When making long flights, I sometimes like to sit downstairs with my wife, and let the plane go about it's business. I can never fully relax though, having to go upstairs frequently to check progress.Is there a piece of software that could go on to the laptop, that could show the AC position, flight plan, and let me check progress?Thanks for any help,Gareth

If you are flying online ServInfo will show your progress. But then flying online you shouldn't be away from the flightdeck for more than half an hour.Rob Elliott, EGPE InvernessPSS Airbus Support andAirbus Fleet Training Captain, British Airways Virtual [email protected]http://www.speedbirdonline.co.uk/airbus.htmlhttp://www.bavirtual.co.uk

Hi Rob,Thanks for your reply. I'm not flying online.

You could do this relatively easy.WideFs, and something like FS flight keeper.Used together the fs flight keeper will give you all the information of what's happening with your flight :)

yep, flight keeper wouldwork. I use it with my notebook sitting next to me desktop FS machine on a lan. but you could even go wireless presumably.

Cool. I'll look in to that, thanks.

Hi Gareth,If you're an XP user, you can use remote desktop functionality of Windows to connect to a remote computer and take it over. This way you can watch your flight..

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Here is what I do when I monitor my flight's progress remotely.I use WideFS combined with GPSOut, both from Peter Dowson (http://www.schiratti.com/dowson.html). Over a wireless connection, I run a free moving map (PocketFMS) to display my LAT & LON, altitude, course, flight plan, and all navaids/airports in the area. (WideFS will also work with other utilities that show flight tracking as long as they are not a built-in module, like FS Navigator).The only thing you have to pay for is WideFS, and that's not so bad when you factor in all the other things you can do with it to relieve the load on your desktop CPU.Bruce

Thanks for the suggestions everyone. I've got Flight Sim Commander monitoring FS on my laptop now, which seems to work very well.Thanks again,Gareth Evans

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