With Simflightplan™ for Flight Simulator, you can take Google Maps in the cockpit with you. Simflightplan™ 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…
MSFS Bush Trip Flight Plan
Simflightplan™ is a Google Maps flight planning add-on for use with Microsoft Flight Simulator. 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.
Download Simflightplan™ 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 below, or click the Downloads link at the top to search all downloads. Load them in MSFS World Map and you are ready to fly. For more information see the FAQ page or our YouTube channel.
Navigating Microsoft Flight Simulator Bush Trips can be a challenge. You can 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. Wouldn’t it be nice to have Google maps in the cockpit with you?
Happy Flying!
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…