March 15, 20215 yr 1 hour ago, jrw4 said: unless one had a way of keeping an out of date set of approach plates on hand I lived for many years on just-out-of-date charts and plates. As former Air Force and former pilot I easily knew where to visit and was always comfortable building friendships with current instrument rated pilots. By the same notion I have never spent a dime on nav data for Reality XP products. Hand-me-downs for GNS, and Garmin updates the GTN Trainer once or twice a year. Reality XP has been quick to update their GTNs for compatibility. Those Garmin GTN Trainer updates include non-current but still very recent GTN nav databases. Edited March 15, 20215 yr by fppilot Frank Patton Corsair 5000D Airflow Case; MSI B650 Tomahawk MOB; Ryzen 7 7800 X3D CPU; ASUS RTX 4080 Super; NZXT 360mm liquid cooler; Corsair Vengeance 64GB DDR5 4800 MHz RAM; RMX850X Gold PSU;; ASUS VG289 4K 27" Display; Honeycomb Alpha & Bravo, Crosswind 3's w/dampener. Former USAF meteorologist & ground weather school instructor. AOPA Member #07379126 "I will never put my name on a product that does not have in it the best that is in me." - John Deere
March 15, 20215 yr 2 hours ago, Bobsk8 said: I flew ILS, Rnav and visual approaches in the Mooney for weeks using the 530. Worked fine for me. The MSFS 530, even with a very good mod, is just a bit better than using a water pistol in a paintball shooting competition. Edited March 15, 20215 yr by fppilot Frank Patton Corsair 5000D Airflow Case; MSI B650 Tomahawk MOB; Ryzen 7 7800 X3D CPU; ASUS RTX 4080 Super; NZXT 360mm liquid cooler; Corsair Vengeance 64GB DDR5 4800 MHz RAM; RMX850X Gold PSU;; ASUS VG289 4K 27" Display; Honeycomb Alpha & Bravo, Crosswind 3's w/dampener. Former USAF meteorologist & ground weather school instructor. AOPA Member #07379126 "I will never put my name on a product that does not have in it the best that is in me." - John Deere
March 15, 20215 yr For approaches, ILS more or less works okay...I guess...as long as you don’t plan on flying GPS direct to the IAF. RNAV approaches are mixed. Vertical guidance for LNAV or LPV approaches is all wrong. It’s doable, but it doesn’t work anywhere close to how it should. Chris
March 15, 20215 yr Getting back to the OP's original question concerning shooting approaches with a Garmin equipped M20R, Alabeo appears to make such an add-on for X-Plane. https://www.alabeo.com/sitealabeo/product/m20r-ovation-x-plane-11/#tab-requirements The developer indicates that this model is compatible with the RealityXP 530 gauge https://reality-xp.com/index2.html#tabs RXP even has a sale going on right now. Problem solved! John Wiesenfeld KPBI | FAA PPL/SEL/IFR in a galaxy long ago and far away | VATSIM PILOT P2 i7-11700K, 32 GB DDR4 3.6 GHz, MSI RTX 3070ti, Dell 4K monitor
March 15, 20215 yr Ryan gave the above advice. Go X-Plane or P3D if you want a realistic GNS530 implementation. MSFS
March 15, 20215 yr 6 minutes ago, DJJose said: Ryan gave the above advice. Go X-Plane or P3D if you want a realistic GNS530 implementation. This is unfortunately the only possible way for now: The major reasons which are preventing our customers from flying a Reality XP GTN or GNS in FS2020 have nothing to do with sandboxing.
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