To answer your last question, I think the best way is to go to
http://gc.kls2.com/ and let it calculate for you.
Then the first question on how to make flightplans. I will explain the way I did it, with plans I made for learning flightplanning.
First open a clean notepad and start making legs for the planes, like this:
MP;8111;AMS;EBB;12:15;20:55;1;M1F
MP;8111;EBB;NBO;22:25;23:30;1;M1F
MP;8111;NBO;AMS;00:00;09:00;2;M1F
This is an MD-11 starting at 12:15 at AMS to EBB en then onto NBO before returning to AMS. I already explained the different times.
This way you keep it simple and you dont get confused. Remember to return all flights to the starting airport, this way you dont get any problems
compiling the plans.
So for a F-16 in the Netherlands it could look like:
AA;1;EHVK;EHLW;12:15;14:55;1;F16
AA;1;EHLW;EHEH;16:25;18:30;1;F16
AA;1;EHEH;EHVK;00:00;02:00;2;F16
This way it start on monday at 12:15 flying from Volkel to Leeuwarden,
then flying on the same day at 16:25 from Leeuwarden to Eindhoven, and
the last leg starts on Thuesday at 00:00 from eindhoven to Volkel.
When you're done making the flightplans, MRAIcompiler comes in
http://www.fs2000.org/last/news.asp?id=9808
Open the program and click on "open timetable", and choose the
flightplans you just made. It will then show all flights. Then you can
click on "Compile flightplans", save the file.
The saved file will from the plans above will look like this:
EHVK,N51* 39.43',E5* 42.46',69
EHLW,N53* 13.51',E5* 45.15',3
EHEH,N51* 27.00',E5* 22.46',72
*AC#,AAF16,1%,WEEK,IFR,1/10:15,@1/12:55,100,F,0001,EHLW,1/14:25,@1/16:30,100,F,0001,EHEH,1/22:00,@2/00:00,100,F,0001,EHVK
As you can see, it makes its own airport "database" of the airports,
which are in the flightplans. You only need to chance the *AC#, into
AC#1, This will return in the aircaft.txt.
This file you need to split into two files,
airports.txt: this contains the compiled airports
flightplans.txt: this contains the compiled flightplans
Then you need a third textfile wich contains the aircraft which uses the
flightplans. I hope you know how to add a repaint, else you just need
to ask and I will explain that too.
The aircraft.txt will look like the following:
AC#1,430,"F-16"
As you can see the AC#1 returns here, the 430 stands for airspeed and
the F-16 is the title which return in the aircraft.cfg in the aircraft folder.
So you will end up with 3 files:
airports.txt
flightplans.txt
aircraft.txt
Rename those into something like:
airports_own_F16_flightplans.txt
flightplans_own_F16_flightplans.txt
aircraft_own_F16_flightplans.txt
Then you can compile the whole flightplan into 1 BGL file with TTools
found at:
http://www.simviation.com/fs2004utilities1.htm
I hope this makes all sense, and I hope you wont be scared off, reading all this.
This is the best way of making flightplans, and you dont get confused easy.
Well have fun in making flightplans
Gr. Max