Neptune Passge Planner

[Emjaytoo]

Have been playing around with the free download demonstrator and it seems a really usefull bit of software.

Anyone use it and what do you think of it?

Before I rush out and buy!

 

[PeteMylett]

I've been using it for a year or so. I started using it to check my manual calculations, but have to confess that of late laziness has set in and the manual calcs have not been done very often.

I guess that say something about the product.

 

[robavery]

I havethe Passage Planner and Routing Software programme with N France chart included. Used for one season and found an excellent tool. We now no longer need as off to Med. If you could be interested send me a PM

 

[shmoo]

I've looked at it and agonised too. There are a few minus as far as I can see. Happy to be proved wrong though.

Clunky user interface: puting routes in by mouse is pretty non-intuitive.

Its expensive - we sail from East Coast to Southern Brittiany via Cornwall and that looks like 6 chart packs to me

Can't transfer the curvy COG plots (if you see what I mean) as a list of waypoints to charting software easyly (or even at all). Could not even get to see them on version I used (may have changed)

 

[johna]

Kim
IMHO the best of the planners as it requires you to work in conjunction with paper charts for initial route planning but then allows rapid recalculation of legs and routes. The back up from Les and Sandra is excellent. I have used it since 1996 and have not updated as I am still on Windows 98 also not too interested in the polar diagram aspects.

 

[Malcb]

I've found it very useful, especially for looking at different times to do a trip, as it can do the calculations a bit quicker than I can. However, from experience with computer programs, I always tend to check manually that the calculation is reasonable.

 

[wizard]

As the others have said it is a basic program but very useful for quick recalculations. Especially, as I have found returning from France to the UK and the wind changes it is brilliant for the recalculation for the fastest course to a different destination than the one intended. (Thereby getting SWMBO back to Blighty before the complaining starts!) /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif