I seem to remember using a flight planner in the past which -

1) displayed a map showing nearby airports, vor's etc

2) displayed a topography 'map' between the departure airport and the destination airport showing elevations so that you can be aware of minimum altitudes on a vor flight.

Can someone please remind me which flight planner does these things

Thanks

John

 

Little Nav Map is probably your best bet!

 

G

If Little Nav Map, you can put google maps in it.

New maps for LNM - Little Navmap | Little Navconnect | Little Logbook Support Forum - The AVSIM Community

 

Wow what fast responses. Very impressed and thankful.

I looked at Little Nav Map but it seemed there were no maps for my part of the world (Australia) but I noticed that Donor has 'addressed' that.

Thanks again.

[added later]

Not sure if what I did was correct and/or the downloaded 'data' folder allows me to see maps in Australia.

After downloading I copied the data folder to the root directory for LNM, started LNM but could not see any maps other than for Europe (I could not find a method to include an image of the screen shot other than from a url)

 

Edited June 14, 20223 yr by Jarnie
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Edited June 14, 20223 yr by PeterKoller

Thanks. Unfortunately CHF 59.00 (AUD 85) is outside my budget (regardless of free trial).

At the top of LNM, the bottom toolbar is a box labeled Mercator. To the right of that in the box with an arrow that allows you to choose the map you want to use.

I chose Google Map Sat. This image is zoomed in with the zoom wheel.

 

Zoomed out in LNM

(Duplicate, sorry)

Edited June 14, 20223 yr by Fielder

Top of LNM is: Scenery Library / Load Scenery Library. You have to run that app to get all the airports in MSFS data base into Little Nav Map in order to see the MSFS airports in LNM. Then every airport on the MSFS map will show up in Little Nav Map. 

Thanks again.

My lack of knowledge and not looking at any manual which maybe available.

I assume that if I add any 3rd party (new) airports in MSFS that I will need to Load Scenery Library again?

This is really great. I should read any manual and or watch Youtube tutorials.

 

[added later]

If fact (manual) - I was forgetting that LNM is for more than just MSFS

5.1. First Steps

Little Navmap shows various dialogs on first start to give hints for better usage. You can dismiss these dialogs for future starts by pressing Do not show again but keep at least the message in mind.

1. You have to load the scenery library first to see the airports of your simulator. Go to main menu Scenery Library and select Load Scenery Library. Select your simulator and click Load. Also have a look at Scenery Library Menu, Load Scenery Library and Navigation Databases about the different scenery library modes which can be selected in the menu.

Edited June 14, 20223 yr by Jarnie
added last sentence

Yeah, that's right.

 

 

Personally I really like to use Plan G. Their version 4 is compatible with MSFS and I really like it for VOR planning. You can do fun stuff like cross bearings and so on. You'd also get the flight path vs terrain chart that you mentioned in the beginning.

Maps are based on OSM, think you can also choose different display modes somewhere

Cheers

 

I didn't know Plan G worked with MSFS, thanks. 

6 hours ago, Jarnie said:

I seem to remember using a flight planner in the past which -

1) displayed a map showing nearby airports, vor's etc

2) displayed a topography 'map' between the departure airport and the destination airport showing elevations so that you can be aware of minimum altitudes on a vor flight.

Can someone please remind me which flight planner does these things

Thanks

John

 

Hi John,

Start here: