Say waypoint 1 is 30 nm North of the departure airport.Waypoint 2 is 50 nm East of waypoint 1.
The Navigation Log in Flight Simulator would display (and print) no frequency, heading, distance (along leg), speed or time enroute (for leg) on the line with the departure airport. It would display heading, distance, speed, and ETE for the firat leg on the line with the ID for waypoint 1. Heading, distance, speed and ETE information for the leg between Waypoint 1 and Waypoint 2 would appear on the line with Waypoint 2. Speed is displayed as ground speed. Thus(lines showing TOTAL remaining distance and time Enroute omited):
DEP APT
WPT1 VOR xxx.5x 5,000 360 030 90 0:20
WPT2 VOR xxx.7x 5,000 090 050 90 0:33
DST APT 1,200 180 060 90 0:40
This is also consistant with the BAO Flight Shop planner that predates the Microsoft planner.
But for the same route some plans from other sources would show:
DEP APT xxx.5x x,xxx 360 030 90 0:20
WPT1 VOR xxx.5x x,xxx 090 050 90 0:33
WPT2 VOR xxx.7x x,xxx 180 060 90 0:40
DST APT xxx.xx 1,200 5/23 0 0 0:00
Switching back and forth it gets a bit frustrating figuring out which system is in use. Since everybody has the default planner can we be consistant with it and set up the table generator that way? Pilots with other planners could import their plans into the simulator and type their plans up from that display or its hard copy.
To calculate ETE you have to go through (estimated) groundspeed anyway. You wouldn't even be able to calculate time enroute from IAS or true airspeed without wind information anyway, and the first "E" does stand for "Estimated". With estimated groundspeed you at least know what the ETE was calculated from.
Robert
Near KORF
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