Like a lot of people I guess, I have been trying to install Eric Marciano's A320 panel into the new IFDG A320 model within FS9.I have the panel working, and Navdata VOR's, Airports etc showing on the panel display.What I can't do is to get either the FMC or the panel display to read and show IFR flight plans.I have tried creating these with both the FS Flight Planner and with FSNavigator without success so far, although there are several export/import routes and I may not have found all of these. It looks as though there is a way of creating flightplans in Navdata itself, although I haven't got far with it yet either.Is it possible to get the panel to show the route and waypoints on the panel Navigation Display in FS9? I have read comments to the effect that it is impossible.I note that the manual says "It displays the route programmed in the FS2002 GPS system". Is the reference to "programmed in the ... GPS" important? On what is presumably a related topic, can anyone get the FMC to recognise a flight plan in FS9?Or am I wasting my time?

Here's a routine that should work:1) Create flightplan in FSNavigator2) Export from FSNavigator as a FS2004 flightplan3) Load A3204) Go to FS2004 Flight Planner and load newly created flightplan5) Look on the A320 Pedestal and check that the flightplan waypoints are displaying on the Flight Computer.6) Check in the main cockpit that the right-hand MFD is displaying the flightplan (the right-most option for the left-hand rotary switch.) You may need to increase the range with the right-hand rotary switch.7) Set up the cruise altitude, airspeed course etc. on the "dashboard".If everything is now displaying you can take-off, engage the autopilot + Autothrottle and PULL (not push) the Airspeed, Altitude etc. controls to allow the Flight Computer to control the plane. The display should change to a series of "-----"sEven if you've successfully scanned your new sceneries the NavData "purple" data may well be a little off, as most of the database is from FS2000, but the above system does work.Good luck !Alastair

If you have accidentally replaced the FS9's gps_export.dll with the one that comes with the panel, then the panel will malfunction. To solve this, extract the original file from "MSGAME3.CAB" in disc 2. You can use WinRAR, WinZip or expand.exe to extract the file.Make and load a flight plan using FS9's flight planner. Press the CSTR button and you should see yellow lines which represents the flightpath, and white squares represent waypoints. After you are airborned, right click on the HDG bug and you should see the heading becomes --- and the yellow flight plan turns to green. Now the autopilot should follow the flight plan.BTW, I haven't installed the nav database that comes with the panel, since the nav database is really out-of-date and causes stuttering somehow.... and waypoints on the flight plan will be shown anyway without the database, so I don't install them.cheers

So how did you know I'd mucked up the gps_export.dll.......?Thanks, I now have flight plans created either with FSNavigator or FS Flight Planner appearing in both the ND and the FMC.I have installed Navdata direct into FS9 as per the autoinstaller, so I have "installed" the Navdata database as far as that goes.I presume (or rather hope) that affects only the FS9/Navdata directory has had no effect on the original FS9 database in FS9/Scenery.However, from that point I'm unclear which data base is being used for what and what inconsistencies that may create.I don't think I've managed to complete a successful scan of the FS9 root directory with Navdata: it seems to crash somewhere in the Scenery/AFR sub-directory (i.e. the first sub-directory in the list) even if I start with FS9/Scenery as the "root" for the scan. So if I create a flight plan with FSNavigator or FS Flight Planner, what is being shown on the ND & FMC? The Navdata database or the one I used to create the plan? Is for example the runway data in the FMC consistent with what is actually in FS9?Are the waypoints on the plan separate from and therefore potentially duplicates of the "redundant" VOR's, NDB's and airports shown on the ND?I hope the answer is clearer than the question, but I know what I mean!