You can Add My Two Pennies to The Last Guy's...

[thanosnaranja]

Simple requests:

When I set the Spot View elevation and orientation I'd like it to stick. As it stands now if I set an elevation of 30, or 40 or whatever feet altitude above flight level in a tail follow spot view and I switch to left or right view then back that elevation setting is lost and I have to reset it.

The Garmin GPS GUI just flat sucks. The GPS from FS2002, despite it's flat cartoonish look, was not only more user friendly but ten times more readable. Much easier to follow and fly by. But hey maybe it's me, maybe I'm not using it correctly. Maybe everyone else likes the bad 2 color low contrast display, the unreadble onscreen text, indecipherable range and ground texture objects, the obnoxiously unusable controls interface, sticky menu tree, etc, etc, etc,

Improved coastline textures. in this day and age of satellite photography there ought to be better out-of-the-box coastlines.

Sometimes when I'm just flying around or if I jump out of a flight in mid-flight like my trip to Jamaica (after saving at that point) when I reload the flight later I don't have a flight plan anymore. and there is no ATC link to Jamaica. Regardless I think the Sim should do a better job of recognizing local airports farther out to give me time to set up my approach.

Otherwise great job! (just go back the old GPS)

[Treker4747]

I'm surprised 2004's satelite scenery wasn't alot better, I feel like sometimes I could just fly around in Google Earth's GUI and have a better-loking experience.

Why was 2004's Sat-Scenery so bad? Don't the own/run Terraserver?

I know, I know.

Got to keep system specs down.

Whatever.

I have a high-horsepower machine, so I want to be able to USE it, darn it. Stop holding back programing for people still clutching onto their Pentium 2s!

[andyjohnston]

The GPS works great. Gives you all sorts of information which you can use, and gets you around beautifully.

The one complaint I have about the GPS is when you switch to waypoint mode, the waypoint it will show is usually not the next point on the flight plan, usually it isn't even on the flight plan. It'll be the nearest airport or something. Then after that, anytime you switch to way point mode, it will always show the same airport, even if you've travelled quite far away from it.

As for the coastlines, I don't think we can expect to have satellite scenery everywhere. I find that if you are FL 300 and looking down, satellite scenery looks ggreat, but if you get down low it's a bunch of blurry lines, whereas the regular scenery looks better form high up and down low.

[lionheart]

I am with Andy on that one with the GPS. It would be nice if the waypoints were a bit more organized on readout. When I am doing a run via a GPS autopilot flight, monitoring waypoints is 'out of order'.

I do like the new GPS otherwise and appreciate the ability to reset destinations 'in' the GPS instead of in 'Flight Planner'. Seems more realistic.

Perhaps for the people that like the older version, we could put the old GPS in the future FS as an option. As it stands, you 'can' place the old version of GPS in FS2004 via bringing over (copy/paste) the basic GPS from 2002 to 2004 and then assigning it into your plane of choice(s) via the Panel config file.

Options are nice, especially if they are readily available.

(Still likes the newer GPS though)

[bjpilot]

However, you can't create a multiple-waypoint flightplan in the default 530. If they add this feature, it will quite accurately simulate the real GNS-530, which I have flown with a few times in real life.

[andyjohnston]

That's because you don't create the flightplan in the GPS. Create it in the Flight Planner, and when you click OK it loads into the GPS and will show you all waypoints, and the route.

[bjpilot]

Yes, but this means you have to exit the game and go into a user menu. It would be great to be able to program it on the fly, like the real thing.