Getting back to sim now that winter is here.

Downloaded flybywire A320 going to try to use that.

Everybody talks about simbrief or naigraphh

Navigraph has all the airacs and yu must subscribe.  Simbrief more of a flight planner but u need to have an account with navigraph

I believe navigraph can create flight plans, and you can get more accessories

What do people use more

 

Simbrief is owned by Navigraph now. The former is a flight planner as you say, while the latter provides maps, charts, and FMC data. Navigraph by itself doesn't provide flight planning, other than the possibility of manually entering a flight plan so that you can display your route of flight, as well as following your flight's path using symlink, a free Navigraph product. You could use Simbrief by itself and then use something like SkyVector as a source of maps, although that only covers the US and maybe Canada with regard to instrument charts.

There's excellent coordination between Simbrief and Navigraph, and since the former is free to use, so I use both. BTW, there's also Little Nav Map as a planner and rudimentary source of maps. It's perfectly OK for VFR flights.

Simbrief generates flightplans and calculates TOD, fuel, payload etc, which (depending on the aircraft) you can import straight into the sim.

Navigraph generates just the flightplan and can be used to monitor the flight and provide airport information on a moving map. The new version also has VFR maps.

LNM is perfectly capable for vfr and ifr. It is by no means rudimentary. The depth of features are mind boggling if you’ve been using it for many years. 

1 hour ago, jrw4 said:

Navigraph by itself doesn't provide flight planning, other than the possibility of manually entering a flight plan so that you can display your route of flight, as well as following your flight's path using symlink, a free Navigraph product.

You can plan a flight in Navigraph, using the autoroute function, which, however, doesn't work as well as simbrief. Hence, the best practice is to build a flightplan in Simbrief, download it into Navigraph, via the import function. After adding STARs and approaches, it will pin the relevant charts. You can then export the flightplan to, for example, the MSFS world map. Using the recently released beta version of the Navigraph 8.0 ingame charts panel and simlink, route and pinned charts are available within the simulator. 

Ok thanks for the info.  So I  will signup to simbrief and navigraph as it states in the registration.

Also have a subscription to Foreflight (basic)  when I do some real world flying

So I can see all the charts for Canada.

I also tried connecting Foreflight to MSFS20 with his a utility and it works

Okay thanks for all the info

 

1 hour ago, wan2fly99 said:

Ok thanks for the info.  So I  will signup to simbrief and navigraph as it states in the registration.

Also have a subscription to Foreflight (basic)  when I do some real world flying

So I can see all the charts for Canada.

I also tried connecting Foreflight to MSFS20 with his a utility and it works

Okay thanks for all the info

 

Hi. I have pretty much what you describe and am well pleased. I have Navigraph and ForeFlight US basic. I believe you will also be well pleased. 
-B

I use both. When flying airliners I plan using Simbrief and then use Navigraph on a laptop for charts and tracking my flight. If I'm just flying GA I do everything on Navigraph. Whatever I am doing I never ever fly without Navigraph. I simply can't fly without it anymore. It's a superb service.

Simbrief:

• online flight planner, uses somewhat dated navigation data, free.  Some of this data may not be available within MSFS due to MS's limited nav data.

Navigraph:

• database; provides about 30% more navigation data then MSFS, current, multiple cycles per year, base subscription, can tie into your Simbrief account.
• minor additional fee provides for mapping and displays, graphically very nice, currently developing so these displays can be fully utilized within the cockpit, expected in the next few months.

Both of these products are owned by the same company.

 

If you get a subscription of navigraph, how do yu import tha airac into msfs so it has all the lates waypoits airways etc

37 minutes ago, wan2fly99 said:

If you get a subscription of navigraph, how do yu import tha airac into msfs so it has all the lates waypoits airways etc

They have a data manager app that automatically downloads and installs the Navigraph data into MSFS. It also is used to update the FMS AIRACS of MSFS add-ons like the PMDG 737, Fenix A320 etc.

Edited December 10, 20223 yr by JRBarrett

6 hours ago, jrw4 said:

Simbrief is owned by Navigraph now. The former is a flight planner as you say, while the latter provides maps, charts, and FMC data. Navigraph by itself doesn't provide flight planning, other than the possibility of manually entering a flight plan so that you can display your route of flight, as well as following your flight's path using symlink, a free Navigraph product. You could use Simbrief by itself and then use something like SkyVector as a source of maps, although that only covers the US and maybe Canada with regard to instrument charts.

There's excellent coordination between Simbrief and Navigraph, and since the former is free to use, so I use both. BTW, there's also Little Nav Map as a planner and rudimentary source of maps. It's perfectly OK for VFR flights.

I use LNM for IFR flight planning as well.  I find it to be the most intuitive of all the flight planning options (and it's free!)  I just export the plan into Simbrief and then upload that into Navigraph.  It's the best of ALL worlds!!

6 minutes ago, cappy42 said:

I use LNM for IFR flight planning as well.  I find it to be the most intuitive of all the flight planning options (and it's free!)  I just export the plan into Simbrief and then upload that into Navigraph.  It's the best of ALL worlds!!

Just to add all combinations into it, I get the Autoroute from Navigraph, export it into LNM to fine tune it. Then Simbrief to get the rest of the data....

 

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What is it that LNM does that the other two can't?

12 hours ago, Mike S KPDX said:

Simbrief:

• online flight planner, uses somewhat dated navigation data, free.  Some of this data may not be available within MSFS due to MS's limited nav data.

Navigraph:

• database; provides about 30% more navigation data then MSFS, current, multiple cycles per year, base subscription, can tie into your Simbrief account.
• minor additional fee provides for mapping and displays, graphically very nice, currently developing so these displays can be fully utilized within the cockpit, expected in the next few months.

Both of these products are owned by the same company.

 

If you have a subscription to Navigraph it uses the latest data you want to.

If you do not have a subscripton to Navigraph it uses the 2103 database free.