How to Fly a Flightplan

[Kiwiviator]

Forgive me if this question has been asked and answered before, but I loaded Plan G last night and went through the process of making the "Scenic" flightplan as per the manual. Then I decided to go fly!

Plan G connected alright with FSX, but my question is how do I get the aircraft to follow the flightplan and maintain the altitudes as described in that flightplan? Do you have to import the flightplan into the GPS or should the flightplan work and be activate by just connected Plan G to FSX?

I am running FSX in windowed mode and a second monitor to display Plan G. I am running Windows 7 64 bit.

I love the flight planner, and making the scenic flightplan was an eye opener as to it's capabilities.

Paul

[Grunt]

Forgive me if this question has been asked and answered before, but I loaded Plan G last night and went through the process of making the "Scenic" flightplan as per the manual. Then I decided to go fly!

Plan G connected alright with FSX, but my question is how do I get the aircraft to follow the flightplan and maintain the altitudes as described in that flightplan? Do you have to import the flightplan into the GPS or should the flightplan work and be activate by just connected Plan G to FSX?

I am running FSX in windowed mode and a second monitor to display Plan G. I am running Windows 7 64 bit.

I love the flight planner, and making the scenic flightplan was an eye opener as to it's capabilities.

Paul

You have to load the flight plan into FSX and then when you open the GPS the route will be shown.  You can load the flight plan from the menu if you have a flight open or load it from the opening screen.

[Kiwiviator]

Thank you very much sir!!

Paul

[ribitt]

Perhaps this has already been covered, but your aircraft has the have the flight plan selected (.pln format) and it will show up on your GPS screen. Then the autopilot must be turned on in GPS mode (not Nav). Then you connect your A/P to the flight plan (Ctrl + N) and you are in business.

Then bring up the Plan-G screen and select Home/Connect, then Lock to centre things up.  Then you have a moving map of your location.

Then you sit back and enjoy the marvelous way that Pan-G works.

Ribitt

[ribitt]

Oops. One more thing.

You have to be in the air before you turn on the A/P.

ribitt