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Shotgun Pinboard: Your Ultimate Flight Simulator Electronic Flight Bag (EFB)

Transform your flight sim experience with Shotgun Pinboard, the customizable Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) designed for flight simulator enthusiasts. Whether you're a newcomer learning the ropes or a seasoned virtual pilot, Shotgun Pinboard elevates your planning and execution to new heights. Plan realistic sorties, calculate crucial data, and optimize your flight strategies all within a dedicated environment.

Key Features for Realistic Flight Simulation

Fuel management is at your fingertips! Easily calculate time, distance, and fuel consumption based on your flight plan, adding a crucial layer of realism to your flight simulator experience. Use it as a flight sim trainer or to enhance your aviation planning.

Customize your flight planning using scanned maps (satellite, topological, or even hand-drawn) and create a custom ruler to match the scale for precise distance, time, and fuel calculations. Populate your map with airfields, notes, objects like AA emplacements, refueling aircraft, and SAM sites to fully prepare your virtual battlespace. Practice entry and exit routines with ease, replacing printed pages of airfield data.

Share flight plans and maps with friends for collaborative scenarios within online servers that feature multiple aircraft and human-manned radios. Gain a bird's-eye view of the battlefield to familiarize yourself with the terrain and mission objectives.

Perfect for Newcomers and Veterans Alike

New players will quickly grasp the fundamental concepts of flight by analyzing the data and visual cues presented by Shotgun Pinboard. Understand climb/descent rates (feet per minute), and explore pre-configured aircraft data sets for popular simulators (A10 Warthog for DCS, F18 Hornet for MSFS, and F16 Falcon for Falcon Gold/BMS).

Veterans will appreciate the extensive customization options. Create new aircraft profiles using basic parameters, such as fuel per minute, total fuel capacity, and cruise speeds. Simulate any aircraft including Cessnas, 737s, Apaches, or even historical aircraft from IL2. Fine-tune waypoints and legs by incorporating time adjustments for AA refueling or landing/rearming procedures, allowing you to calculate times and fuel consumption with remarkable accuracy.

The application also includes handy conversion tables for units like meters to feet, gallons to pounds, and kilometers to nautical miles.

No internet connection required; focus solely on your simulated flight experience.

Important Notices and Future Development

Important Update (October 31, 2025): Shotgun Pinboard is currently undergoing a complete overhaul to ensure future compatibility and implement planned features. While the development cycle has been ongoing, we greatly appreciate your patience. Due to the extensive nature of the update, an exact release date is not yet available.

Shotgun Pinboard V1 is available for free on the Eagle Dynamics forum for review and use (thank you for hosting!). Please note that the free version will not receive updates or support; only the Steam purchased version will be updated.

Limitations

Currently, Shotgun Pinboard does not adjust bearings for map curvature or use a digital online map service. There are also no features for weather adjustments or weight and balance calculations. Speeds are calculated at ground speed with nautical miles and feet as the preferred units.

P.S. Add Some Spice!

Conceal critical information to add an element of surprise to your simulated missions. Sharing the actual mission file can sacrifice realism by revealing hidden threats. Craft a detailed plan for your squad, but keep the presence of an inbound MiG-29 flight a secret.