To get the most out of your flight plans, you’ll need to understand a few things about Microsoft Flight Simulator. Below is a overview of options and considerations for creating a flight plan. Once you’ve opened MSFS you’ll have a number of options at the Main Menu such as Activities, Featured Activity and the World…
MSFS Bush Trip Flight Plan
Navigating Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 Bush Trips can be a challenge. You can always use the Nav Log bearings and ETEs to navigate the route, but if you want to sight-see the compass and stopwatch can be a burden.
You can use the VFR Map, but it doesn’t show town or street names and the elevations are difficult to read. The Nav Log gives descriptions, but often they use road numbers and town names as landmarks which again, the VFR map doesn’t show.
Wouldn’t it be nice to have Google maps in the cockpit with you? Flightplan is a Google Maps flight planning add-on for use with Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020. You can use Cockpit Map to take Google Maps in the cockpit with you to use real time terrain elevations, road maps, landmarks, satellite views and street view 3D imagery. Flightplan can also be used to create and share your own flight plans using an interactive drag-and-drop, Google Maps interface.
Download Flightplan and try it yourself – the link is at the bottom of the page.
You can also download and fly any of our free flight plans using the Download Link at the top. Load them in MSFS World Map and you are ready to fly.
For more information see the topics below or check out our YouTube channel or FAQ page.
Happy Flying!
How to use Google Maps in Cockpit
You can use Flightplans Cockpit Map to take Google Maps in the cockpit with you in Microsoft Flight Simulator. You can open any MSFS flight plan and follow your progress on the flight path or just use the Google Map to create a route on-the-fly. Check out the video below for an overview of Cockpit…
How To Create an MSFS Landing Practice
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…
How To Create A Flight Plan in MSFS
There are several ways to copy and save flight plans to create a new flight plan (Check out the videos on our YouTube channel link below). There is not currently a specific New button in Flightplan to create a file from scratch. The primary reason for this is that the values that define the aircraft,…
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 To Create A Bush Trip
You can use Flightplan to create multi-leg flights that mimick the in game Bush Trips in Microsoft Flight Simulator. Flightplan creates Free Flight type flight plans that can be flown in sequence by simply loading the next consecutive flight plan after landing. The https://simflightplan.com/series/pacific-nw/ Pacific Northwest Series is an example of this. See the YouTube…
How To Create A Landing Practice
You can practice challenging approaches from the MSFS 2020 Bush Trips in Flight Plan. Just copy the Bush Trip to a Free Flight, then delete the waypoints you don’t want. You can use the contour lines on the map to determine your runway elevation if you aren’t certain of it. You can also review the…
Cockpit Map Features
Cockpit Map can be used in place of Microsoft Flight Simulator’s Nav Map. Cockpit Map displays the loaded flight plan along with the current position of your aircraft over the Google map. When launched, Cockpit map will appear at the top right 1/3 of the primary display. It can be moved or resized to whatever…
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…
How do I save the aircraft settings I want to start with?
While Flightplan allows you to change the aircraft name for any flight, there are many settings that may not be correct from one aircraft to another. Typically, changing from a “more complex” aircraft to a “less complex” aircraft (for example from an A320neo to a Cessna Skyhawk) will not have any noticable change when loading…