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Hiya, I was wondering.
Maybe I haven't played with the new GPS enough but is there a way to "track" your flight on the GPS. I remember in FS2002 your aircraft would leave a little red line behind it. I liked this because sometimes when I fly GA, I like to just take off and fly aimlessly around taking in the sights. By seeing the red line, I could just follow it back or just intercept it on my return.
If there is a way to do this on the new GPS, could somebody explain the procedure?
Thanks allot!

Dave

Thanks Gary.
Yes, I know that in map view it will show the red line but map view does not support real time flying. I will try to do what you said. So what you say is that the FS9 GPS by default does not offer the "red line" in the GPS?
Does anybody else miss this and/or has anybody else done the modification that Gary spoke of?

Dave

When you first install FS2004 it will not show the flight path When I get home I will send you a copy of my fs9cfg file to show you what I did.It also does not show waypoints. But this also can be changed.

Thanks Gary. My email is davetue@aol.com

I appreciate it!

Dave

umm, yes, yes it does show waypoints. not only does it show them on the screen, but if you hit FPL it will bring up a list of the waypoints. as for the little yellow line that used to be in fs2002, yea thats gone by default. also, does anyone know if theres anywhere on the GPS that gives you the ETE overall, not just to your next waypoint? i really miss that too.

What model does the GPS in flightsim 9 simulate?  I can't remember off hand...  anyway, if you like the little line to show how to get back from where you came, just use the direct-to function.  Go to nearest page find the nearest thing you want, hit direct-to, enter, enter.

And while on the topic of GPS, it'd be cool if you could load in your flight plan through it like you can in real life, rather than going through the whole flight planning thing.  Maybe in the next sflightsim.

FS9 simulates the Garmin GPS 500 (big GPS found in jets and modern aircraft), and the Garmin GPS 295 (smaller portable model found in older classic aircraft)