I guess I'm late to the party for these videos... but this is the best entry point explanation I have found thus far as new MSFS and flight sim enthusiast.
Navigraph really should reward you with something as this is the best sales speech for the product. Heading now to Navigraph to spend some money! You got yourself new subscriber, superb tutorial!
Nicely done video, I have been a customer for Navigraph for two years and to be honest, I cant see how to enjoy FS without it ......It adds a whole new realism level to the flight and works fine with MSFS 2020, thank you
This video convinced me to try a months subscription and so far it's amazing. The update you can do the MSFS nav data is a big deal, at least now when you work out a plan in navigraph or simbrief it matches properly in the sim. It also adds a nice extra layer of realism to the game, which is cool.
Only came across your channel an hour ago and you've already cost me a Mooney and a Navigraph account ya bastard. Didn't get a Kitfox though... Lol. Seriously great content sir. Thanks.
Much appreciated. I subscribed to Navigraph today and you are absolutely correct; adds an enormous amount to my X-Plane and MSFS 2020 experience. I look forward to learning a lot more from you
This video helped me a lot about low and high routes. But even more to create visual sids and arrivals/approaches. This should be information that should be on the navigraph site! Thanks.
This is so cool, thank you so much for the great videos, I'm learning what I wanted & needed to know fast and with ease, instead of trying to figure out everything alone.
I was considering Foreflight, Simcharts and Navigraph. Only watched the first of your videos and already sold on Navigraph. For the subscription price it sounds like it's just unbeatable.
Thank you so much for this tutorial series! Wow! Now as a newbie to all this you I can get a great understanding of how this all works. Thank you for taking the time to help us become better Sim Pilots. Once again a big heart felt thank you for helping.
Just what I need!! So helpful. My ForeFlight subscription is about to end so I’m switching to navigraph and simbrief. This series will be awesome for learning all about it.
Wow! Incredible series and an outstanding job by you. I am just getting into the flight simulation space having recently experienced MSFS 2020. I need all the help I can get (smile) and I have been looking around for educational series in this space. Your Navigraph series is simply the best one out there that I have seen and it is exactly what I am looking for. I appreciate your time, production, and easy to understand explanation of the Navigraph tool and I look forward to watching your other educational flight sim sessions as well as I know they each will be top notch. Job well done sir and thank you!
@@NOTAM1 Thanks, I will! I'm particularly interested in how Navigraph will eventually tie in with the various systems in the core simulator, like the ATC AI.
Excellent tutorial. Navigraph has changed for the better since my FSX days. The UI can be daunting but your commentary (with the help of the pause button) helped immensely to get me situated again after a 3 year hiatus. BTW, recent change, the ILS 10 is no longer at Trudeau Intl.
It's more much more interesting way of creating flight plan than the in-game method. Especially when all arrivals visible at the same time, so you can choose proper :)
That's really slick how you can see all the approqches/departures and adjust your plan accordingly. Looks like I'm going to be a Navigraph subscriber soon. 😉
Im wayyyy from this level yet (172 AP still trying to kill me in FS2020) but this all makes sense - once I get reliable on basics I'll look forward to getting into this more. What a powerful tool.... Really great presentation and explanation - will definitely check out your info vids - thank you :):)
@@NOTAM1 I would love to have a series that looks at where to do from a basic 152/172 simmer in terms of the next step which seems really lacking which is the middle ground, not the airliners but the large middle chunk of private jets and turbo as well as twin-engine aircraft.
@@NOTAM1 I hear you , I think there is a niche there not the complete basics of flight, that really has been done across all the sims and truth be told you can learn the basics from courses people have done all the way back to FSX and before. So I think and this is only my thought process, as a newbie who is no longer a complete newbie , but wants to take it to the next level and does not necessarily want to go into what is rather abstract as far as flying goes, namely the big passenger birds, I want to know more about the more complex and powerful props. 182 and up, where you have RPM control and cowling!
Awesome, sorry for the miscommunication, hope you enjoy the series. My first few videos were not planned that well and off the cuff a little too much. As the series progresses I started to make point for notes to ensure I don't miss important details that I very much did in my earlier videos.
Excellent video and very helpful. Thanks for putting it together. I am just getting back into flight simming and I have forgotten a lot of things so your video is very timely. Happy New Year from a fellow Canuck!
