FSNavigator

[ajb]

I now seem to spend most/nearly all of my flight simming time in FSX these days. The one thing I really miss from FS9 is FSNavigator. I searched around for a replacement and found FSTramp by the same author. Great I thought! But no, it doesn't run in full screen mode and I always do. The only option is P3D but I am not in any position to take on a new sim that I don't know. Maybe in time but not now. I tried FsCommander but couldn't get the hang of that one at all So do any of you guys know of any decent alternative s to FSNavigator?

Andy

[DaveB]

Hi Andy

If there's one thing I miss above all else in FSX, it's FSNavigator. It is without doubt the single best addon I have ever bought by a country mile and nothing I've found since comes close In the end, I plumped for FSCommander but to be honest, I don't really like it. My version is 8.6 and I think that's as far as I'll be going with it. The next incarnation requires money and I'm not prepared to cough up for a newer version of something I don't like!

Plan-G has fair write-ups (http://www.tasoftware.co.uk/) but I've not tried it myself.

Good luck with your quest
ATB
DaveB

[Vancouver]

I would recommend Plan-G it is superb and stable for free BUT I have it on a second monitor as a moving map and FSX (P3D & FS9) runs under a Pseudo full screen. I would not like to run it underneath the sim on a single monitor. That would involve an awful lot of Alt Tab Crash. Another solution I sometimes run it on my wifes laptop networked which relieves some of the pressure on the main sim PC but networking can be a fickle thing.
It is also quite a good if simple flight planner.
I totally agree with Dave re FS Commander, there just something about it that doesn't gel with me, albeit quite a powerful application. It may just be the graphics aspect.
Recently a new version of SimLauncher has been released by Maarten Boelens (check out FlightSim.com) which now has a moving map and a bunch of new stuff included. I'm still tinkering with it but it seems very good and can cope with all three sims.

[ajb]

Hi Dave/Alex,

I totally agree about FsNav. Best addon I ever purchased. I didn't realise just how much I used it until I switched to running FSX more.

I only have the one monitor so other products that require a second to be effective are out of the question. I think I'll have a look at SimLauncher as suggested. I somehow think it will not live up to the standard of FsNav

Hey Ho!
Andy