Wow, this is an amazingly rich collection of resources and tips for one video! I happened to know about most of them already but you also taught me some useful tricks as your Little NavMap vids have also done. Also a bit of memory lane for me with KEMT and C152. When I was working on my PPL in C152 in 2000-2001 in Massachusetts, I used to go to my company’s home office in Pasadena every 6 weeks or so. In the winter the flying weather was better in LA than in Worcester so I did some training flights out of El Monte (now San Gabriel Valley) and KCNO. I did my night cross country from Chino to Palm Springs. I haven’t flown as a pilot since 2013 but MSFS is helping me revisit some of the joy of flying (and simulated travel during COVID). Thanks for the excellent videos. Your voiceover work is great too. Weren’t you on KROQ back in the day? :) (I lived in the Pasadena area in the 80’s).
Thanks for the great comments Bruce! Sadly I have a health condition that precludes my ability to fly so MSFS is a wonderful alternative. KCNO has some great war birds stationed there. But the old moped of the skies will always hold a special place in my heart. I am very pleased my videos have been able to give you a little bit of heretofore unknown info and help! The portions of this video that talk about the FAA publications is targeted at non-pilots that want to take their sim experience up a notch. Happy new year!
For my very first flight in MSFS 2020, I took off from KORD and overflew the former Meigs Field in a Cessna 172. It was my way of saying "we've come a long way, baby!" Thanks for all your great recommendations. I especially appreciate your tip that Alt+Enter toggles in and out of full-screen - I couldn't find how to do that anywhere else! Thanks again!
i remember how i landed a 747 on that airfield. The engines at idle speed and glide it in with full flaps and once landed then hit the brakes and thrust reversers on.
Hi, love your videos. Informative and helpful. Thanks for the link to the vfr map. I’ve been wanting an osm type map that works in VR, brilliant. Keep it up.
Fantastic Miegs, I’m getting me that one. Yes every sim start up it was mandatory to do the usual roll through the goal sticks on top of that building, still don’t know what it’s called.
Chicago could have turned Meigs into an airport like Toronto's city center airport.. encouraging more regional flights and visitors to the city. But the park is real nice for residents.
Hi! Do you have any suggestions for a map that also show you VOR, ILS and NDB frequencies??? Something that even remotely resembles the old FSNavigator for FS2002? I didn't like its successor FSTramp for FSX, does it work in MSFS?
Great video and reccomendations worth a go. Question how do you manipulate camera to go inside of terminals. I'm playing in HP Reverb G2 WMR VR Headset.
Hi BG, Happy New Year to you and your Family. Another great video, Thank you, One question if I may, I just downloaded MCA and tried to get it to work on my Ipad as you show it, but it does not want to come up, is it possible that my computers are hard wired and my Ipad is connected to Wi-Fi? There is no Wi-Fi on my PC that it can't find each other? My Ipad Version is IOS 9.3.5. could it be to old? Thank you for your time.
Happy New Year Andrew! It should work with your ipad. You can also check it on your PC in a browser on that device and it should work the same as well.
@@badGamr Thank you for your response, mine shows up as 100.120.180.160:4000 , I also tried 192.168.180.1.60:4000 but no luck either. it is frustrating as it is so nice to be able to have that on the Ipad. Its the same with Little Nav, Ipad wont take it either , that is why I thought maybe it is to old.
I found fspm a little disappointing. To start with, it starts in the top right part of the screen, and you can't move it. One user found a work around by changing your assistance settings. It uses openstreetmap but doesn't allow you to change to the satellite view. Also it doesn't show your route or waypoints when your flying nav. The only good thing, it it let's you zoom out far.
For me it is super useful that I can teleport. That's all I use it for really. I always have LittleNavMap up on my second monitor and that is my main mapping/planning app. I did not experience the issue that you did where you could not move it. I will let the developer know.
Amazing update, keep the good work. Quick question i was unable to to run MCA - Mobile Companion App on my iPad or iPhone even putting with my IP. its work very well with my desktop. Any suggestion why is not showing on my iPhone or iPad?
