Using Flightplan, you can easily create a planned approach for any airport (or glacier, lake, etc.). Using the Lap Timer, Cockpit Map will record your progress along the flight path, but only if you are under the assigned altitude. The video shows examples at Sedona and Castillion. The key to creating an accurate landing practice…
Cockpit Map
Flightplan is a Google Maps flight planning add-on for use with Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020. Cockpit Map allows you to use Google Maps real time in flight. You can use Flightplans drag-and-drop interface to create a flight plan anywhere on earth. You can then load and fly it in MSFS 2020 World Map and Cockpit Map will follow you into the cockpit so you can view the real time Google Maps terrain, road map, satellite views and street view 3D imagery as you fly.
How do I use Google Maps in MSFS?
With Flightplan for Flight Simulator, you can take Google Maps in the cockpit with you. Flightplans Cockpit Map allows you to see the real-time google map beneath you as you fly. Just like on your phone, Google Maps will display road names, place names, landmarks, street views and 3D photogrammetry as you fly. You can…
How do I use the Cockpit Map Lap Timer
Cockpit Map has a built in Lap Timer you can use to record lap times if you want to race with your friends, or simply as a hands-free stop watch to use in Bush Trips or free flights. The Lap Timer records your progress as you pass within a given distance from each waypoint. The…
How can I quickly convert elevations from meters to feet in MSFS 2020?
You can drop a pin anywhere and enter the desired altitude using either Meters (M) or Feet (FT) and when the Pin is added to the map it will be converted to your flight plan unit of measure. So if you are used to flying using Imperial units of measure (feet) but the local elevations…
How To Use Satellite View During Taxi
You can use the Satellite view of Cockpit Map to assist with navigating complicated taxiways. Simply turn on GPS Follow mode, set your Zoom level so that you can read the taxiway and runway markings (if the airport is clearly marked) and select Satellite as your Map. You can then follow the ATC taxi route…
Isn’t it cheating to use Cockpit Map in a Bush Trip?
Well yes, from a navigation perspective the point of Bush Trips is to use the Nav Log and VFR to navigate the route. Although some of the Nav Log descriptions are vague and hard to follow on a number of built-in Bush Trips so it can be difficult to find the landmarks mentioned (even if…
Why does my map keep changing zoom level?
There are 2 sets of zoom controls in Flightplan. The Map Options section in the lower right of the main window contains the default zoom level (and other settings) that the map will revert to when the map is recentered. The map recenters anytime a waypoint is selected in the grid or a pushpin clicked…