G'day all,I recently had need to print from FSX the navigation log for a nice flight plan I had drafted. Problem was, it wouldn't print. :( So - because I needed to print "right now!" - to get around the problem I just print-screened it, pasted into Paint and printed it off from there. A bit of extra work, yeah, but I didn't then have the inclination to start beating around looking for the answer.Tonight I did a search on this problem and found the answer in a pretty surprising place... A post made in Jan. 2006 about FS9! (See the post here: FS9 will not print ....) I read it thinking, "Nah! But I'll give it a go." It turned out to be correct, even though I'm using FSX on Win7 RC1 with FireFox installed.I'm sorry, but I feel this is either poor (or lazy) programming design or a deliberate attempt to make us poor customers who dare to try other vendor products more dependent on MS's own facilities.Rant mode off... Slowly returning to normalcy now. (I hope this post helps someone, by the way!)

Owi:Yes, as far as I know, FSX will not print. However, if you need to refer to the nav log created by FSX's flight planner during a flight, you can bring up the kneeboard (I don't recall the default key - mine is mapped to a joystick button), which includes the nav log. After you set your radios you can close the kneeboard and enjoy your flight.

Owi:Yes, as far as I know, FSX will not print. However, if you need to refer to the nav log created by FSX's flight planner during a flight, you can bring up the kneeboard (I don't recall the default key - mine is mapped to a joystick button), which includes the nav log. After you set your radios you can close the kneeboard and enjoy your flight.

HelloAs far a you know FSX will not print ?FSX prints just fine, I have Firefox set as my default browser.This has been known and discussed many times over the years.It used to be that if you let Firefox set itself as the default browseryou would lose the ability to print from FSX.It seems (at least on this machine) that FSX will print if Firefox isthe default browser.I just press print from the navlog page of the flightplanner and FSX calls up my normal printer dialog.Something has changed along the way as this was never the case in the past.

I just write that stuff down on a piece of paper. When I do Reviews, I keep pencil and paper handy to take notes, so a few more scribbles aren't bothersome. Sometimes, I will draw my own approach plates, too. I never realized that printing from FSX was a concern, so it's good to bring the topic up. I just never bothered with the high-tech solution. Jeff ShylukSenior Staff ReviewerAVSIM

I would guess that it wasn't done intentionally to try to force users not to use non-MS web browser, but that it was done out of laziness of simply calling default web browser instead of having it call for IE specifically.