too much attention to the actual name of the utility I was running, just hit the shortcut!

One notable utility which I ran all of the time on my flightplans was one that examined the flightplans.txt file and produced an airports.txt file with standard entries, long, lat and height. Darned if I can find it using Google.

Can anyone recognise the utility from that poor description?

Thanks

Walter
 
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http://www.flightutilities.com/FP.aspx

Not sure, in fact no idea if this anywhere near what you are thinking about but it might have some of the components you are looking for. The problem we all have is that older freeware is often upgraded by the original creator. Its then lost in space.
 
Thanks, gfxpilot.

I don't think it is the software in question, it looks way too involved! However, I will download it and try it out when I set up my new 'Extras' disk - it arrived today, and I acquired a new backup external disk as well. At the moment I don't actually have any awful lot to put on either of them! :)

Thanks

Walter
 
Hi there this might help as an alternative

www.simbrief.com/home

it is an online plan tool, all you do is register and youre good to go
Here it is possible, to plan a flight and convert it into different extensions which you can put in flightplan directories for diverent programs
from there it is possible to load them direct into youre gps or fmc or what ever you tend to use in the format you want it to be.
for me it works just fine

hope it ease youre sorrow

greetings

Bas
 
BaiterOne said:
Thanks, gfxpilot.

I don't think it is the software in question, it looks way too involved! However, I will download it and try it out when I set up my new 'Extras' disk - it arrived today, and I acquired a new backup external disk as well. At the moment I don't actually have any awful lot to put on either of them! :)

Thanks

Walter
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I didnt think it was the software to be quite honest Walter. Sadly so much of the original tools we all managed to stash away seems to have evaporated overtime - I guess this is microsoft's way of telling us we need to move lol.

Gareth
 
It is odd to me that two drives failed in so short a time. I assume you tried them with another computer?
 
Hi Bobbyjack,

it caught me napping too. The first was an old-ish 500Gb Seagate Barracuda HDD which I was using externally with a USB cable. Because of its age and the way it was carried from room to room and attached at odd intervals, I forgave it! The second was my only HDD in the computer - a 2TB Seagate Barracuda, about three years old - its death came as a major shock!

Yep, I tried them on my son's gaming computer - with the same result.

I brought the 2TB HDD to a PC Repair Shop who said it was dead and he couldn't do anything with it.

I have contacted a Data Recovery company who will charge me €50 to tell me if the disk is really, really dead or if they can recover some or all of the data, for a so-far undisclosed sum of money! I am still considering if the data on the disk is worth a couple of hundred Euro.

In the meantime I have bought a new HDD and a real backup disk.

I also found the name of the utility I was looking for, while trawling the internet - Genair by Denny Payne & Graham Mainwaring.

Thanks

Walter
 
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