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I am editing some fight plans created with another flight planner (long before I discovered AI flight planner) and when I load the flightplan, I am getting a lot of errors because the overide ETA box contains a value. When I remove this value and let AIFP calculate the ETA it fixes most of the errors. Is there any way to automate this process as manual editing is rather tedious. I tried the "Find / Replace" but that does not allow wildcards in the "Find" field; the idea being to repace the time values with blanks to let AIFP calculate the arrival time.

I am pretty certain I am stuck with manual editing, but in case anyone know of a utility that would do this, I would appreciate a heads-up.

Thanks for any help!

Nigel
 
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AIFP should only "complain" when it encounters a departure time earlier then the previous ETA or a flight duration that cannot be met with the selected aircraft. I presume your errors are of the latter variety.

If the programmed ETA's are realistic, then perhaps it's the aircraft cruise speeds that are the problem. (Some suppliers of flight plan info change the cruise speed of the aircraft to about 200 kts as a workaround dor the 37-minute problem. AIFP doesn't need this "fix" and, indeed, it will make otherwise realistic ETAs impossible.)

But, to answer your specific question, no, AIFP doesn't have a facility for clearing programmed ETAs. But, the process might be faster if you worked with the text files, did a search for "@" andmanualy clear that field. athat would avaoid having to load every FP into AIFP.

Hope this helps,
Don
 
Thanks Don!

I did adjust the aircraft speeds and still got both type of errors (a departure time earlier then the previous ETA or a flight duration that cannot be met with the selected aircraft). The adjustment to the aircaft speeds fixed many errors but I still had to overide the entry in the ETA field for the others. Strangly, the decompiled text file had no "@" so there were no easy text file edits to be made.

I did try importing a small flightplan file into Excel as a .csv file and clearing the arrival times, I then saved and renamed the extension from .csv to txt and then opened that file in AIFP, but still got errors. So I bit the bullet, loaded a fresh decompile and manually corrected all the errors by deleting the ETA field and that fixed it.

Nigel
 
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the decompiled text file had no "@"
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AIFP doesn't use the "@" symbol, but will accept it in TTools FPs. Since you didn't say earlier you were working from a traffic file, I thought I'd at least make the suggestion. Sorry it didn't help. But, it sounds like you're "back on track" now.

Don
 
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