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17. A BETA TESTER’S GUIDE TO USING PFE
By Ray Lunning
17.1 Introduction
PFE utilizes ProFlight2000 for use in FS2004 and FSX.
PF2000 is a Flight Planning and ATC program that simulates ATC communications and
navigation. It is an interactive program which allows the Pilot to respond to ATC voice
commands.
17.2 The Pilot
To use this program the Pilot should have some knowledge of navigation and
IFR/VFR Flight procedures. A successful flight will depend on the Pilots
ability.
17.3 Flight Preparation
Prior to flight, the Pilot should have a printed ProFlight2000 Flight Plan. It will
also be useful to have a print of the Flight Plan's *.brf file found in the
PFE\ADV folder. These two items will provide you with most of the runway
information and enroute frequencies needed to make the flight...
To do things by-the-book the pilot should ideally have a printed ILS or VOR
Approach procedure published for the destination airport, although this is not
absolutely necessary.
Approach Plates can be downloaded from several web sties such as:
www.airnav.com/airports/
17.4 Flight Plans
A good flight plan is the most important part of making a good flight.
ProFlight's compilation process to create an ADVenture file is now intercepted
by PFE to create a much more compact ADV Flight File.
Flight Plans can be created using the FS9 or FSX Flight Planner. However they
need to be converted to FS2000 format for use with ProFlight 2000. At the
time of writing they can be converted the ConvertFS9FP.exe tool provided by
OnCourse Software. However, this may find itself as an integral part of PFE
by the time the program is released.
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