Thank you for an excellent tutorial. Picked up some nice tips and will revisit every so often. What a cool program, one of the real gems. I love it and use it on my laptop while I fly on FSX on my desktop. Can't believe its free!
Thank you for this video, Mr. Gatcomb. Could you please make another one for the elderly and dummies like me? Because I am old, I had a hard time keeping up your pace. What is of particular interest to me is where you create and import the flight plan into Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020. A step-by-step tutorial would really help me finally be able to figure out this difficult task. Sincerely, Richard Howard
Maybe you could help me, Pat! I now can manage great flight plans, but can't get them into FS2020. I use the default destination to FS, which is deep in my Users/Appdata directories. I checked the path in Little Navmap, and then went to my Files and verified that the .PLN file was there. But when I click on Load in the sim, it looks only for .FLT files, and so doesn't even allow me to choose the .PLN file. I notice (@ 10:30) that you click on Load and the directory is right there. Why do you think that when I click on the Load button, it asks me for a .FLT file?
That's weird because MSFS uses .pln as standard flight plan files. Try to do that: create a flight plan in MSFS, save it and sign down (copy and paste) the default folder where your MSFS saves the flight plans, and mostly, verify that MSFS saves the flight plans in .pln.
@@AntonioFardella Crazy, but when I went back and wrote a new plan and saved it, it finally did deposit a .PLN file where it was supposed to. I'm getting ready right now to fly the Citation from KABE to KDFW...will let you know what happened.
@@AntonioFardella Well, it didn't work. The plan loads into FS, shows on the Globe map, with all waypoints...everything checks out, until I click om FLY! Aircraft opens up, jump in and fire up the panels and "No Flightplan!" Posted this up on the FS forums, too. Seems like others have the same problem,
@@gpbarth Weird... I have never had this problem.... I have some issues only when in MSFS there is departure/destination airport (it happens in those teeny tiny airstrips).
Mr. P. Just a thought. I think that MSFS does not read the starting position when you set the parking spot as starting point. MSFS reads the flight plan but puts the plane always at the beginning of the runaway. Did you check btw this "mishap"? Thanks, as always.
Along with Scooter, I found the solution. When you select your parking spot in Little Navmap, remember it. When you get to FS2020, you will be on the active - just click and change your starting point to the same one as Little Navmap, and you're good to go!
After flying the DC6, Airliners are so easy! HAH! But this LNM is so amazing that I can actually make quite precise approaches even at airports with no Nav Aids or Precision Approach equipment! Just with GPS and LNM and it's all set! We create our own pseudo ILS!
Excellent video, thank you!. Do you or anyone else here enable the Approach export options as they are missing in the .PLN file? Or does the ApproachTypeFP set to LOCALISER suffice when approaching the airport? My main problem is that LNM does not export the altitudes and speeds in the flight plan, so with AP on my LNAV is fine, but my VNAV stays at the cruise altitude. My elevation profile looks good, i've calculated the flight plan accordingly. To recreate: fly from EGCC to EGBB on a 747 as a test, I know its a short flight but man this should work. Thanks in advance :)
Good video, but I echo some of the sentiments about speed (pace). Most people I'm guessing want to follow along on their computer, but that's near impossible - at least for me - even when slowing it down during playback. I use LNM to plan my simple routes, but knowing how to execute them is the problem. A lot of these videos stop right at the point I'm screaming, okay, what comes next. But, keep it simple, with a simple aircraft at first. Taking this video to the next step (for beginner's like me), I would suggest using a smaller plane. One with say, a Garmin1000, and illustrate and explain the steps the pilot needs to take in order execute the flight plan after it has been importing from LNM. Nothing fancy, no procedures, just what is logically done on the tarmac with the AP, what steps occur after take-off, and how to use either NAV, or GPS and set to execute the FP with various altitudes, speeds, etc on route that will change according to the FP. Start with something really elementary start airport, destination , and a couple way points. I'm trying to conquer this AP and navigation stuff, but nothing ever seems to work the same way twice. While some of these videos provide a start, they don't seem to conclude with what often comes next in the sequence of operations. Thanks so much for your video, I've watched a few and you present a ton of information that's is very useful. I take it Pat you're in the northest? I fly some of the same airports. Close to Danbury?
