ALASTAIR MONK WITH FSNAVIGATOR SIDS MANUAL
ALASTAIR MONK WITH FSNAVIGATOR SIDS SERIES

Or, you can set it to full manual and fly the route yourself, only using FSNavigator merely as a moving map. If you've gone online and kept your SIDs and STARs database up to date, these may well have been incorporated in the plan.There are too many finer points to the package to discuss here, but you can set FSNavigator to full-auto and, if you've got the correct aircraft profile loaded and/or created, you can select 'Fly Flightplan', set the Autopilot, and it will act as a FMC, flying the plane and, if you're lucky, landing it as well.

If not, modify the plan by adding/removing waypoints, Nav beacons etc.

If this meets with your approval, save and prepare for take-off. Ideally, select the runway you want to take off from.2) Select destination and add to plan3) Select 'Create Autoroute', choosing between High Altitude Airways, Low Altitude Airways or VOR-to-VOR.4) FSNavigator will now create a route for you. If you prefer the 'big iron' and want to cruise at 30,000ft following a real-life flight route, you will approach things differently.FSBuild is excellent for the latter, compiling the route and, if you've got it, exporting it to FSNavigator.Either way, here's a '30-second Primer' on creating a plan with FSNavigator:1) Select start airport and insert at the start of the plan.

In defence of FSNavigator, I've never had any problems with it, but then I have been using it for some years.I guess the first question to ask is 'what do you fly ?' If, like me, you prefer GA, and fly a mixture of VFR/IFR (scenic flying) then you'll probably want to compile your own flightplan. If you replace gauge02= in the VC with the following:gauge02=A320!ND, 373,52,268,268//gauge02=A320!ND for VC, 373,52,268,268the 'purple data' will appear ! I don't know whether this will cause any problems, or whether this will cause a drop in frame rates, but, at least on my system, it doesn't immediately crash the sim, which is what I half expected !You don't have any control over the display options as you do in the 2D panel, but it does replicate what is shown in the PFD.Maybe this will be of use to some of you.Best wishes,Alastair

ALASTAIR MONK WITH FSNAVIGATOR SIDS SERIES

The display should change to a series of '-'sEven if you've successfully scanned your new sceneries the NavData 'purple' data may well be a little off, as most of the database is from FS2000, but the above system does work.Good luck !AlastairДЇor those using Eric Marciano's splendid panel for the Project Airbus A320 and have managed to get the NavData utility to work in FS2004 / FS9, you might have noticed that in the VC the 'purple data' doesn't appear in the VC display.I have investigated this and found out why.Looking at the panel.cfg file, this is what you have:file=$mfd.bmp Background_color=0,0,0 size_mm=1024,1024visible=0pixel_size=1024,1024texture=$mfdgauge00=A320!PFD, 47,51,267,248gauge01=A320!PFD, 35,396,287,270gauge02=A320!ND for VC, 373,52,268,268 gauge03=A320!NDFake, 373,396,268,268 gauge04=A320!E/WD for VC, 693,42,304,274gauge05=A320!SD, 690,365,312,233 gauge06=A320!SD Bottom,690,598,312,47 gauge07=FPDA_A320_Callout, 0,0,1,1In other words, a different gauge is being used, I'm guessing to reduce the workload. controls to allow the Flight Computer to control the plane. on the 'dashboard'.If everything is now displaying you can take-off, engage the autopilot + Autothrottle and PULL (not push) the Airspeed, Altitude etc. Here's a routine that should work:1) Create flightplan in FSNavigator2) Export from FSNavigator as a FS2004 flightplan3) Load A3204) Go to FS2004 Flight Planner and load newly created flightplan5) Look on the A320 Pedestal and check that the flightplan waypoints are displaying on the Flight Computer.6) Check in the main cockpit that the right-hand MFD is displaying the flightplan (the right-most option for the left-hand rotary switch.) You may need to increase the range with the right-hand rotary switch.7) Set up the cruise altitude, airspeed course etc.

Alastair monk with fsnavigator sids