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in LNM 2.6.4.beta windows 10 google maps sat and def are pixellating from 60nm zooming in - ter is readable to .2 - .12 nm open and other maps from 160nm, sometimes no detail at all us maps are pixellating from 160nm zooming in. have i missed a setting?

. in Australia we have had a major change to navigation aids. many NDBs and VORs have been turned off and RNAV approaches are becoming more available. so if we are trying for a touch of realism in our sim we go with the new charts and plates and aircraft. [...]

i have the Mindstar GNS 430/530 because it uses the RealNav data - so we are using current approach plates rather than 7 years old procedures. There have been many changes to approach procedures since then. Using old approaches is not so critical in the SIM environment perhaps but if we are to use current charts and approaches we need a current nav database. Probably our thinking/expectations have been influenced by our use of reality xp with ILS and vertical guidance approaches. The reality xp GPS will do ILS and LPV approaches with the Bendix/King autopilot and in the ILS case will switch automatically from GPS to VLOC and acquire the glideslope quite early, say at initial approach fix. In the LPV case we must manually select APR once on approach. It is a GPS approach so GPS remains selected on the GPS. But apparently it does the approaches because of a few hacks - 'workaround a bug in the Garmin Trainer to enable automatic GPS->VLOC during ILS approach'. It also switches autopilot to APR mode', links the CDI and the Garmin trainer. For the C172 the Mindstar GNS acquires the glideslope quite late in the procedure - at the outer marker but this is normal in a real world situation. The approach plate will indicate an initial fix and altitude but the glideslope will be above that so that if we make our initial fix higher the Mindstar GNS will acquire the glideslope at a higher altitude. This works in the A2A C182. It would be good for the Mindstar VOR to show heading on mouse over. joe