BTW. Anyone want a nicely bound Little Navmap User Guide? It's 316 pages done in color and GBC bound. I have an extra one willing to be sent to the first respondent for a few $$ including postage. First come first serve. Please reply here with email address for contact. Paypal only.
Is there ANY way to get a decent (read: good) VFR map in FS2020`? (as tablet or such). I only have ONE screen and cant follow the map on second one. It could be a mod for Navmap or just something else (that shows the path you should fly, airports, maybe height of terrain etc etc). Cant stand that default VFR crap map.
FS will not pick it up automatically. You just save it to any convenient folder you want. In FS2020, you will load it manually by picking it up in this folder as you can browse your HDD.
You always make me laugh :) Soooo, so Little Navman can be used for Radio 📻 only, didn’t you say ? I’d like to plan for DC6, fly old fashioned without GPS.
A couple of things I found and noticed even when you did it. 1. It doesn’t set you at the parking spot you set.....if you pick a different spot like you did it breaks the flight plan.......But if you pick the same parking spot that you picked in LNav Map it works fine. 2. The wind is always wrong in FS planning use the wind in LNav Map just before the flight and when FS loads to start the wind corrects itself. The wind never matches even if you don’t use LNav Map.....when sim loads it isn’t the same as wind in planning. By the way FS will give you 20-30 knot tail wind departures and landings booooo. I’m using real weather. But LNav Map does have the correct wind. Hey guys be sure you consider giving the LNav Map a donation it’s so much info during inflight at you fingertips all Frequencies and WX. I donated.
If you set up any departures or pick your runway in the In Game using the weather that is shown and you start the flight and the actual real weather is injected the wind is sometimes much different and the ATC gives you the runway you selected and most of the time it’s tail winds instead of having the intelligence of giving you the correct runway. I’d suggest checking the Actual Weather from sites and Nav Map before planning the departures and not picking the Approach until prior to Decent after checking Nav Map WX or outside sources. ATC does pretty good on giving you the correct runway for Approach unless you’ve already selected it in the Flight planning stage and confirming weather. But weather can change on longer flights so I’d do it in Prior to Descending.
I cannot see the flight route to copy from on the flight aware website...is this because i did not subscribe or active user in their website...or is it not free...?
Hi, thanks for the videos, very nice, not the first video from you I'm watching but man you talk too fast and you go too fast. Slow down my friend, slow down. About the flight plan, I know how to set a departure gate, but I'm still trying to figure out how to set a destination gate. I'm able to do that into the sim flight planner but can't acheive that in Navmap. Are you able to do it yourself ? You covered this part so fast, I'm unable to understand what you did.
Too fast! Fortunately, TH-cam let's usvslow the video down to .75x, which allows it to be followed more easily by a beginner (except in a few places that remain incomprehensible to a viewer without fairly deep familiarty with LMN). So there are some pedagogical deficiencies here, but, hey, it's free and therefore much appreciated. What I wanted was to find out if creating a FP and exporting it to MFS was not only possible but fairly painless. I was shown that it is, so I got out of the video exactly what I was after. Four stars!
Had a million questions about IFR and little navmap and this video answered all of them. Thank you!
Thank you for an excellent tutorial. Picked up some nice tips and will revisit every so often. What a cool program, one of the real gems. I love it and use it on my laptop while I fly on FSX on my desktop. Can't believe its free!
Very well done tutorial. Bravo Gat, bravo.
Thank you for this video, Mr. Gatcomb. Could you please make another one for the elderly and dummies like me? Because I am old, I had a hard time keeping up your pace. What is of particular interest to me is where you create and import the flight plan into Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020. A step-by-step tutorial would really help me finally be able to figure out this difficult task. Sincerely, Richard Howard
You sir, are born to teach. Thanks to you, an old dumbass like me can really enjoy FS2020. Stay safe 😊
Great Video. Thanks
Nice and illuminating..... as always!!
Great video! How did you remove that animation when hovering a button in the sim? Thanks!
