Otrman

When I create a flight plan using LNM (version 17) I cannot pick the runway I wish to use. For example, flying out of Linden, NJ (KLDJ) always picks runway 27 even though my plan is flying east toward New York. If I fly the plan as is I need to spend time turning the plane to line up with my east bound flight plan. If I change the departure runway to 09, which lines me up perfectly I lose all my way points. Is there a way to let me choose when I am exporting the plan to MS 2020. Any ideas greatly appreciated, Henry

Running version .14 and running MSFS with latest update VI and all latest patches. Tried to Load Scenery and got the following error messages and was told that LNM cannot find the correct directory. I have not changed any directory paths or modified MSFS in any way. I screen captured the message panels but cannot include them in my post as I do not have a URL. Tried latest version LNM .16 same effect. Please help me, Henry

Hi Karol, I don't understand your flight planning method. I did my flight plan from the World Map in MS 2020 flying the Cessna. I took some screen shots so I can get some guidance from you and they are sitting on my desktop and I don't have a URL to put them in so I can send them to you. Is there a way I can send them to you off line? Henry

Hello Karol, Been away from sims battling some heart health issues. Coming back I hooked up with MS and found they had a significant scenery update that concentrated around London itself. I created a simple FP from London City to Buckingham Palace, then onto Heathrow. Saved it, loaded it, and took off. MS provides pointers to POI they added to their library of POIs. Buckingham is about 7 miles from London City airport and sure enough the pointer for Buckingham was visible. Unfortunately so was every other pointer in the vicinity and flight path to Buckingham were visible which utterly spoils the scenery along the way to Buckingham. I only added Buckingham to my FP. Do you know of a way to only display pointers to elements one includes in an FP? Have you ever used Little Nav Map? Regards, Henry

I have created a VFR flight plan from London City to Heathrow airports adding just Buckingham Palace as a point of interest. Created and saved it and after loading it and taking off it shows all of the sight pointers in the area, in this case some 20 or so. Is there a way of not displaying these extra pointers as they distract from the scenery on the way to Buckingham? Thanks in advance, Otrman AKA Henry

Before I Order this I would like to get a pdf version of the user manual for the Bravo. I have been looking around and cannot find one. Can anyone point me to a download. Otrman AKA Henry

Hello, I guess I am stuck between sim worlds right now. I started about 18 mos ago after being told that XP 11 was the end all and be all. Yes, it is very mature, plenty of great planes, but the scenery was much less than I expected. Got started with Ortho4xp and it got to be a pain in the butt to manage. Then MS comes along and the scenery is great and I don't have to store it all on my computer and manage disk space, etc. Thus I have not done much with XP 11 for the past few months. Being in my mid eighties I don't know how long I can wait for MS to catch up with better planes, etc. If I want speed now the best I can do is one of the single engine turboprops. Cheers right back atcha, Henry

In the next day or so I will try to fly it with XP 11 using the WWII Corsair but I think I would have better luck with the Zero or Spitfire. They are both light and turn on a dime. We will see how far I go. When I get to the edge I will turn left and see. In terms of the Castles and other attractions. MS just did an update of what they call UK/Ireland. There are plenty in UK proper and they work just fine. I will just some of the ones they provide and fly manually. I don't even need to use the magenta line as pointers appear and I just steer toward them. I am disappointed in MS regarding Ireland as there are so many historical sites as well as those in Germany, France, Italy, and other countries. Regards, Henry

Karol, thank you for your reply, I am not sure I am ever going to get where you are any time soon. Have you ever tried flying down into and along the river at the bottom of the Grand Canyon. I have done it both in XP 11 using the Cirrus and Cessna and with MSFS using the Cessna. It's challenging and fun. Henry

Thank you for your reply and interest. I fly the Cessna Skyhawk G1000 not using autopilot but flying manually. What plane are you flying. I don't see a method of "locking" a waypoint in LNM or in using MSFS 2020 to create a flight plan. Have you flown the new MS sim? I am very interested in figuring this problem out. BTW, I just flew along east coast down under and the area vegetation is very lush. Henry

