Approach Plates/Aerodrome charts within FS9 kneeboard?

[Martin Weber 985033]

Hey all,

Can anyone advise me on a program(freeware) that i can use to insert approach plates into the FS9 kneeboard (something along the lines of 'FSM moving map')

failing that any other type of similar program, as it would help a lot if i could have the plates on my knee board next to my navlog.

i know you can print the plates/charts, but i dont really want to as space in my pc room is much more limited than space on my hard disk..

 

i did do a moderate search for a similar topic first so sorry if this has been addressed before!

 

cheers,

[Paul O'Donnell 969350]

I've seen some sort of application or html which you enter in the kneeboard file. Although I can't recall where I found it. I was looking for the html code that you enter in the kneeboard_keys file. However it affected my fps slightly. It had a web browser with a refresh, back, next button etc.

 

I did find the code to enter in the kneeboard_keys file in the aircraft directory that enables the kneeboard to be a web browser, however there is no back or refresh button. So browsing websites isn;t that great. It's probably easier to switch windows and open a web browser outside of FS.

 

I would also be very grateful to anyone who knows of such a file/application that can show charts and browse the web within the kneeboard in FS.

 

cheers.

[Brian Fuller 973577]

Just an FYI, I tried opening a .pdf file in the kneeboard and it crashed the sim.

[Brian Fuller 973577]

This is interesting,

 

http://www.fs2000.org/last/news.asp?id=8567

 

FS2004 Airport's Chart Viewer v5.0. This is an FS2004 module that will generate and display a map of all the taxiways (with their IDs), gates, parkings, ILS, and runways of any airport of the FS2004 world. Requires Manuel's Service Pack 3. By Manuel Ambulo. 290 Kb

[Martin Weber 985033]

thanks for the link Brian, will check it out.

 

I would also be very grateful to anyone who knows of such a file/application that can show charts and browse the web within the kneeboard in FS.

 

well i use FSM Moving map for that, it has an inbuilt web browser but very limited (no browser button ect) and it resets to the default screen if you alt-tab out of flight sim too, but at least you can read the news and browse the forum during those lenghty trans-atlantic flights but stay in your cockpit at the same time.

 

if your interested you can get it + a review HERE