I think MSFS has a feature where you can pin landmarks and airports in the distance so you can get an idea of where you need to be more exactly. Does X plane 11 have that feature?

No, X-Plane dont have this, but you can use the map or the plugin avitab

Dirk

For the record. IMHO.

This "feature" makes me die inside. Of every really bad idea everyone ever came up with for flight sim, this one absolutely ranks among the worst of them for me.

Not only does it look absolutely ridiculous. but it completely spoils the fun of discovering them on your own, whoever authorised dev time on this should lose their job.

I'd lay money it it being the same person that signed off on the "black screen off death" when you crash, that is soooooo bad I dont think I have seen anyone with crashing enabled. Because like, what you want to do everytime there is a crash is forget about it and move on to the next flight..

/end rant & rage.

Edited December 26, 20223 yr by mSparks

So @mSparks, you are raging about a feature in a sim that you stated you don't care about and don't fly. Please make it make sense. Obviously the OP cares about it and wished it was in xplane as well.  It is an optional feature and is not forced onto anyone. News alert, it does not affect the regular simming experience.

4 hours ago, mSparks said:

Not only does it look absolutely ridiculous. but it completely spoils the fun of discovering them on your own, whoever authorised dev time on this should lose their job.

So someone should lose their jobs because you don't like a feature that many tens of thousands likely enjoy?  😄Ummm, okay, Just when I thought some of the comments cannot get anymore ridiculous. 

A quick discovery flights, touring the scenery with points of interest that one would otherwise not have known about can be relaxing when not on a long haul.

I will just assume you are trying to create controversy over a post that should not be controversial at all.

Edited December 27, 20223 yr by brinx

7 hours ago, mSparks said:

For the record. IMHO.

This "feature" makes me die inside

Uh well you can always turn it off ? Don't see an issue here..? On the contrary I think it is a brilliant feature. Let's say I am flying over a country I have never been to in real life, these POIs provide great interest and knowledge of the area. With my time in MSFS, I have discovered so many landmarks which I would have otherwise missed if not for these POIs. 

8 hours ago, brinx said:

that you stated you don't care about and don't fly.

My relationship with MSFS, went something like.

super excited about the announcement, finally a AAA flightsim with big movie budget spent on it available on every platform including consoles.

utterly broken by the first developer interview when it became obvious it was going to be a massive flop, kinda like when critical drinker hears a big budget movie will be all about "the message"

fighting with half of avsim on all the things they should and shouldnt do, half of which Asbobo/MS did actually reverse course on - at least partly - e.g. VR... on xbox...

Being wholly unsurprised by what was actually delivered and mildly amused by all the broken promises.

Not caring nor using it, along with 99% of their potential market 2 years in.

8 hours ago, brinx said:

So someone should lose their jobs because you don't like a feature that many tens of thousands likely enjoy?

People who make/made terrible development decisions that derail a project should always be replaced as soon as possible.

8 hours ago, brinx said:

A quick discovery flights, touring the scenery with points of interest that one would otherwise not have known about can be relaxing when not on a long haul.

relaxing like watching all the movie spoilers just before going to watch the movie?

4 hours ago, Baber20 said:

Uh well you can always turn it off ?

its all the things you still cant turn on because they put effort into "features" like this I was raging at.

8 hours ago, brinx said:

Obviously the OP cares about it and wished it was in xplane as well. 

Nothing wrong with the broader concept, I already added a different solution to my F14: Drawing waypoints on the new hud so I can navigate the mach loop at high speed. 

Took me 6 hours to make for Xplane, MSFS probably put a team of 20 for 6 months on perfecting their "pins".

It was the complete ignorance of what makes aviation such a pleasure and how actual pilots navigate points of interest that makes me die inside.

Edited December 27, 20223 yr by mSparks

mSparks, why are you turning this into a debate and making it about XP vs MFS again? The OP asked a question if it was possible, that was all. Just because you personally don't think it's useful or a good feature doesn't automatically make it bad.

1 hour ago, tonywob said:

making it about XP vs MFS again?

Its nothing todo with MSFS, that was just in reply to "that you stated you don't care about and don't fly." comment, which my reply was explaining why its nothing to do with MSFS.

Map pins on terrain they chose to make a thing and inspired the OP make me die inside just as much as reg numbers floating above AI aircraft. 

Same category as sticking on "god mode" in a single player game so you can walk through walls and not get shot or get infinite ammo.

Plus the OP specifically asks:

16 hours ago, 4df5 said:

MSFS has a feature where you can pin landmarks and airports in the distance

Not "how do you find landmarks and airports without GPS and computers", not "I'd like to do some panoramic flights in XP", not "what are some good tours to do in XP".

Just "I'd like to activate some 'cheats' in XP so I can do that without thinking or putting the work in"

Makes me die inside.

7 minutes ago, mSparks said:

Makes me die inside.

So, there was absolutely no need for you to comment on this thread then, you could have just ignored it. 

Just now, tonywob said:

So, there was absolutely no need for you to comment on this thread then

I also said 

4 hours ago, mSparks said:

Nothing wrong with the broader concept, I already added a different solution to my F14: Drawing waypoints on the new hud so I can navigate the mach loop at high speed. 

 

Hmm, if you are trying to simulate a flight ,wouldn't it be better if you check VFR charts and if there are VOR's  triangulate or use NDB's if available in that area ?  Just my thoughts.  

17 hours ago, 4df5 said:

I think MSFS has a feature where you can pin landmarks and airports in the distance so you can get an idea of where you need to be more exactly. Does X plane 11 have that feature?

The creator and dev team of X-Plane mostly sticks to how things operate in real world.  Therefore they didn't implemented this feature. Until AR becomes popular I don't think such a thing will get traction.  Real world pilots who fly GA/VFR studies the map, route and important navigation landmarks before take off.  Getting familiar with map crucial for piloting. 

Having said that like Dirk M mentioned above you can use a plugin called Avitab and it will show you detail map. Here is a screen shot of Avitab 

19 minutes ago, Humpty said:

Hmm, if you are trying to simulate a flight ,wouldn't it be better if you check VFR charts and if there are VOR's  triangulate or use NDB's if available in that area ?  Just my thoughts.  

Sure, but that's not what the original poster asked. He just asked if it was possible and it's been answered nicely above, that's all. Not everyone uses the simulator this way 

7 minutes ago, tonywob said:

Sure, but that's not what the original poster asked. He just asked if it was possible and it's been answered nicely above, that's all. Not everyone uses the simulator this way 

Yep, just wanted the OP to know he / she can use the nav instead if need be

Edited December 27, 20223 yr by Humpty

10 minutes ago, tonywob said:

Sure, but that's not what the original poster asked.

Or it is what the original posted wanted to know, and would have asked, had the whole topic of navigation not been dumbed down so much in MSFS by devs to lazy and inexperienced in aviation to actually do a half decent job of simulating and explaining it.

Hence my initial rant.

Edited December 27, 20223 yr by mSparks