I recently downloaded the SFP 3.3 Beta flight planner - which works beautifully.Running it on a secondary monitor with FS on the main everything is great. However I notice that when using the moving map function while connected to FS9 there is a frame rate hit each time the map updates. So I 'm trying now to run SFP on a networked PC and link to FS9 over the network to ease the load on the FS9 PC. Problem is - how can I get SFP to find FS9 thru the network- so far selecting IPC link only produces a "waiting for FS" message and there doesn't appear to be any way of directing SFP to FS .Has anyone any experience of this very useful program and any clue as to how to get it to work across the network.I have posted a question on the SFP group at Yahoo but thought it might be worthwhile asking the assembled brains on here also.Dave

I do the same thing with NAV 3.1. Before I launch NAV 3.1 on the second machine, I launch WideFS on it. Nav3.1 can do this without WideFS if you run NAV3.1 on both machines, but the traffic will not display, or it is flaky to say the best. WideFS will make addons like this think that MSFS is running on the second machine. When you install it, there is a widefs.dll that you put in the FS9 mudules folder. This dll (server) communicates the the widefs client that runs on the second machine, over the network. WideFS as well as all of his software is top notch. I use his GPSOUT to the same thing to communcate with the second machine when I choose to run Jeppesen Flite Star. Flite Star takes a serial NMEA183 GPS message througth a serial port. GPSOUT (Module) ouputs the chosen GPS sentances on serial port one or two. A serial cable connect to the second machine and Flite Star thinks I have a GPS Connected, and the moving map follows flight sim. Flite Star is expensive and I would not recommend buying them unless you are flying in the real world, in which case it is wonderful. Try the WideFS method first.WideFS and GPSOUT are here:http://www.schiratti.com/dowson.htmlregards,Dennis Mitchell

Thanks for the advice Dennis - this was all I needed to push me into buying WideFS- just d/loaded the file and waiting now for the reg.code. I can see lot's of use for it apart from SFP so it will be money well spent.Dave