SimBrief and Navigraph integration ... clunky?

SimBrief General
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I must admit, I still don’t understand why SimBrief and Navigraph/Charts are two separate apps?

This approach just seems not very efficient with redundant data entry:

  1. Do my route planning in Navigraph Charts on my iPad
  2. Build a route in Navigraph Charts on my iPad
  3. On my Flight Sim PC, open Navigraph website and load the flight plan I created on my iPad
  4. On my Flight Sim PC, use Navigraph Export feature and “copy to clipboard”
  5. On my Flight Sim PC, start SimBrief
  6. Create a new flight in SimBrief
  7. Paste from the clipboard to the “Route” section in SimBrief
  8. Then once again enter the departure and destination ICAO in the upper Flight Info in SimBrief (duplicated from the Navigraph charts)
  9. After I enter the Departure and Arrival ICAO in SimBrief and return to the route section the text I pasted in from Navigraph is gone and SimBrief has auto generated a route which IS NOT the same as the route I created in Navigraph Charts apps?

I have to adjust the Navigraph flight on my iPad to match SimBrief OR I adjust the SimBrief manually to match Navigraph iPad.

There must be a better way?

I use my iPad Navigraph app for flight tracking which is why I need it to match. Am I missing something really obvious? Why are these two apps not just ONE app?

Am I missing something obvious?

Rob.

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Hi Rob,

Navigraph Charts and Simbrief were developed separately and at different times.

As per Navigraph & Simbrief as flight planners - #2 by Ian ,
SimBrief is the more comprehensive flight planner. Charts is the more comprehensive charts and moving map display with a flight planning capability.

We shall consider combining the products, but for now they fill slightly different functions.

Cheers
Ian

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Hi Rob,

To the specifics of your procedure, you might like to try:

  1. Run Charts on iPad or PC to create your plan. Copy the flight string to your clipboard.
  2. Run SimBrief on you iPad or PC. Create a plan with origin and destination. In the Selected Route section highlight the suggested route and paste from clipboard overwriting the suggested route.
  3. Generate the flight plan.
  4. Depending on aircraft type, and simulator, import the SimBrief flight plan via EFB, FMC, MCDU or World Map

Cheers
Ian

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Hi Ian,

Thanks for the suggestion. What I think I’ll do is use SimBrief for the planning and route generation and then save and import the flight plan into iPad Navigraph for flight tracking.

However, it would be nice if you folks took into consideration having a unified application rather than two different yet similar applications.

Enjoy everything you folks offers and I hope I came across as a positive not negative feedback.

Cheers, Rob.

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Hi Rob,

No problems, thank you for the suggestion, which we shall consider.

Cheers
Ian