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Hello.

I got a few questions which I hope will be answered... yeah.

First, how do you navigate in the 747? I'm used to a solid pink line showing my route in the 737, but there's nothing in the 747, and I don't wanna use the normal GPS (the one activated with SHIFT + 3).

And second, in the 737, 747 and the A321, how do you easily tell your distance to the destination?

For navigation you can use VORs find your way in the air. I'm not sure what the "solid pink line" you reffered to is, but for the VOR basically, first you plot a flight plan using the Flight Planner. Make it a IFR flight with either high altitude or low altitude flight plan, NOT DIRECT. Then when it gives you the map of your flight you can see that the "turns" of you flight all happen at or near a VOR or other navigational tool (NDBs, etc...). You can click on the waypoints to get the fequency to tune your Nav 1 standby radio to. Then after you take off swith the freqency you programmed into the radio stack from "standby" to "transmit(i believe its transmit?)" You then need to use the HSI to navigate to that waypoint. Once you reach the first one you program the second waypoints freq. into the NAV 1 radio and continue on your way. But, i find the GPS ALOT easier than what I metioned above. [glow=yellow,2,300]remeber, Autopilot is your best friend.[/glow]

For your other question, in the GPS it will tell you your distance from your next waypoint in one of the corners. I don't know of anyway to find out your distance from your destination other than doing some math. Take your average airspeed and multiple by the hours you've been flying, then subtract that from the total miles in your trip. Hope that helps.