Hi

 

Everybody knows that the fms update is a piece of ###### from Carenado because:

 

- VNAV is unusable (does not respect the ALT set, no TOD calculated, vspeed can be ######in crazy, more than 6000ftm, no vpath calculated...)

- NAV is unusable (editing the STAR or APP inroute remove all your fight plan)

- the AP is bugged (click on the vnav button disengages the AP, etc...)

- FMS is stupid (no vnav page...) and displays wrong information (fuel, next flight plan waypoint is more updated in LNAV mode, etc...)

- the MFD is no more readable (too much points displayed)

 

Ok. We can't do anything for that, except for the last point.

 

You can customize the waypoints displayed on the MFD by editing the MFS640.xml file.

Just unpack the MFD640_C550.cab file in your gauges folder then edit this file.

 

Line 1191: Just put 1 or 0 as value to display (or not) Airports / VOR / Ndb / fix

<CustomDrawParam Name="NearestAirportEnabled">
	<Value>1</Value>
</CustomDrawParam>
<CustomDrawParam Name="NearestVorEnabled">
	<Value>1</Value>
</CustomDrawParam>
<CustomDrawParam Name="NearestNdbEnabled">
	<Value>1</Value>
</CustomDrawParam>
<CustomDrawParam Name="NearestWaypointEnabled">
	<Value>1</Value>
</CustomDrawParam>

Line 1227: Also you can customize the decluttering by editing the following lines.

Just put the max range that points should be displayed as values.

Acceptable values are : 1, 2, 5, 10, 15, 20, 30, 40, 50, 75, 100, 150 ...

 

There are three series of nodes :

- to completly hide the point and its icon

- to remove the icon only

- to remove the text label only

 

eg: from range 1 to 50 you can display airport icon + text label but icon only from range 50 

<CustomDrawParam Name="NearestAirportsRangeSkip">
<Value>100</Value>
</CustomDrawParam>
<CustomDrawParam Name="NearestVorRangeSkip">
<Value>30</Value>
</CustomDrawParam>
<CustomDrawParam Name="NearestNdbRangeSkip">
<Value>50</Value>
</CustomDrawParam>
<CustomDrawParam Name="NearestWaypointsRangeSkip">
<Value>15</Value>
</CustomDrawParam>

<CustomDrawParam Name="NearestAirportsRangeSkipText">
<Value>50</Value>
</CustomDrawParam>
<CustomDrawParam Name="NearestVorRangeSkipText">
<Value>30</Value>
</CustomDrawParam>
<CustomDrawParam Name="NearestNdbRangeSkipText">
<Value>50</Value>
</CustomDrawParam>
<CustomDrawParam Name="NearestWaypointsRangeSkipText">
<Value>15</Value>
</CustomDrawParam>

<CustomDrawParam Name="NearestAirportsRangeSkipIcon">
<Value>100</Value>
</CustomDrawParam>
<CustomDrawParam Name="NearestVorRangeSkipIcon">
<Value>30</Value>
</CustomDrawParam>
<CustomDrawParam Name="NearestNdbRangeSkipIcon">
<Value>50</Value>
</CustomDrawParam>
<CustomDrawParam Name="NearestWaypointsRangeSkipIcon">
<Value>15</Value>
</CustomDrawParam>

By editing the others parameters of this file you can change icons, reduce text size, etc...

Just look the name of node's key and try some values!

 

Enjoy !

 

 

 

My custom file (for lazy people) :

http://dl.free.fr/vmklmbLPJ

 

Smaller icons pack (30%) :

http://dl.free.fr/hWmMw7x1a

 

(unpack in your CarenadoNavigraph folder)

 

ps: sorry for my poor english langage...

I don't own the expansion pack, but it looks very good. Good solution, good job. THX

Excellent work. This should help quite some "cluttered" FMC users. And, at the same time, make us wonder why this setting was left out by Carenado in the first place.