55 minutes ago, regis9 said:

After using it for a bit in the H145 I decided to go to their website and have a look at buying the full version but the pricing structure made me a choke a bit, will continue using the free version for now.  

Agreed, pricing is a little high for me to want to jump in and it’s not an item I’d want to be on a subscription based model. Free version works for now, see where the future takes the program and will decide then.

Whether it´s worth 75 Euro per life time at long last depends on your age and life expectancy - if you are 20 years old and do your last flight at 95 it costs just one Euro per annum - acceptable bargain.

I am allready old and decided for the one year professional version, because I dont want to use the GTN without the VNAV Tool which they put into the pro version. 
 

After that year I will see whether there are alternatives on the market to simply navigate the small aircrafts.

10 hours ago, Glenn Fitzpatrick said:

I am not overly in need of VNAV/ILS/fancy airliner stuff

Not wanting to start an argument.. but what you are referring to is modern GA IFR flight... which has little resemblance to airliner piloting.  Airliners typically have Flight Management Computers and fly SIDS, STARS, ILS  etc.  Well equipped GA aircraft have Garmin avionics or similar and fly GPS flightplans and RNAV approaches.

Not saying you have to be an IFR fan... VFR is great and MSFS supports it well, but wanting functioning Garmin capabilities does not make me or anyone a wannabe airliner captain  😉

Edited September 28, 20214 yr by Bert Pieke

14 hours ago, Sigwolf said:

I also really appreciate the work you've done here.  As a sidenote, I have a special place in my heart for FCM, as my initial ATC training happened there several decades ago during the hiring freeze and federal OKC training facility shutdown.  I spent many a cold winter day parking at FCM and hoping my car would still start when classes ended.

I have been considering the PMS, but I have been spoiled by how well the NXi works, and have been flying aircraft based on that even if I would have otherwise preferred other aircraft that didn't happen to be G1000 equipped.  Hopefully things continue to improve on the navigation front, but recent signs are encouraging.

I just left FCM as a controller about 2 months ago, now working at Mpls center.

9 minutes ago, ryanbatcund said:

I just left FCM as a controller about 2 months ago, now working at Mpls center.

Excellent!  Congrats on the move to center.  I recently retired from ZOB.  I really loved the Minneapolis area.  We lived in Bloomington for about a year before I got hired and I would have loved to stay and go to ZMP, but my wife has family in Ohio, so she won out on the choice of center destination.  😜

1 minute ago, Sigwolf said:

Excellent!  Congrats on the move to center.  I recently retired from ZOB.  I really loved the Minneapolis area.  We lived in Bloomington for about a year before I got hired and I would have loved to stay and go to ZMP, but my wife has family in Ohio, so she won out on the choice of center destination.  😜

Thanks!  Hehe that does tend to happen.  After working DLH and FCM, I think we're pretty content staying here!  I'm tired of moving too!  I'm just starting up learning the maps etc.... extremely fun as I'm sure you remember (it's probably way easier now you know for millennials like me hahaha)

4 minutes ago, ryanbatcund said:

Thanks!  Hehe that does tend to happen.  After working DLH and FCM, I think we're pretty content staying here!  I'm tired of moving too!  I'm just starting up learning the maps etc.... extremely fun as I'm sure you remember (it's probably way easier now you know for millennials like me hahaha)

Yeah, maps were kind of a nightmare.  We had to be able to draw the whole center map from memory, complete with airports, navaids, and airways, along with the radials of each airway off their respective VOR's and the MEA's.  Pretty sure they don't require that anymore.  🤣  My area's low sectors owned to the ground almost everywhere, though, so there was a decent amount of non-radar work and knowing those numbers was important, but man, it was a lot to memorize.

