Grand Tour Flight Planner (GTFP) helps the casual user in the following ways:

1. GTFP simplifies the construction of complicated flight plans from scratch.

2. GTFP can generate over 500 interesting (built-in) flight plans.

3. GTFP can create waypoints from a search, such as  your house address, latitude/longitude,  POI (like "Eiffel Tower", "Grand Canyon"), or IOAC code.

4. GTFP provides an easy way to navigate during VFR flight: It tracks the plane’s heading and the target’s bearing and distance together in a small window that can be overlaid on the main MSFS window. It allows you to slew to the next point in the route.

5. GTFP lets you overlay a small VFR map on top of MSFS where you can zoom in to great detail, or out to show as much of the world as you wish. It tracks your plane in real time. It has options to label political boundaries, show only roads, or show unlabeled geographic features (matching what you see from the cockpit).

A Users' Guide is available. Here is a quote from the FAQ that shows a way to use some of GTFP features.

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I want to fly over both my house and the Cleveland Museum of Rock and Roll. What do I do? Put your house address in the add waypoint box (on the Map page) and click enter key. When the waypoint is created, right click on it and then on “add nearest airport” button (or put a specific airport code in the add waypoint box). Set that airport to be both FIRST and LAST via right click on the airport map pin. Put “Cleveland Rock and Roll Museum" in the add waypoint box and click enter key. Now click on optimize mapped path button to make the shortest route. That should generate the flight plan you want.

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