Nice GPS Freeware Add-on

[Howellerman 104]

Greetings, 

I stumbled across a freeware product called GPS 1.8 the other week, and thought it may make a good substitute for the Flight1 GTN750 which is still MIA (AFIK) in P3D V5.1. It is pretty nice, and a HUGE advance over the default GNS 295/400/500 installations in a number of aircraft. Note that it is a pop-up "display only" addition - you cannot modify your flight plan per se, with the exception that "Nearest" actually works now! The display format is outstanding, and chock full of information.

It has a pretty nice manual to describe all the functions, although I found that the image size recommendation was often a problem on my 3440x1440 monitor. I found that keeping the original size from the panel.cfg file is a good starting point. 

I have it working nicely in older Carenado and Alabeo aircraft. I tried it in an A2A aircraft and it did not work (would not display) because A2A aircraft do not have the Hotkey combos that normally generate a pop-up window.

Check it out! https://dfs2.flightsim.com/download.php?fn=gps_1_8.zip

I believe you will need a Flightsim account to download it.

Edited March 6, 2021 by Howellerman
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[d.tsakiris 418]

3 hours ago, Howellerman said:

Flight1 GTN750 which is still MIA (AFIK) in P3D V5.1.

Mine's working fine. Website also states it's compatible: Click me.

[Howellerman 104]

7 hours ago, d.tsakiris said:

Mine's working fine. Website also states it's compatible: Click me.

Thanks for the info, D. I last read that the update to the Garmin database broke the GTN. Will check it out.

[FPStewy 538]

10 hours ago, d.tsakiris said:

Mine's working fine. Website also states it's compatible: Click me.

When you load the GTN what cycle is it using, mine is 2004. The F1 is compatible with the garmin trainer V2.7.1.0 but not the latest, if you install the latest (I think it's 3.0.1) it won't work. But again change my mind.

[d.tsakiris 418]

We were only talking about 5.1 HF1 compatibility...

[Rogen 1,087]

Don't forget the GPS2020 (now at version 12.4) in the AVSIM library

Cheers

[Howellerman 104]

16 hours ago, Rogen said:

Don't forget the GPS2020 (now at version 12.4) in the AVSIM library

Cheers

Agreed!

I had downloaded this (I have version 12.0) a while back, but promptly forgot to look into it. Perusing the manual just now it looks to be quite sophisticated - will check it out!