andrew222

Hi. I'm trying to get my head around flight planning in msfs 2020 and would like to learn navigation with just Vors and Ndbs only. Looking at the UK on Skyvector I can see that some airports have this type of info available but many don't. Say for example I wanted to depart one airport and arrive at another that's approx 400 miles away and the arrival airport is only small and has no vor or ndb, how would I get to it? I see i can check the map for Vors and Ndbs close to that direct route and perhaps zig zag to them to get to my destination but what if there weren't any close to that specific direct route? I'd have to do some pretty large zig zags. In MSFS the obvious choice would be to just to add the departure airport and arrival airport and the gps is set up to follow the direct line but I don't want to use it that way and instead navigate as I mentioned above. Really enjoying flight simming and love reading online tutorials and videos but seem to get stuck on may things. Cheers, Andrew Forgot to add that my choice of aircraft is the C172 with or without G1000 .

Thanks very much for the reply. I only use X-Plane 11 but have now started with MSFS 2020 so wanted to update both of those. Didn't realise the free navigraph data was 3 years old so will get the 1 month subscription and update. 😉

Hi. Very new to LNM and was wondering if I could get a one month subscription to Navigraph, export the most recent database and import it to LNM? Basically I don’t want to get an ongoing subscription to Navigraph as can’t afford it but would like the latest airport details. Is that possible at all or no real major difference between the latest AIRAC Cycle 2010 and the free one that comes with LNM? Thanks for any help. Andrew

Thanks again. I downloaded the Oculus tray tool and tried a few settings. Your right, 1.5 /1.6 does make quite a bit of difference over the default settings on the Rift S. The panel was a lot sharper and easier see. I left my post up on Gumtree during that time and someone offered to buy the headset so its off in the mail today. I'm not interested in the Quest or Facebook and looks like support for Rift S will go next year so will see what the Reverb G2 is like. Back to the original poster, try VR out with whatever headset you can get your hands on just to experience what the flying is like. Really good fun.

Hey Flyfox. I had no idea about the supersampling and just used the Rift S as it was installed. At work now but just looked up the Oculus Debug Tool online and will give it a go tomorrow. The guy in the Youtube clip set it to 1.5 so will start with that. To be honest I was a little gutted when I gave up with the Rift as the flight experience makes the regular monitor version feel like playing an app on your phone. I just packed up the Rift and put it up for sale on Gumtree here in Australia. Better unpack it again for a weekend of testing and will report back 😉 One thing I did read though this morning was that facebook are packing in the Rift S. Cheers fron Downunder

I first tried VR using the Oculus Rift S in Xplane and was totally amazed. Everything was more enclosed, confined and life size and you can move your head around freely which is a lot more natural than using the hat switch. Yes at first it does feel like your wearing a dive mask as the view is restricted but as other have mentioned once you get into the flying you kind of forget. After the flight you actually feel like you've been somewhere and is truly impressive. I wouldn't recommed the Oculus Rift S or any of the 2020 current Oculus range at all though as the resolution is fairly low and can be quite frustrating when concentrating and trying to read the gauages, gps etc. even when you lean forward and look close. For now, I have an old Track IR 4 that I dug out last week and found that to be very useful. To be honest I'd struggle to enjoy a flight withought it now as you also have 6dof although it is obviously limited to the monitor in front of you. There's no real confined immersion that you get with the VR headset but it is realistic for looking around the cockpit. Drawback is that the newer TrackIR 5 is disgustingly over priced for what it is.... seriously too expensive but if you can get a secondhand V4 it would be good and keep you going until higher res VR headsets hit the market. Lots of hopes on the Reverb G2 and may run smooth in Xplane with settings lowered. No idea about MSFS 2020 even if/when it does get VR as the frame rates will tank considerably. Have to love the new MSFS though with all it's great graphics. Loads of bugs but will hopefully catch up. Hope that helps.

