BuffaloSpeedway Posted September 9, 2018 Share Posted September 9, 2018 Charts that match the old FSX world (at least continental U.S)? I see where this question was asked in the sticky, but didn't seem to get an answer. Were they ever archived? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CRJ_simpilot Posted September 9, 2018 Share Posted September 9, 2018 I don't know about the old FS world, but charts can be had at Flightaware. OOM errors? Read this. What the squawk? An awesome weather website with oodles of Info. and options. Wile E. Coyote would be impressed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloSpeedway Posted November 9, 2018 Author Share Posted November 9, 2018 FSCharts.com has airport info (rwys, ILS freqs, nearby beacons, waypoints, etc) that are very close to the FSX era. Somehow the author was able to write programs that read FS AFD files (it says) and create graphic displays. Very slick, but I think the pilot has bailed out on this site and it is running on autopilot. One of these days it will simply disappear. Anyone else written such programs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeandpatty Posted November 9, 2018 Share Posted November 9, 2018 Learn to use https://skyvector.com/ Charts of all types, IAPs, SIDs, STARS. Great planning tool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloSpeedway Posted November 9, 2018 Author Share Posted November 9, 2018 skyvector.com shows today's world, not the FSXSE world. Many beacons have gone dark between FSXSE and now. Airport runways have changed. Magnetic North has moved. Many old basic airport charts are available in flightsim.com file downloads "apchrts1" & "apchrts2". And there are 2005 sectional charts, such as "us_secp7", but the graphic files are skewed; the doc says they are supposed to be used with something called FSM Moving Map, which I have not gotten to work yet. Again, the best tool would be something like FSCharts.com that reads actual FSX files and displays the world you are actually flying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CRJ_simpilot Posted November 9, 2018 Share Posted November 9, 2018 I don't even have to use FSchrats. I run LittleNavMap on a second monitor and just look there. And most of the time the ILS frequency, etc is in the GPS. OOM errors? Read this. What the squawk? An awesome weather website with oodles of Info. and options. Wile E. Coyote would be impressed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tgon Posted November 9, 2018 Share Posted November 9, 2018 +1 LittleNavmap and it’s free! Best, Phil https://www.facebook.com/groups/UKdirect/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
il88pp Posted November 10, 2018 Share Posted November 10, 2018 PlanG shows the fs data [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeandpatty Posted November 10, 2018 Share Posted November 10, 2018 I use FSAero data (payware), which along with Navigraph updates the FSX Steam system to today's reality. It's all in what you like, NDBs are fine, but I also like using modern FMS SIDs & STARs thru the FMS in several airliners at times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CRJ_simpilot Posted November 10, 2018 Share Posted November 10, 2018 When I flew the PMDG 737 in FS2004 I used FSBuild to create the SID and STARs for both the FMC and the Sim. I could then use ATC, but right before the STAR, ATC would vector you off. So you never have real STAR-like approaches. Of course there is an add-on that does this. Can't remember it's name, but I didn't care for it. I'd rather fly in VATSIM. Which I have done. OOM errors? Read this. What the squawk? An awesome weather website with oodles of Info. and options. Wile E. Coyote would be impressed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloSpeedway Posted November 21, 2018 Author Share Posted November 21, 2018 Am I the only one flying aircraft w/o GPS? It is dawning on me that the reason this isn't a major problem for everybody else is because they use a GPS (I don't even use one in my car - to each his own). That said, Plan-G looks like it is exactly what I have been looking for! Thanks, il88pp, for one of your over 7200 posts on this forum. There is also an older program, NAV, available on the file downloads section of this site, but it uses FS2002 data. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CRJ_simpilot Posted November 21, 2018 Share Posted November 21, 2018 The GPS is really just cheating. I have flown VOR to VOR from Colorado to Vegas, but I just love the GPS for its situational capability, and I use it in lieu of a proper Nav display in the Lear 45 and the F-22 Raptor. If I had a Nav display with a real working FMC, the GPS would go. OOM errors? Read this. What the squawk? An awesome weather website with oodles of Info. and options. Wile E. Coyote would be impressed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
il88pp Posted November 21, 2018 Share Posted November 21, 2018 Hi BuffaloSpeedway:D Glad to hear you like Plan-G. And I see you're already passing the love forward, great! Tip, if you have two monitors, you can do your flying on one monitor, and have plan-G open on the other one. It has a "connect" button. Press that, and you will see your aircraft on the map in Plan-G, and you will see the AI on the map as well. Happy Flights! il.:cool: [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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