Simple Flight Suite How the Suite Fits Together
These started as separate scratches for separate itches, and they could have stayed that way. They did not, because a flight is not separate parts. What you planned decides what you brief. What you brief decides what you fly. What you flew is the only useful thing to debrief against.
So the apps hand work to each other, in the order a flight happens.
Before You Sit Down
Give Simple Dispatch the route and it turns on the scenery and the aircraft that flight actually needs, leaving the rest of your collection dormant in its library. Simple Profile Manager applies the settings profile that suits it — GA panel, airliner, VR — and can launch the simulator in the same click. Or set a launch flow once, and your tools and the sim come up in order, every time. Once you are in the sim, Simple Flight Menus is where you pick the aircraft and set the route, with your own presets a click away. And if you have been tinkering with BIOS or graphics settings, Simple Flight Tune tells you what your machine actually applied and whether the change was worth making.
Planning
Build the route in Simple Flight Planner: Quick mode if you just want to fly, Full mode for procedures, terrain, weight and balance and a dispatch report. Weather, TAFs and NOTAMs come with it. Export it to the sim, and hand the same route to Dispatch. If anything in the plan is unfamiliar — the hold, the phraseology, a plate you have not read before — Brief in Academy opens Simple Flight Academy on exactly that. And if you want company in the sky that live traffic will never show you — a squadron, a flying club, your own airline — build its schedule in Simple Traffic Compiler, from lists and a search of 19,000 airports, and export it.
In the Air
Simple Flight Tracker is the free bridge: it holds the sim connection, puts your live position on the planner map, and carries the flight plan through to the debrief. Dashboard Pro connects to the sim on its own and gives you the fuller version — moving map, briefing, checklists, frequencies and radio phrasing for the call you are about to make. Simple Flight Remote puts a full instrument panel and a moving map on your phone or tablet, and gives you a radio that answers: ATIS, position calls at uncontrolled fields, AI traffic on frequency, and a tower that works you all the way to a visual. Simple Flight Traffic opens the schedule you exported from the compiler and puts those aircraft at their gates, then in the air, on sim time — or straight away, with Start now.
Afterwards
Simple Flight Review scores the landing out of 100, prints every one of the eighty-odd figures the flight produced, draws the approach in track miles, and picks up the radio log from Remote so your calls are judged too. Fly the same aircraft a few more times and the trends page starts telling you what twenty flights say that one cannot. It comes out as one HTML file you can keep or send to someone. If you were recording, Simple Flight Overlay has your instruments as transparent video, aligned frame for frame with the footage.
Where the Data Goes
The Part That Is Hard to Copy
Any one of these apps exists elsewhere in some form. What does not exist elsewhere is a debrief that knows the route you planned, the runway you actually landed on, and the radio calls you made from your tablet — and that can tell you whether this landing was your best of eight or your worst. The planner, the bridge, the radio and the debrief were built by one person to talk to each other.
None of those hand-offs would survive being sold separately. Almost nobody would own all four, so the connections would go unused, and I would end up building each app as though the others did not exist. Which is most of the reason nothing here has a price tag.