Plan-G users, the manual for V3 is up!

[CoolP 283]

A HU for you VFR flyers, loving the service of the free Plan-G soft. V3 may be very close and if you want to take a look on the features, make sure to read on here. http://www.tasoftwar...hp?topic=1930.0

 

A small text from the manual.

 

Plan‐G Version 3 is a brand new, completely revised version, and now uses Open Street Maps as its mapping base.

 

Many new features have been added to Version 3 to make Plan‐Gv3 the essential Flightsimmers utility application. As well as working with FS9 and FSX, Plan‐Gv3 now interfaces with X‐Plane, and with VATSIM if the user is connected to the Internet.

:Applause:

 

And if you never looked at Plan-G so far, perhaps do so. It's free, it's easy and it's a blast. Award winning freeware that is.

[Guest]

Cool! I like this:

 

"RADIAL menu allows you to click on multiple VORs or NDBs and display specified radials from them for easy identification of intersections."

[rototom 198]

Thanks for the link.

[MauB 74]

A great tool getting better! Thanks for the link CoolP.

[Andydigital 93]

I hope its a little more reliable now and not so resource hungry, the current version ran like crap on my 2600k@4.5Ghz even without that much data selected for viewing. I suppose .Net is to blame for a lot of that though.

[CoolP 283]

You mean with high map details, Andy. Agreed. I guess we saw a lot of IE 'engine' acting in the background, sometimes being overwhelmed by the sheer mass of information. Maybe the new approach helps.

 

Flying PNW, with all airfields showing and the airspace plus navaids really took a hit. Right you are. Same for the zoomed out view.

[Andydigital 93]

Yeah but that is the thing though I didn't really have that much detail enabled and it still ran badly at times, if it had anything to do with internet explorer in its design then its surprising it works at all,lol. I wish Microsoft would stop making web browsers altogether they suck at it monumentally.

[Rocky_53 1,597]

Yeah but that is the thing though I didn't really have that much detail enabled and it still ran badly at times, if it had anything to do with internet explorer in its design then its surprising it works at all,lol. I wish Microsoft would stop making web browsers altogether they suck at it monumentally.

 

I agree, 100%

[Kaan KASIM 54]

How about you stop saying things suck if you don't have any idea how plan-g works.

 

Plan-G uses the old ie engine since it wasn't made for the new one.(ie's own compatibility thing) Any browser from a couple years back would choke on that much data just as bad.

[gheeD 62]

Awesome! I was looking for a Plan-G -type map for X-plane the other day, but only found some tricky guides to get it to show on GE. Good to see that Tim will be implementing it into Plan-G. Been using it from very early on, might be a bit resource hungry but i don't mind really. It does it's job amazingly.

[CoolP 283]

if it had anything to do with internet explorer in its design then its surprising it works at all,lol.

:LMAO:

 

I was assuming that IE tech being in the background because the fix for that 'do you want to end this script running?' question (for V2) was a fix for some IE stuff. Well, if my memory doesn't trick me. Ah. there it is.

When I'm showing large amounts of detail on the map, with lots of overlays, I keep getting script warning messages: "A script on this page is causing Internet Explorer to run slowly. If it continues to run, your computer may become unresponsive. Do you want to abort the script?"

This is a normal consequence of trying to do massive amounts of work in an Internet Explorer script. When you have lots of overlays being drawn, it is very easy to get a situation where you have many tens of thousands of points being plotted, lines drawn, markers drawn, and erased etc. Fortunately it is possible to disable this message, and Microsoft has provided a tool to do so. Click on the link: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q175500 and follow the instructions.

 

 

Don't worry, Kaan, I'm sure Andy didn't mean anything bad with that word. You are right though, it may be read differently than intended. He appreciates that free work for sure. No doubt.

[Kaan KASIM 54]

True, sometimes I seem too harsh I guess. Not my native language. ^_^

[CoolP 283]

Do you know if V3 incorporates a change on that end? I mean, I have V2 running, right now. Love it!

[Kaan KASIM 54]

No, all I know is he changed the mapping provider from google to openstreetmap.

[CoolP 283]

Ok, we'll wait and see. Either way, it's amazing to see the development and also the other sim engines receiving support.