@@cjqazi6537 Not sure when Asobo will get to that. Lots of folks clamoring for it though. There is a paid 3rd part extension in the works that should be available later this month tho. th-cam.com/video/Fpb-IntaIHk/w-d-xo.html
Great video... However, I especially like the voice! :D If you're not selling that voice then the world is short of a great potential voice actor/narator ;)
If you have the resources I would highly highly highly recommend you pick up the Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge and the Airplane Flying Handbook. These are two of the books that are used as resources to teach flight training, and if you want to get into flying or simming, you'll love them. Also, definitely get the AIM since it's free - the FAR/AIM is the pilot's Bible.
Hi badGamr! I'm the developer of the MSFS Mobile Companion App. Thanks for sharing the app on your channel! I've noticed that the NAV and COM tabs looks a bit off on your iPad. Could you please tell me which iPad you use? I'd like to fix the HTML layout so it looks cleaner. Unfortunately, I don't own any Apple device so debugging and testing is pretty limited. Thanks a lot! Martin
Love your MCA app! I use the original first gen iPad Air running the current version of iOS. I also had an issue where I was using the map and the bar at the top with the buttons vanished and I had to restart the app on the PC to get it to recover. No amount of refreshing the browser would get it to work.
@@badGamr Thanks for the feedback! I'll have a look at emulating the iPad Air on my PC so I can come up with a fix. I'll let you know once I have something ready. Regarding the map bug: I honestly have no idea what that could have been. Let me know if it happens again. It'll be best to make a screenshot if possible.
@@badGamr I'm just letting you know that I've updated the MSFS Mobile Companion App. The latest version includes dedicated autopilot controls for the A320/A32NX and improved UI especially for iOS devices. This should fix the UI glitches you were seeing. You can download it for free here: flightsim.to/file/2828/msfs-mobile-companion-app I'd love to hear from you if the UI has improved on your iPad.
There is also a mod that places Little Navmap on the top sim menu and display a small map on the screen. github.com/bymaximus/msfs2020-toolbar-little-nav-map Click the GREEN CODE button then download the zip.
Not at all. That is some integral calculus related to the bernoulli effect in aeronautics. Useful if you are designing an aircraft but necessary to being a fully qualified pilot :)
Happy New Year badGamr. Thank you for your tireless efforts alerting the sim community to these great add-ons.
Thanks, you too xtek!
I think the FSPM vfr map will be very useful, can't believe I never knew about it, thanks
I love it! It's very useful! Happy New Year Metal Moss!
Great video, as usual! Having flown MSFS since V1 way back when 640x480 was hi-res I simply HAD to get the pro version of Meigs Field!
You and me both! Glad you liked the video! Happy New Year!
Excellent resources and scenery. Didn’t know about the Meigs Field pay version. Thanks for another outstanding review!
Thanks for watching! Happy new year Jim!
Wow, this is an amazingly rich collection of resources and tips for one video! I happened to know about most of them already but you also taught me some useful tricks as your Little NavMap vids have also done. Also a bit of memory lane for me with KEMT and C152. When I was working on my PPL in C152 in 2000-2001 in Massachusetts, I used to go to my company’s home office in Pasadena every 6 weeks or so. In the winter the flying weather was better in LA than in Worcester so I did some training flights out of El Monte (now San Gabriel Valley) and KCNO. I did my night cross country from Chino to Palm Springs. I haven’t flown as a pilot since 2013 but MSFS is helping me revisit some of the joy of flying (and simulated travel during COVID). Thanks for the excellent videos. Your voiceover work is great too. Weren’t you on KROQ back in the day? :) (I lived in the Pasadena area in the 80’s).
Thanks for the great comments Bruce! Sadly I have a health condition that precludes my ability to fly so MSFS is a wonderful alternative. KCNO has some great war birds stationed there. But the old moped of the skies will always hold a special place in my heart. I am very pleased my videos have been able to give you a little bit of heretofore unknown info and help! The portions of this video that talk about the FAA publications is targeted at non-pilots that want to take their sim experience up a notch.
Happy new year!
For my very first flight in MSFS 2020, I took off from KORD and overflew the former Meigs Field in a Cessna 172. It was my way of saying "we've come a long way, baby!" Thanks for all your great recommendations. I especially appreciate your tip that Alt+Enter toggles in and out of full-screen - I couldn't find how to do that anywhere else! Thanks again!
Glad it helped, Michael! Fly safe!
i remember how i landed a 747 on that airfield. The engines at idle speed and glide it in with full flaps and once landed then hit the brakes and thrust reversers on.
I tried to land a 747 at KSZP in FS2020. It ended badly LOL.
