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I decided to look at what others have experienced with Perfect Flight's Discovery Flights on Youtube. Here, for example, is Froogle and his tour of Mount Everest: So, even the mighty Froogle doesn't know how to get more info than just the names of the Points of Interest. Surely there should be a way of popping up an info bubble and/or playing audio when one approaches a POI. Sort of like in Bushtalk Radio: https://bushtalkradio.com/

Hi again, Michael. I tried the London Discovery Flight again with the Nav Log open. Still none of the advertised/promised text or speech. I'm quite disappointed, unable to contact Perfect Flight for help. Thanks for the explanation.

Thank you, Michael. I don't even know what "Navlog" is, so that's probably my problem 😀 . I'll look it up and give it a try. Thanks again.

Has anybody here tried "Beautiful World" from developer Perfect Flight (https://www.fs2000.org/)?I tried the London tour in the Diamond DA40. All of the promised POI icons are there, but I didn't get any descriptive text or speech. There is no documentation with the Beautiful World download, so I may have to change something in my MSFS setup. I did contact the FS2000 support email, but no answer.Can anybody help?Thanks!

This one is great fun. Lots of interesting ways to string waypoints together, like visiting a specific street address starting from a nearby airport.Can be used as a moving map with 2 different backgrounds.It is a work-in-progress, and includes a user manual and a videohttps://sites.google.com/site/fredm/...rams#h.p_ID_92

Here it is: https://www.msfsaddons.org/freeware/plugin-vfrmap It links to the sim via SimConnect and displays your aircraft on a moving map. I've installed it, and it's great. You can see VFRMap in action here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKVW5sElGVM&t=109s

Yeah, I read that on the download page. But I haven't noticed any effect running FSTramp on my mid-rangee system.

FSTramp (fstramp.com) has been updated and works well with MSFS2020.

@ivatt: Another free solution is FltPlan Go on iPad or Android:

@ivatt: If you want to see the moving map on a separate screen rather than on your laptop screen, may I suggest the free Avare app on an inexpensive Android phone or tablet? https://apps4av.com

@janbergwall01: Thank you for the heads-up on FS-Flight Control. I have installed it (trial version) and connected it to my X-Plane installation. But how do I now connect it to my FSX installation on the same PC?

@ckelly14: Maybe you could give an example of some waypoints you can see in the GPS that you can't find on the corresponding Sectional or Airway map. I would have thought if it's not on SkyVector, it doesn't exist :-)

A couple of things that work well for me: http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/files/file/25569-external-moving-map/ This is a Java utility that runs a web server that just broadcasts X-Plane's coordinates on your local network and displays your plane's position and track on Google maps. You can view it on the X-Plane PC or on any tablet (Android or iOS). Brilliant. Then, there's Avare: https://apps4av.com This is a complete real-world (and sim-world) flight-bag app for free. Receives coordinates from X-Plane and displays on sectionals, etc. Set up flight plan with a few taps. Airport info and diagrams, and lots more. Brilliant.

Thank you, @wb5okj and @Murmur. With your help I have installed St-Mathieu, St-Hubert and Pierre Elliot Trudeau, as well as Montréal Landmarks. More to come as I make my way through the Montérégie collection of seven more local airports!

I'm new to X-Plane 11 on Steam, and I'd appreciate your help. In FSX, all I had to do to get local airports and scenery looking real was to install UTX or ORBX, as well as a few (mostly freeware) airport packages. Having switched to X-Plane 11, I'm doing a lot of reading and Youtube watching, but I'm still confused. Two concrete examples of local airports: CYHU St-Hubert is there, but it's just a runway and apron - there's not even a tower. CSB3 St-Mathieu de Beloeil is missing completely. Both of these airports are well documented in Open StreetMaps. I have installed HD Mesh V3, so the roads around my local area look OK, but the landclass has farmland where there should be towns. But for now, I'd just like to get the airports looking better. I know there are lots of X-Plane resources available. But what would be my best place to start in order to get my local airports looking real? Thank you for any suggestions.