Printing a Trip Kit

After your flight plan is complete, the Trip Kit assembles and prints enroute charts, weather graphics, and reports for your flight.

Use one of the following methods to print a Trip Kit for the displayed route:

• Click the Trip Kit button, , on the Main toolbar.

• Click Preflight > Trip Kit.

• Press CTRL+T.

Place your cursor on different areas on the image below until you see the white hand, . Once the white hand appears, left-click your mouse to display more information on that topic. The same information is also available below the image.

Vector Charts

Theme — Print the charts on a selected theme by using the drop-down menu. The default choice is the theme currently displayed in the Enroute Chart View. The printed charts might not reflect all of the chart elements that are displayed in the Enroute Chart View due to decluttering issues, but the program does consider the chart preferences.

Departure / Stops / Destination — Prints the departure, destination, and any stops specified in the route at a 1:250,000 scale. If selected, these charts print first in the Trip Kit.

Entire Route — Includes an overview chart showing the entire route in the Trip Kit, including numbered depictions of each enroute page in the Strip Charts printout.

Strip Charts — Prints your entire route in sequential pages, at one of eight scales ranging from 1:250,000 to 1:124,764,454. Specify any scale with any theme. Beside some of the theme scales is an annotation of whether it depicts the scale of a printed chart or if the scale is what is viewed in the Enroute Chart View:

• LAE — IFR Low Altitude Enroute Charts (1:729,134)

• (**) — Prints the strip charts at the scale of the current Enroute Chart View.

Select Include Profile Sections to include the Profile View at the bottom of each printed chart.

Select Include NavLog Sections to print appropriate sections of the Navigation Log at the bottom of each printed chart.

Terminal Procedures

Select the Airport Information check box to print, as part of the Trip Kit, all of the selected airport information types:

• General — Lat/long, magnetic variation, elevation, printed sectional information, fuel types, services, and time zone.

• Runway — Length and width of runways, surface description, directional runway information.

• Communication — Frequencies at various locations.

• Weather — The weather information only prints if you have downloaded a Standard Weather Route Briefing.

Weather

Select the check boxes in the Weather field to indicate whether you want to print downloaded text briefings, weather graphics, or both. Click List to display a dialog box from which you can select the specific weather information types to print.

Reports

Select the check boxes in the Reports field to print any of the following reports:

• Nav Log (choose Expanded or Standard)

• FAA Flight Plan

• ICAO Flight Plan

Page Settings

Use the Page Settings field to select the format for the reports.

Single Page Printing — The default printing option is single page. To select this option, clear the Two per page check box on the Printing dialog. Using single page printing, the chart is scaled to fill the entire page.

Two Per Page Printing — Prints charts so that two charts are printed on the same page, maximizing each chart on its half of the page.

Print on both sides — If your printer supports duplex printing, this option saves paper by using both sides. Selecting this check box saves the steps of going into Print Setup and selecting Duplex Printing.

Print Options

You can view your printer setup, print directly to the printer, and preview what you are about to print.

Print — Prints the Trip Kit with the selected options.

Print Preview — In the Print Preview view, you can see what your Trip Kit looks like when printed. Use the buttons on the toolbar to look over the pages.

Print Setup — Displays the Print Setup dialog box, allowing you to change printers and orientation, and view print driver properties.

Cancel — Closes the Trip Kit dialog box.