Hey BG - yet another truly useful video Sir. Hope you had a good Christmas and a happy new year to you and your family!
Thanks so much John! Happy New Year to you and yours!
have a great New Year... Got to get the fantastic Miegs Airport...Great Video ...take care.
Thanks, you too!
Great video and very helpful. Thanks and have subscribed. 👍
Thanks SO much Bob!
Good stuff badGamr, Always love watching your videos
Thanks Steven! Happy New Year to you and yours!
Excellent video and thanks for sharing.
My pleasure! Glad you liked it!
Hi, love your videos. Informative and helpful. Thanks for the link to the vfr map. I’ve been wanting an osm type map that works in VR, brilliant.
Keep it up.
Thanks Robert! Glad you liked it!
Excellent presentation with very useful content, thanks for providing us simmers with great content
Thanks so much for the kind comments Ken!
Great instructions video. I wish I get those addons soon. Thank you for your effort
Thanks so much!
Fantastic Miegs, I’m getting me that one.
Yes every sim start up it was mandatory to do the usual roll through the goal sticks on top of that building, still don’t know what it’s called.
Guillermo did such a great job with it!
in FSX it was a island airport off of Washington state area by Seattle i think
@@daxconnell7661 When FSX was released in 2006 Meigs Field had been gone for 3 years by then so they moved the default airport to Seattle.
thank you for sharing this, the game looks great, and happy new year
Happy New Year and thanks for watching GG!
Your video are very informative and well describeb.Keep the good work.Thank you and happy new one
Happy New Year Denis! Thanks so much for the kind comments!
This is what i call a really interesting video.
Thanks a lot!!
Thanks for watching Erik! Happy New Year!
Thanks for the info on KCGX! Bought it this morning..
You're welcome! Such a great implementation of Meigs!
Meiggs field so many memories of my first years in simulators....... actually so many crashes
I feel like I learned to fly at Meigs :)
Hi, happy new year, looking forward to more great video's. thank you
Happy new year Bravo!
+1 badGamr - Very helpful, especially with all the links, thanks and *_Happy New Year!_*
Happy New Year Jimbo!
Happy New and thank you so much for sharing.
Happy New Year Ian!
this looks like the moving map feature I have been waiting for, thanks!
Hope you like it!
Moving map new to me, grabbing it now. Happy New Year!
Glad it was helpful! Happy New Year Matt!
What they did to Meigs was criminal. Ripping up the runway at night with no warning.
It was the very definition of political corruption.
Chicago could have turned Meigs into an airport like Toronto's city center airport.. encouraging more regional flights and visitors to the city. But the park is real nice for residents.
@@davidringo4672 It's too bad they had to do it in the middle of the night without asking anyone tho.
Hi!
Do you have any suggestions for a map that also show you VOR, ILS and NDB frequencies??? Something that even remotely resembles the old FSNavigator for FS2002?
I didn't like its successor FSTramp for FSX, does it work in MSFS?
I recommend LittlenavMap. I talk about it in my other addon video here: th-cam.com/video/9ZVVPCdDagU/w-d-xo.html
Xplane11 still has the airport there, though no buildings but it’s still there
Good to know!
Happy New Year ,, thank you
Happy new year!
Thanks that fspm looks good!
It's a great mod and a great time saver! Happy New Year Steve!
The FSPM looks excellent. I hate flying around a strange location without knowing where I am on the ground.
It's a great addon!
Awesome tips, thanks!
Glad it was helpful!
Great video and reccomendations worth a go. Question how do you manipulate camera to go inside of terminals. I'm playing in HP Reverb G2 WMR VR Headset.
Thanks for the kind comments! The drone camera will pass through geometry.
Great video, thanks.
Thanks Paul!
Hi BG, Happy New Year to you and your Family. Another great video, Thank you, One question if I may, I just downloaded MCA and tried to get it to work on my Ipad as you show it, but it does not want to come up, is it possible that my computers are hard wired and my Ipad is connected to Wi-Fi? There is no Wi-Fi on my PC that it can't find each other? My Ipad Version is IOS 9.3.5. could it be to old? Thank you for your time.
Happy New Year Andrew! It should work with your ipad. You can also check it on your PC in a browser on that device and it should work the same as well.
@@badGamr Thank you for your response, mine shows up as 100.120.180.160:4000 , I also tried 192.168.180.1.60:4000 but no luck either. it is frustrating as it is so nice to be able to have that on the Ipad. Its the same with Little Nav, Ipad wont take it either , that is why I thought maybe it is to old.