Not a RL pilot. Used FF in X-Plane for flight planning and iPad integration flying IFR. Flew only in U.S. Would be expensive for whole world coverage. Navigraph will work just fine. Love MSFS 2020. Keep up the good work.
Great introduction to the utility, NOTAM. Definitely subbing to the channel. One question, though: I notice that Navigraph has three separate subscription plans, but I'm unclear what the difference is between them. Can you elaborate on that, or direct me to a video where you've covered that already? Thanks and happy new year!
Once a nice selection of vintage aircraft are available for MSFS I will look forward to some old school flying using charts, IFR, gauges and dials to navigate.
Thanks Lutz, I do see the value in NG but I am also very new to the whole world of training myself to, A. build a full on and good flight sim at home, B. buying hardware that efficiently supports my growing needs, C all at a cost that is reasonable, D, useful purchases that are meaningful and useful, appropriate for a beginner who really wants to fly in real life. I am not sure about my $150.00 purchase of NG as being an efficient and necessary purchase at the point in my training. Especially as thier is limmited support for learning pitols who are focused with VFR to get them selves started. Thanks for the little navmap advice, might have been more suitable for my situation when I started. I wonder in NG would consider holding my annual membership in a pause status until I grew into their service that I bought only a few months ago? Well, its in todays times that I think this, so, no is very likely the answer. Anyways, thank for your time Lutz, keep on flying and stay safe.. Dean
Great video and very informative! Looking forward to going through the rest of the series to begin to develop my IFR simming. You have a very soothing voice also. :)
Calm, clear and concise help with the fascinating world of air navigation. What's not to like? Liked and already subscribed. Nice that you've linked timestamps to the various parts of the video and to other videos in the series. I don't know when you started your channel but you're bound to have a lot more than two thousand subscribers if you keep this up.
@@NOTAM1 I just searched for free alternatives to navigraph and found chartfox.org/ Could be it's worth recommending for those, like me, that aren't keen on monthly subscriptions. Not yet at least.
@@JELB1960 There are a lot of open projects like this... and as a developer myself, I would never talk badly of them. They're all great in their own right, and free is amazing. I'll have a look. In general (not charfox specifically as I don't know) the problem I find with most of these projects is keeping the AIRAC data up to date. If it doesn't match MSFS exactly then it won't work well. I can't speak to chartfox, but this is a large undertaking. Definitely looks like its worth a look for me though, thanks.
Loved the tutorial. I only had one problem as the star and approaches for Montreal (CYUL) have changed and runway 10 is no longer available. However landing on 6L or 6R works great. Using version 7.4.3
First! I love how you explain things! Subbed for when I'll want to know more about ILS flying! Came here for more MSFS integration btw. Excellent work, keep it up!
Just bought Navigraphs purely because of this video mate. I am mad because I have found out over the last few days I definitely need to watch everything you have produced. I hope you're doing well for all the effort you have put in, this looks simple but I know it is not. You are well planned and think about the way you talk and demonstrate! Do you write a bit of a script for these ones or just dot points to cover etc? Thanks again!
Thanks Tom, The first set of reviews were off the cuff, but I realized afterward that I was missing things so as you progress I started creating point form notes. Sometimes if I find myself stumbling over those points or struggling to say it correctly I'll type out a script for that paragraph or set of points so that I can sort of get over that hump. Sometimes its just me struggling for the right words, other times its the Gin :)
@@NOTAM1 Haha. Modern technology makes our job a lot easier. Trying to shoot something in one take is damn near impossible for me. Thanks for the reply mate. Take care.
Thanks so much for producing this series about Navigraph and understanding the information on the charts. I had one question. Could you go over again how I replace the charts that come with MS FS2020 with the Navigraph charts? Thanks so much!! And please keep them coming!!
I just subscribed to Navigraph today and yours is the first tutorial I watched. It was awesome. I do have a question (or 50 lol). I know you know the airports that are in this video, but how do you choose runways on airports you don't know? Also, will you be covering how to find the route you just created when loading into the game? I'm a realllly serious noob here. Sorry. If it's any consolation, you did gain a new sub. lol. Have a great day.
Based on this video I subscribed and am seriously looking into Navigraph. Just one question please. I currently set up a flight plan with STAR in the MCDU, but when I get ATC clearance on approach they invariably give me a different runway than what I planned. So is planning a route with a STAR in Navigraph worth it? How do you get around that? Do you just ignore ATC altogether and not even ask for clearance? I'm just starting out with all this so thank you for your patience and your response.
