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- README for snfltpl4, an Excel Flight Planner spreadsheet
-
- This is a flight planner most useful for pilots flying under Visual Flight
- Rules (VFR). It allows users to enter waypoints along with distance information
- and wind conditions to calculate heading and groundspeed for each leg
- of the flight. It also calculates fuel consumption and estimated arrival
- times etc. It does great circle calculations and supports the Zulu time
- format as well. There are separate sheets for weight and balance, airport
- information, navigation and communication frequency information and other
- miscellaneous calculations. This version of the spreadsheet is specifically
- geared to US timezones and Cessna 152 and Cessna 172 aircraft.
-
- No installation is required. After unzipping the archive, use any version
- of Excel greater than 5.0a (Windows) to load the spreadsheet. You can use
- it under the Mac as well with similar version release of Excel. In short,
- the application is quite independent of the operating system. A formatted
- document file accompanies the Excel spreadsheet and this will need Word
- for Windows/Mac.
-
- The program is freeware. If you wish to support it a thank-you will
- suffice. Please give credit to me if you plan to publish a modified
- version of the program and inform me so I can learn from your version
- as well.
-
- The program is freely distributable (see above for further comments).
-
- I can be contacted via e-mail:
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- sriram.narayan@technologist.com
-
- and my web page is http://www.dsp.net/narayan. The flight planner is also
- available from the web site (http://www.dsp.net/narayan/snfltpl4.zip)
-
- Thanks, and I look forward to your comments and suggestions.
-
- Sriram Narayan
-