5 minutes ago, Sigwolf said:

Yeah, maps were kind of a nightmare.  We had to be able to draw the whole center map from memory, complete with airports, navaids, and airways, along with the radials of each airway off their respective VOR's and the MEA's.  Pretty sure they don't require that anymore.  🤣  My area's low sectors owned to the ground almost everywhere, though, so there was a decent amount of non-radar work and knowing those numbers was important, but man, it was a lot to memorize.

A lot easier than that thankfully.  I did draw out my Duluth airspace map like that though!  I work area 1 here so let's see I talk to ZOB Peck and Gamble and Flint/Lansing.

And oops sorry forum thread off topic hehe.

Edited September 28, 20214 yr by ryanbatcund

I absolutely love the GTN750 Pro.  I split time with a number of g1000-equipped aircraft btwn the GTN750 and the WT g1000 NXi.  It's certainly true that the most advanced and realistic at this time is the NXi, but the constant struggle for menu access and control with the push knobs and difficult to handle attributes of the knobs makes it difficult to make changes quickly.  With the 750 I simply "tap" here and there on the touch screen and get instant easy access.

The inclusion of Navigraph charts and especially METAR reports for all airports makes the Pro 750 especially inviting.

Finally, though you can't set up holds and pattern entries currently in the 750 that the NXi does extremely well, I've found that the PMS work-around that gets rid of the infamous "U-Turn Bug" does a good job of maintaining tracking to the IAF.  Also, the Direct To functions very well with a couple of screen taps (including Direct To an approach waypoint).

Finally, if I read properly between the lines on comments from the authors, once the wonderful work by WT is finished on the g1000 NXi and its code becomes standard in FS2020 the GTN750 and GNS530 will be able to use that functionality.

I'll definitely be interested once their work ports over.

59 minutes ago, RandallR said:

I split time with a number of g1000-equipped aircraft btwn the GTN750 and the WT g1000 NXi. 

If both the G1000NXi and the GTN750 are installed in the same aircraft isn't there some "conflict" between the two units and with which is driving the AP, etc.?  Or do you just have to make sure both are not in the same NAV mode at the same time, or what?

Al

Edited September 28, 20214 yr by ark

Yes, there is definitely a conflict!  You cannot have both installed at the same time.

Before I run the GTN750 I remove the NXi via the Marketplace.  Then I place the GTN750 along with the last WT g1000 mod into my Community folder and restart FS.

To go back to the NXi, I reactivate it in the Marketplace, shut down FS and remove the other mods, then restart.

I usually do a number of flights in a row with one or the other so as to not be doing continuous adjustments and restarts.

4 minutes ago, RandallR said:

Yes, there is definitely a conflict!  You cannot have both installed at the same time.

Hmmm, I have both installed in MSFS... but only one of them in the same aircraft.

Example: Mooney with GTN750,   Turbo Bonanza with G1000NXi.

No need to uninstall in the Marketplace.. 😉

52 minutes ago, Bert Pieke said:

Hmmm, I have both installed in MSFS... but only one of them in the same aircraft.

Example: Mooney with GTN750,   Turbo Bonanza with G1000NXi.

No need to uninstall in the Marketplace.. 😉

Bert,

The intent of my original question was about having both the G1000NXi and GTN750 in the same a/c at the same time, and I thought RandallR's answer was in that context. 

However, I'm still surprised you can have the ' old ' WT G1000 and the GTN750 active (in a NAV sense) in the same a/c at the same time.  Maybe it works if one is in VLOC while the other in GPS mode?

Al

Edited September 29, 20214 yr by ark

OK, that's interesting.  From the PMS documentation:

The WT G1000 Mod (stock version) is compatible. The GTN750 automatically detects if the WT G1000 is installed and displays the extended engine pages if there are some. Engine pages may take 10 seconds to be displayed.

ATTENTION: The WT G1000nxi is not compatible because it has it's own flight plan and currently doesn't synchronize it with the sim.

Now, it could be that you are not using the WT g1000 mod with the GTN750?  Therefore, you may have no issues with the Mooney?