When flying IRL I use a tablet with moving map software to navigate, get WX/NOTAMS etc.

Is there an app to do this with the sim?, I.E. connect to the sim and show progress on the app.

Somebody did recommend one to me some time ago (I forget what it was called) but it only had US Coverage, I fly mostly in Europe.

Anything out there?

 

Burt

Aivlasoft EFB is your answer, and it has a one-month free trial too. I have been using it since initial release (FSX time if I recall correctly) and cannot fly without it. Highly recommend it.

Navigraph+Simbrief package does all of those.

Aivlasoft is definitely a good option, although this is the first time I hear you can put it on a tablet. I've always used it on a second monitor. More frequently, though, I use Navigraph Charts on my tablet.
 

The nice thing about Aiblasoft is that it can show your aircraft's vertical position in relation to the glide slope, which Navigraph doesn't do.
 

I don't know if LNM can also show on a tablet, but people use that as well for putting the aircraft on a map.

52 minutes ago, Lonesome Cowboy Burt said:

When flying IRL I use a tablet with moving map software to navigate,

Maybe you should try googling the navigation software you are using IRL in conjunction with "MSFS", because there are solutions for several of them (SkyDemon for example), most being inexpensive or even free. It's basically a small programm being able to read data from simconnect, and most IRL naviagtion solutions have a corresponding input option.

Otherwise: +1 for Navigraph

As has been mentioned, Simbrief and Navigraph work nicely.

Edited November 6, 20232 yr by Rockliffe

Here are 2 I'm using:

FS Navigation Map – from drubware.net

VFR Map – Android App Development (tambucho.es)

 

4 hours ago, Lonesome Cowboy Burt said:

When flying IRL I use a tablet with moving map software to navigate, get WX/NOTAMS etc.

Is there an app to do this with the sim?, I.E. connect to the sim and show progress on the app.

Somebody did recommend one to me some time ago (I forget what it was called) but it only had US Coverage, I fly mostly in Europe.

Anything out there?

 

Burt

Navicharts should do the trick.

Would be really cool if there was a way to xfer flightplans back and forth to an iPad like the Garmin 210/510 allows via bluetooth. Foreflight / garmin pilot / fltplan go etc.

I use Garmin Pilot which is used Real World.  I have Simbrief/Navigraph also, but I really like using real world software.

Why not use the same software you use in the real world on your tablet - no additional EFB software required.  I use xmapsy to connect Garmin Pilot / Foreflight to MSFS

Edited November 6, 20232 yr by MrBitstFlyer

17 minutes ago, MrBitstFlyer said:

I use Garmin Pilot which is used Real World.  I have Simbrief/Navigraph also, but I really like using real world software.

Why not use the same software you use in the real world on your tablet - no additional EFB software required.  I use xmapsy to connect Garmin Pilot / Foreflight to MSFS

Cool but its all in British! So confusing 🙂

7 hours ago, Lonesome Cowboy Burt said:

When flying IRL I use a tablet with moving map software to navigate, get WX/NOTAMS etc.

Is there an app to do this with the sim?, I.E. connect to the sim and show progress on the app.

Somebody did recommend one to me some time ago (I forget what it was called) but it only had US Coverage, I fly mostly in Europe.

Anything out there?

 

Burt

If you are flying in North America and parts of the caribbean this app cannot be beat. It is owned by Garmin and is for both real world and for flight simulation.  It links via simconnect to flight simulators.  100% free.  No subscription costs.  All procedures plates, moving map, live weather fronts and radar, wind depiction at all altitudes, flight plans depicted and editable on the moving map to adjust to changes in arrival/approach procedures.  Just so much more so difficult to describe in a message.  Click the titile of the linked topic below to see a review I posted in 2015.  It has gotten better and better.  Must connect to network on which the simulator is running.  Versions for both IOS and Android.

 

 

 

I think an app called Sky4Sim meets your requirements. It has flight planning and a moving map and weather, etc.

12 hours ago, Tom_L said:

Maybe you should try googling the navigation software you are using IRL in conjunction with "MSFS", because there are solutions for several of them (SkyDemon for example), most being inexpensive or even free. It's basically a small programm being able to read data from simconnect, and most IRL naviagtion solutions have a corresponding input option.

Otherwise: +1 for Navigraph

Oh thanks, Skydemon is what I use and would be perfect if I could use that in the sim

I only fly Small aircraft under VFR so some of the sim based stuff suggested is far more complex than I need, but thanks for all the replies