Am I required to download something on my Ipad to connect to the sim?
@@andrewstraatsma3136 No. You only need a browser on the iPad. Nothing else.
@@badGamr I use Google chrome just like on my PC's. will keep playing with it see. Thank you.
I found fspm a little disappointing. To start with, it starts in the top right part of the screen, and you can't move it. One user found a work around by changing your assistance settings. It uses openstreetmap but doesn't allow you to change to the satellite view. Also it doesn't show your route or waypoints when your flying nav. The only good thing, it it let's you zoom out far.
For me it is super useful that I can teleport. That's all I use it for really. I always have LittleNavMap up on my second monitor and that is my main mapping/planning app. I did not experience the issue that you did where you could not move it. I will let the developer know.
Thank you; I enjoyed it
You're most welcome!
Amazing update, keep the good work. Quick question i was unable to to run MCA - Mobile Companion App on my iPad or iPhone even putting with my IP. its work very well with my desktop. Any suggestion why is not showing on my iPhone or iPad?
If you have 2 network cards in your PC that might be the issue. Some folks have indicated that it fails in that scenario.
Thanks, also any luck on instant replay function on MSFS 2020?
@@cjqazi6537 Not sure when Asobo will get to that. Lots of folks clamoring for it though. There is a paid 3rd part extension in the works that should be available later this month tho.
th-cam.com/video/Fpb-IntaIHk/w-d-xo.html
Great video... However, I especially like the voice! :D If you're not selling that voice then the world is short of a great potential voice actor/narator ;)
Thanks so much for the kind comments Dave!
Asobo really needs to hire this guy!!!!!
LOL Thanks Steven!
If you have the resources I would highly highly highly recommend you pick up the Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge and the Airplane Flying Handbook. These are two of the books that are used as resources to teach flight training, and if you want to get into flying or simming, you'll love them. Also, definitely get the AIM since it's free - the FAR/AIM is the pilot's Bible.
In the description of the video you will find links to free copies of all three of those books.
@@badGamr you're doing a great service to the community!
Hi badGamr! I'm the developer of the MSFS Mobile Companion App. Thanks for sharing the app on your channel! I've noticed that the NAV and COM tabs looks a bit off on your iPad. Could you please tell me which iPad you use? I'd like to fix the HTML layout so it looks cleaner. Unfortunately, I don't own any Apple device so debugging and testing is pretty limited. Thanks a lot! Martin
Love your MCA app! I use the original first gen iPad Air running the current version of iOS. I also had an issue where I was using the map and the bar at the top with the buttons vanished and I had to restart the app on the PC to get it to recover. No amount of refreshing the browser would get it to work.
@@badGamr Thanks for the feedback! I'll have a look at emulating the iPad Air on my PC so I can come up with a fix. I'll let you know once I have something ready.
Regarding the map bug: I honestly have no idea what that could have been. Let me know if it happens again. It'll be best to make a screenshot if possible.
@@martinracko6148 Will do. I am happy to test any changes you need. Just let me know.
@@badGamr I'm just letting you know that I've updated the MSFS Mobile Companion App. The latest version includes dedicated autopilot controls for the A320/A32NX and improved UI especially for iOS devices. This should fix the UI glitches you were seeing. You can download it for free here: flightsim.to/file/2828/msfs-mobile-companion-app
I'd love to hear from you if the UI has improved on your iPad.
Great voice.. You should do radio ;-)
Thanks so much Wilson!
Why wasn't Google maps used for the sim?
Because Microsoft competes with Google with their Bing product so they used Bing instead.
@@badGamr Thanks mate
Is it just me or does this guy sound like Pacha from Emperor's new Groove
John Goodman voiced Pacha :)
There is also a mod that places Little Navmap on the top sim menu and display a small map on the screen. github.com/bymaximus/msfs2020-toolbar-little-nav-map
Click the GREEN CODE button then download the zip.
Awesome! Thanks for this, DrMcKee!
It's not called FS2020. It has never been called 2020 other than social media.
TH-cam is social media
Was that math part of the learning material? Yikes, that was never a favourite subject. lol
Not at all. That is some integral calculus related to the bernoulli effect in aeronautics. Useful if you are designing an aircraft but necessary to being a fully qualified pilot :)