If your interested in Aviation museums there's a couple of incredibly detailed and free 360 degree virtual tours of the Darwin Aviation Museum, NT and also the Perth Aviation Museum, WA in Australia. Take a good look around a B52, Lancaster, Catalina, Dakota C47, Avro Anson, B-25 Mitchell Bomber , Wessex helicopter, COBRA AH-IG and many other aircraft and displays. There's also the B-24 J Liberator 'Milady' Wreck Site in Cox Peninsula, NT that you can explore without the humidity. Very little chance of international visitors stopping by these locations in person this year and perhaps even next year so a bit of support via online visitors will go a long way and you only need to register with your name and email address to access the tours. vuseum.com

Hi, Something slightly little different If anyone's interested. There's 3 Australian aviation museums up online that you can tour for free. Don't imagine that many people will ever get the chance to visit them in Western Australia with it being so remote so this is the next best thing. No VR headset required..... just view the tours on your PC or iPad 📱 https://vuseum.com Cheers, Andrew (Downunder)

Ok, I can live without ENB/Shade for now. It'll be working at some point down the line as the effect looks too good to leave out. To be honest I'm just happy with P3D running as smoothly as it does while I'm trying to get my head round simulated flying lessons. I used to be really interested in flying a couple of years ago but got so fed up with FSX crashing I eventually gave up and the yoke, pedals, Track IR etc went back into their boxes. Opened the boxes again last week and happily following tutorials when I get the time. Need to get in a real Cessna 152 soon though and see if I enjoy the real thing :shok: Andrew

Many thanks for the replies. ENB does actually work and looks really nice (not as sterile) once you've minimized and then restored the P3D window so perhaps the issue is related to this menus.dll so hopefully the update will fix it. I purchased 'Shade' the day before I installed P3D but couldn't seem to get it working. Will try again tonight.

Just curious to see if anyone else has problems with Prepar3d crashing while using the additional ENB files in the root folder? At first I thought ENB wasn't working until I minimized the window and then maximized and then it started up. Looked great and way better than the default lighting. All was fine until I went to look at the map while flying then just got a black screen. Did quite a few tests and the crash starts when ever I choose something from the top left menu bar (change weather, change aircraft etc). If I just fly and don't touch the menu then no crash and beautiful lighting Taking the two files out the root folder and the crashing was removed. I know the simple solution would be to 'don't use emb or don't access the menu' but it looks so good and I've noticed a few screen shots on this forum with enb used some it must work correctly Any advice would be great. Thanks. Andrew

Excellent Idea Stephen and it worked. Many thanks from the West coast of Canada.I'm writing the process out so it can get picked up by stressed people also looking for the same solution via Google :good:First I completely uninstalled the catalyst program and then rebooted. The display was still the same so something AMD / ATI was still running things. Went to Device manager and looked at the display adapter driver and it was still using one that was dated 1/26/11 V 8.821.00. Uninstalled that, deleted the two folders (AMD / ATI ) that were on the C drive and then rebooted and then finally got the large stretched desktop and icons so everything was now deleted.Installed the latest catalyst program program, rebooted but textures still looked crap in Flight.Went back to the Device manager - display adapter driver - and noticed that windows had put the same old driver back in so did a 'Update Driver' and manually browsed for it instead of letting windows play silly buggers and wasting everyone time. Took a guess at this one below dated 12/5/2011 and V 8.930.0.0C:AMDSupport12-1_vista_win7_64_dd_cccPackagesDriversDisplayW76A_INFLook what I got nowThanks again,Andrew

Hi Gsmaciel,Unfortunately uninstalling it all didn't do the trick as it was still the same after downloading it again and installing the planes. I think I saw a post yesterday on the AMD forum mentioning something along the lines of 'No smoothing was applied to the shadows and the textures looked really crap close up'.I don't have FSX installed anymore (got fed up with it crashing) but last time I used it the textures up close were spot on.It may be an issue with the Radeon drivers? I have 2 X 5870 ATI cards (500mhz each) and all is up to date as far as the Catalyst version.I guess Flight has only really just come out so we have to wait for AMD to catch up

It certainly is an odd one as all the planes are the same. I looked again at the scenery and to be honest that isn't too clever either when seen up close but from a distance it looks fine.Hey, it's just like the old days messing around with FSX to get the graphics looking good. :Party:Think I'll just uninstall the whole thing this evening then download and install it again.

Hi,I was wondering if anyone else had this issue and sorted it out?The actual aircraft texture on all my installed planes look pretty rough bit the scenery textures outside look fine. Really odd. At first I thought it was a ploy by microsoft to get you to buy the extra planes then all looks good but it was not to be.I'm running 2 X 5870 ATI cards 500mhz each on a reasonable system that displays FSX just fine. Tried changing the different settings within Flight but no luck. As I said though the scenery looks great.Any help would be appreciated please.Thanks,Andrew