Maybe you could help me, Pat! I now can manage great flight plans, but can't get them into FS2020. I use the default destination to FS, which is deep in my Users/Appdata directories. I checked the path in Little Navmap, and then went to my Files and verified that the .PLN file was there. But when I click on Load in the sim, it looks only for .FLT files, and so doesn't even allow me to choose the .PLN file. I notice (@ 10:30) that you click on Load and the directory is right there. Why do you think that when I click on the Load button, it asks me for a .FLT file?
That's weird because MSFS uses .pln as standard flight plan files. Try to do that: create a flight plan in MSFS, save it and sign down (copy and paste) the default folder where your MSFS saves the flight plans, and mostly, verify that MSFS saves the flight plans in .pln.
@@AntonioFardella Crazy, but when I went back and wrote a new plan and saved it, it finally did deposit a .PLN file where it was supposed to. I'm getting ready right now to fly the Citation from KABE to KDFW...will let you know what happened.
@@gpbarth good... Happy to help. And Philip is a good friend of mine. Let me know.
Ciao.
@@AntonioFardella Well, it didn't work. The plan loads into FS, shows on the Globe map, with all waypoints...everything checks out, until I click om FLY! Aircraft opens up, jump in and fire up the panels and "No Flightplan!" Posted this up on the FS forums, too. Seems like others have the same problem,
@@gpbarth Weird... I have never had this problem.... I have some issues only when in MSFS there is departure/destination airport (it happens in those teeny tiny airstrips).
Mr. P. Just a thought. I think that MSFS does not read the starting position when you set the parking spot as starting point.
MSFS reads the flight plan but puts the plane always at the beginning of the runaway.
Did you check btw this "mishap"?
Thanks, as always.
Along with Scooter, I found the solution. When you select your parking spot in Little Navmap, remember it. When you get to FS2020, you will be on the active - just click and change your starting point to the same one as Little Navmap, and you're good to go!
After flying the DC6, Airliners are so easy! HAH! But this LNM is so amazing that I can actually make quite precise approaches even at airports with no Nav Aids or Precision Approach equipment! Just with GPS and LNM and it's all set! We create our own pseudo ILS!
Awesome Video! Is there a trick to loading FLT PLN in A-310?
Thanks!
Excellent video, thank you!. Do you or anyone else here enable the Approach export options as they are missing in the .PLN file? Or does the ApproachTypeFP set to LOCALISER suffice when approaching the airport?
My main problem is that LNM does not export the altitudes and speeds in the flight plan, so with AP on my LNAV is fine, but my VNAV stays at the cruise altitude. My elevation profile looks good, i've calculated the flight plan accordingly. To recreate: fly from EGCC to EGBB on a 747 as a test, I know its a short flight but man this should work. Thanks in advance :)
Pat, have you done a video on VNAV?
Good video, but I echo some of the sentiments about speed (pace). Most people I'm guessing want to follow along on their computer, but that's near impossible - at least for me - even when slowing it down during playback. I use LNM to plan my simple routes, but knowing how to execute them is the problem. A lot of these videos stop right at the point I'm screaming, okay, what comes next. But, keep it simple, with a simple aircraft at first.
Taking this video to the next step (for beginner's like me), I would suggest using a smaller plane. One with say, a Garmin1000, and illustrate and explain the steps the pilot needs to take in order execute the flight plan after it has been importing from LNM. Nothing fancy, no procedures, just what is logically done on the tarmac with the AP, what steps occur after take-off, and how to use either NAV, or GPS and set to execute the FP with various altitudes, speeds, etc on route that will change according to the FP. Start with something really elementary start airport, destination , and a couple way points. I'm trying to conquer this AP and navigation stuff, but nothing ever seems to work the same way twice. While some of these videos provide a start, they don't seem to conclude with what often comes next in the sequence of operations.
Thanks so much for your video, I've watched a few and you present a ton of information that's is very useful. I take it Pat you're in the northest? I fly some of the same airports. Close to Danbury?
BTW. Anyone want a nicely bound Little Navmap User Guide? It's 316 pages done in color and GBC bound. I have an extra one willing to be sent to the first respondent for a few $$ including postage. First come first serve. Please reply here with email address for contact. Paypal only.
Thanks for the explanation.