First of all please me compliment you on LNM - it has many capabilities for someone who wants to simulate all the aspects of true flight planning in the real world of aviation. As for me, I am 83, and entirely new to flight simulation, about 18 months in having taken up flight simulation on advice of my doctor who advised me to do something that really exercises most of the capabilities of the brain, i.e., memory, quick thinking, on the fly problem solving, reaction time and the like. I started with XP 11 learning the Cessna and flying around as a VFR pilot. I then was seduced by MSFS 2020 by the notion that scenery is downloaded to me as a fly and does not require me to use addons such as Ortho4XP. I did experiment with XP 11 aircraft such as the P51 Mustang, the Corsair, and the F18. What I want to do is to take tours of historical areas flying over, and perhaps photographing, points of interest such as castles, ruins, and the like. I can create a perfect plan if I use the MS Sim to create a specify a point to point route as long as the sim knows about the sites I want to see. In order to work the sites have to be either in the "Community" or "Official" folders of the Sim - and it does indeed work. What I thought I could do was to create waypoints in LNM using coordinates available from various sources such as the web. I created flight plans and both saved and exported them to MSFS 2020 but I do not quite get to a point before, even though I am manually flying, the FP seems to anticipate my next objective and begins to turn a away. I believe it would be a great addition to LNM to support VFR scenery fliers such as I. I have considerable computer experience, 35 years including software development, testing, user support, research and more. As a retired techie, I would be glad to work with you if you would be interested in adding the ability to create flight plans that me integrate my needs into LNM. As a retired vet I don't have a lot of money but have time. Henry

What I am trying to do is to create flight plan in LNM that allows me to add my own POIs in Ireland. The sim has only a couple of them one being Blarney Castle so I have a number of POIs that I would like to fly to. If I create an FP in the sim that uses one of the POIs supplied by MS, I can use the sim to create a flight plan where I get pointers and can reach the POI and continue on to the next one. The problem is when I want to use LNM so that I can create POIs myself I either get a pointer that quickly disappears or no pointer at all. I can follow the flight path using LNM connect but when I get close the plane wants to turn away. I have attached screen shots from a LNM plan showing a flight to observe Muckross Abbey and the view from the sim. I have screen shots as files but cannot attach them to the post as the process seems to want images only from a URL. Otrman

I am using a combination of Honeycomb Alpha and Logitech throttle controllers - flying the Cessna Skyhawk on sightseeing missions but would like add another controller (Logitech Extreme 3D) just to use for Drone camera operations. I need to get way from using the keyboard as it will be easier for me to use the joystick buttons rather than the keyboard because of certain physical limitations and space requirements. To get started I would like to clear all default assignments of Extreme 3D to avoid any conflicts with the Alpha and Throttle controllers. I would then add assignments to the Extreme 3D as I learn Drone and other Camera operations. Is there a way to remove all default assignments before starting this process. Otrman

I do a lot of sightseeing flight planning, not using auto-pilot, but using LNM, and flying MS 2020, tracking progress using LNM Connect. I create points of interest POIs along my flight plan, right now focusing on castles in Ireland, which are not known to the sim. When flying I can keep on course using the pointer that locates the POI and the magenta line. When I am getting close to the POI, the pointer (in the sim) disappears so I never get to see the POI I created in LNM. I create these POIs by editing my LNM flight plan using GPS data from Bing or Google maps, or just by getting location data from the Internet. I save it in LNM and load it into the sim and follow the flight using connect. If I create a FP in the sim using POIs known to MS, everything works perfectly. I have been researching and find that someone things that there are 2 types of waypoints, fly-to and fly-over which describes these but I cannot find any instruction on how to define that types of waypoints and how to create my choice of either fly-over or fly-to. I would like to fly-over the particular waypoint, observe, and perhaps even use the DRONE. I am using 2.6.6 right now. Why can’t I do this in LNM when I can do it in the sim? Otrman

I created this post because I am told that AVSIM is the support site for LNM. I created this post a few days ago and have not received a reply. Am I correct in that AVSIM is the place for LNM support. I have done some further testing on this and find that as long as I create my desired flight plan and the sites I want to visit are available to MSFS flight planning I do not have this problem. That, of course, means the sites I want to visit are in the MSFS community folder and this appear on the MSFS flight planning map to add to the flight plan I am creating. I would like to use LNM for my flight planning rather than doing flight planning in the sim. I really like LNM but need to have a solution for this. Otrman