A couple of nice freeware 2024 flight planning tools

[cowpatz]

I have yet to try them out fully myself but here is a couple of flight planning tools that may be of interest, Amazing that they are free.

Dynamic Global Flight Dispatcher (browser based) and Preflighty (a downloadable app).

More info here:

Global flight dispatcher

Preflighty

Watch on youtube.com

[Adamski]

The web-based Global Flight Dispatcher is an amazing bit of coding. Well worth a try!

Not sure about Preflightly. I've not run it because: "If you’re currently using MSFSAddonsLinker (or any other linker-based manager), please move all your addons back into Community/ before running the Preflightly setup. Preflightly needs a clean Community/ folder to import your existing library properly, otherwise you’ll end up with broken links or duplicates."

I have a gazillion addons, but only ever have a small subset running at a time (via Linker). Also - I have a dozen or so payware addons that install directly into Community - not too keen on messing with those.

[cowpatz]

Yes, for Preflighty that is the issue with using something like Addon Linker (which I do).

[cowpatz]

I've been playing around with the Global flight despatcher and I have to say it works very well indeed. It even selects the pax and freight load and then it can be sent to Simbrief.
The most recent experience was to choose a flight out of Manchester EGCC in the ATR with a range to destination of up to 60 min. It came up with Cardiff EGFF as a destination, being 1hr 1 min block to block. That can then be exported to Simbrief, ready for importing into the ATR MCDU. The whole flight plan can be generated and imported into an FMS in less time than it takes to figure out where to start from!
It has lots of other features too, such as lookup tables for IATA airline codes and which airfields to use such as payware, handcrafted etc. You can also add other airfields to a database that you might want to have a preference in selections either to or from. It's incredibly quick and user friendly and a great way to see new places.
Give it ago......amazing that its free.