Planning a route

Building the route

Add waypoints by tapping or clicking the map, by searching, or (web) by typing the whole route as text (for example ESOS ESGG ESSA). Other ways:

From a card: add an aerodrome, navaid, waypoint or place to the route.
Find a destination (see Aerodromes and briefing).
Import a GPX file.

Snapping

A tap within 20 px of a feature snaps to it. If several features are close, a picker lists them, aerodromes first and the exact tapped position last. While you drag a point, the preview follows the feature it would snap to, with the nearest aerodrome preferred.

Editing

Drag a waypoint to move it, or drag a leg’s midpoint to insert a new waypoint.
Dropping a waypoint onto the point before or after it removes it instead of leaving a zero-length leg.
Reorder waypoints by dragging them in the route table.
Undo and redo any route change.
Reverse the route from the menu.
In flight, editing is locked unless you tap a leg first. See Saved routes and places.

Direction chevrons run along each leg. Leg labels show heading and speed when you are not editing. Intermediate waypoint names appear from zoom 8.

The route table

Each row is a waypoint, with these columns for the leg that follows:

Column	Meaning
MT	Magnetic track
MH	Magnetic heading to fly (track corrected for wind), with the wind correction angle in the tooltip. Shown when there is wind
TT	True track
NM / km	Leg distance (set in Settings)
Lvl	Planned altitude in feet
ETE	Estimated time en route
ETA	Estimated arrival (UTC), when a takeoff time is set

The ALT row below the table is the alternate aerodrome (see below).

Leg properties

Open a leg to override its own altitude, IAS, wind direction and wind speed, and to add a note. The panel also shows the leg’s distance, magnetic and true track, TAS, ground speed, ETE and its MSA. If the level is below the MSA a warning shows with a button to set the level to the MSA. Reset drops a manual wind and goes back to global or forecast wind.

Takeoff time, wind and alternate

Departure: set a planned takeoff date and time (UTC). Wind forecasts and ETAs use it. If you leave it blank, “now” is used.
Wind (WND): leave blank to use the forecast per leg, or enter one direction and speed for all legs. A per-leg wind still wins. A refresh button re-fetches the forecast.
Alternate (ALT row): type an alternate aerodrome’s ICAO code. The row shows its distance from the destination. Remove it with the ✕.

Wind for each leg comes from, in priority order:

A wind you typed for that leg.
A wind you typed for the whole route.
The forecast wind at the middle of the leg, at the leg’s altitude and expected time. The forecast covers about the next 16 days. Outside that, or offline, still air is assumed.

Time, fuel, ETAs and the pre-flight check all use the same wind values, so they agree with each other.

Cruise level

A new leg gets a level automatically if the default would be below the terrain under it plus 1,000 ft, or the highest obstacle in a 1 NM corridor plus 500 ft, rounded up to 100 ft. You are told when it happens. Legs you set yourself, or whose endpoints you only moved, are not changed (the pre-flight check still flags them).

Pre-flight checks

On the web app the check lists, in a warning panel (native marks legs below their MSA in red and warns when fuel is short, but has no airspace check in the plan):

Airspace: the planned level enters a controlled or restricted airspace (class C, D, restricted and TRA).
Below MSA: a leg is below its minimum safe altitude (not counted near the departure and destination).
Fuel: the minimum fuel exceeds the aircraft’s capacity.

Warnings are advice. They do not replace your own planning.

Aircraft and fuel

Pick an aircraft to get time, climb and descent, a fuel plan and a vertical profile that match the aircraft. See Aircraft and fuel and Virtual Radar and vertical profile.

Weather for the route

The plan can show weather and winds aloft along the route. See Weather and NOTAMs.

See Saved routes and places for saving, loading, GPX (web also KML).