What do you use for making flights?

[DrJimi]

I always fly big iron (PMDG 737, 738 or 744) and always IFR. Flight itself will depend on how much time I want to spend and the area I
feel like flying in -- although I fly out of KMHT a lot (my local airport). Flights are typically minimum of 60 mins or so, maybe 90-120 mins if I
have time. Last night was a 2:30:00 trip KMHT-KMCO (Southwest 737 of course).
I use FSbuild2 to plan all my flights. I'll first check if it has an existing plan, if not let it build one (specifying cruise alt and aircraft). What I
have also been doing more frequently recently is use FlightAware.com to check on real flights to/from KMHT and grabbing the real flight
plans and inputting the information (fixes, jetways, sids, stars) into FSbuild2 and it will build the plan files from that info. That's about as
real as it gets. FSbuild2 creates both my FS9 and PMDG plans (RTE & PLN files) so I can use FS9 ATC. I also have the PMDG aircraft
info loaded into FSbuild2 so it knows the aircraft performance and can thus give me reasonable estimates for flight times, fuel, etc.
FSbuild2 is payware, but IMHO the features Ernie put into it are more than worth the modest cost.