Is the AIRAC of this software is aligned to the version from MSFS?
ny idea how to insert a NATS route ? I see the NATS option beeing checked (Track source) but I fail to dsiplayx them and insert them in a oceanic FPL
Is there ANY way to get a decent (read: good) VFR map in FS2020`? (as tablet or such). I only have ONE screen and cant follow the map on second one. It could be a mod for Navmap or just something else (that shows the path you should fly, airports, maybe height of terrain etc etc). Cant stand that default VFR crap map.
Right click and left click at same time to select gate as starting point
So where do you save the flight plan to be picked up in simulator. The pathway?
FS will not pick it up automatically.
You just save it to any convenient folder you want. In FS2020, you will load it manually by picking it up in this folder as you can browse your HDD.
Ok very good. I found a folder in a Community folder.
How did you get the gates and parking spots to show up at the airport to select a starting point? 2:52 for reference
Hey, I tried to follow what he said but I cannot click on a parking spot to add to the flight plan. Did you find an answer?
Right click and left click at same time
@@1160wILlArD Right click and left click at same time to select gate as starting point
You always make me laugh :) Soooo, so Little Navman can be used for Radio 📻 only, didn’t you say ? I’d like to plan for DC6, fly old fashioned without GPS.
A couple of things I found and noticed even when you did it. 1. It doesn’t set you at the parking spot you set.....if you pick a different spot like you did it breaks the flight plan.......But if you pick the same parking spot that you picked in LNav Map it works fine. 2. The wind is always wrong in FS planning use the wind in LNav Map just before the flight and when FS loads to start the wind corrects itself. The wind never matches even if you don’t use LNav Map.....when sim loads it isn’t the same as wind in planning. By the way FS will give you 20-30 knot tail wind departures and landings booooo. I’m using real weather. But LNav Map does have the correct wind. Hey guys be sure you consider giving the LNav Map a donation it’s so much info during inflight at you fingertips all Frequencies and WX. I donated.
Just curious what did you mean by the 30 knot tail wind and landing? Is that by setting from lnav map or in game? Is it fixable?
If you set up any departures or pick your runway in the In Game using the weather that is shown and you start the flight and the actual real weather is injected the wind is sometimes much different and the ATC gives you the runway you selected and most of the time it’s tail winds instead of having the intelligence of giving you the correct runway. I’d suggest checking the Actual Weather from sites and Nav Map before planning the departures and not picking the Approach until prior to Decent after checking Nav Map WX or outside sources. ATC does pretty good on giving you the correct runway for Approach unless you’ve already selected it in the Flight planning stage and confirming weather. But weather can change on longer flights so I’d do it in Prior to Descending.
LNM, how do you determine what altitude to put in, particularly if it were a VFR flight
Down to personal prefrence.
What aircraft is that?
I cannot see the flight route to copy from on the flight aware website...is this because i did not subscribe or active user in their website...or is it not free...?
sounds like your running to catch a bus.......what uppers are you using.....just walked away
Started watching and very interesting but couldn’t keep up … way too fast so had to switch off sorry
0.75 speed works
way too fast! Slow down so your tutorials are helpful, man!! Slow down! Sheesh!!!
Indeed... I learned something, but it was not easy to follow his shatter. He even says it a few times, "I got carried away a bit" 😆
Hi, thanks for the videos, very nice, not the first video from you I'm watching but man you talk too fast and you go too fast. Slow down my friend, slow down. About the flight plan, I know how to set a departure gate, but I'm still trying to figure out how to set a destination gate. I'm able to do that into the sim flight planner but can't acheive that in Navmap. Are you able to do it yourself ? You covered this part so fast, I'm unable to understand what you did.
Too fast! Fortunately, TH-cam let's usvslow the video down to .75x, which allows it to be followed more easily by a beginner (except in a few places that remain incomprehensible to a viewer without fairly deep familiarty with LMN). So there are some pedagogical deficiencies here, but, hey, it's free and therefore much appreciated. What I wanted was to find out if creating a FP and exporting it to MFS was not only possible but fairly painless. I was shown that it is, so I got out of the video exactly what I was after. Four stars!
You go way too fast.
change speed in youtube to 0.5 x
yes, talk slowly
This guy is going so fast, his demonstration is useless.
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