Flight Plan / GPS Nav

[Ethan Stein 890841]

I've been spoiled by MSFS's easy-to-use GPS Nav System. How do you use the GPS to navigate in X-Plane? The manual says to press Enter/Return, then the up arrow key, but I didn't get anything. Was wondering how to enter in a route/waypoints into the GPS.

[Graham Sanders 892576]

I personally use Goodway for routing. I think that it was one of the best software buys I have made. It does everything you need it to.

 

Graham

[Mario Pozzetti 892293]

X-Plane use of the GPS is very simple, you must insert one wayoint at the time, switch the nav button to FMS and hit the LOC/LNAV button. The new Garmin beats the heck out of me cause it's not readable. For a complete flight plan you must use the FMS instrument which albeit primitive works decently well.

[Keith Smith]

If you'd like to program the FMS easily...try my plugin:

http://webspace.fastp[Mod - Happy Thoughts]es.com/~2656/plugins/cax/fms.html

 

There's also a transponder plugin which squawks stdby/normal automatically based on height above the ground and ground speed...It also squawks VFR if you press Ctrl-Shift-V: http://webspace.fastp[Mod - Happy Thoughts]es.com/~2656/plugins/cax/transponder.html

Edited May 17, 2005 at 12:19 AM by Guest

[Ethan Stein 890841]

If you'd like to program the FMS easily...try my plugin:

http://webspace.fastp[Mod - Happy Thoughts]es.com/~2656/plugins/cax/fms.html

 

There's also a transponder plugin which squawks stdby/normal automatically based on height above the ground and ground speed...It also squawks VFR if you press Ctrl-Shift-V: http://www.zoaatc.com/~2656/plugins/cax/transponder.html

 

Great, thanks... I'm starting to get the hang of things.