I have been flying Microsoft Flight Simulator since Flight Simulator 2 by Sublogic on my Atari 800. I have always been a casual flyer, just jump in fly around and look at stuff. I am trying to become a more serious sim pilot and trying to learn the systems of the aircraft. I want to learn ILS, proper flight procedures, how to read carts, etc. My question to you is when would it be the right time to sub to Navigraph? I have a second monitor that I have been running the Flight Sim mobile companion and Fltplan go on my tablet to look at airport charts. I did my very first ground start, and coms with ATC for pushback, taxi instructions, takeoff clearance, request for landing, etc. I am having so much fun learning the sim right now.
Great Tutorial, I am trying to get in to VatSim at the moment and would be good to show a flight from airport A to Airport B and needs to be done during the flight as you go across the areas in between, I am from the UK and I guess the principle is the same? forgot to mention doing GA at the moment not the big birds yet, so I guess would be VFR and not IFR?
This is great. Thanks so much for making this - I"m a relative noob so this will help me loads. You mentioned a short video on importing a Navigraph flight plan into FS2020. Can you perhaps update the description with a link please?
Thank you for your detailed description of the Navigraph chart and flight planning program. I used them several years ago and did start an account with them again following your video. I just purchased the FS2020 and wanted to integrate the Navigraph files into this program. I do not know if I am doing something wrong? However, when I plan a detailed IFR route including departure and approach procedures, the Sid's and Star's do not seem to transfer into the FS2020 program. I only get the departure airport, arrival airport and the waypoints. Have you got any suggestions
I seem to recall reading somewhere where MSFS has not included SIDS and STARS into the sim yet. I could be wrong (I have not tried to use them yet) but that may be why they don't come into MSFS from your saved flight plan. This is one of the issues that bugs me about the new sim in that not everything was fully implemented prior to release.
First of all, excellent video. Extremely helpful to me. Just one main question regarding MS2020. How does what you do here, including exporting the flight plan, interface with the ATC? I have already been frustrated that when taxi instructions are given, the taxiways don't match those on the airport charts. Often, the ones they designate don't even exist. another question (which you may answer in another video) is how do the Navigraph updates get into MS2020 so the charts in the sim are updated? With XPlane, the data manager scanned and found the simulator, but that process does not include MSFS2020. Thanks!
Could you elaborate on the mechanism that will transfer updated Navigraph chart information into my FX2020 data base please - how is it moved over?. Thanks.
But Microsoft and Asobo have promised us that up-to-date navdata/gps data/fmc data/navaids/whatever-you-wanna-call-them and Charts will be provided to us regularly and that's why they formed a partnership with Navblue. They reiterated this during the latest developer question and answer live session on twitch and youtube too. I'll wait and see how far we can get without having to buy Navigraph.
I've heard this before from commentors, but haven't seen yet were the devs promise charts. I'd be very surprised if this were true. I believe they partnered with navblue to provide navaid data based on airac cycle and hi and low enroute charts, but not 10-9's SID/STAR APR etc... If you have a link I'd love to see otherwise.
you're right! i do want it! but not at the price they are charging! lol @ trying to suggest that it is somehow a necessity! are you sure you aren't affiliated with them in some way?? nothing short of ridiculous to suggest it is necessary!
Hello David. A really great video. I’m subscribed! Your presentation was clear, well paced, and very informative. I’m a big advocate of Navigraph myself. What is your background if you don’t mind saying? I’m guessing you’re at least a CFII. Great job. Keep it up!
@@NOTAM1 Sorry you couldn't pursue Military aviation. That's where I started. Also sorry you can no longer hold a medical. I'd have never guessed you hadn't instructed pilots! Glad you're in the hobby. Keep those videos coming!
I'm a Navigraph subscribe and will remain so. However, the Navigraph / msfs 2020 interface is still lacking. I just stumbled across Little Navmaps (free) and found it much easier to plan flights AND the flights come into msfs 2020 pretty much perfectly. You might want to investigate that little gem. Open source and on about every os.
I re-subscribed to Navigraph after watching your video. Very well explained and informative video tutorial David. I agree it's a must have addition which enhances the realism of flight simulation in MSFS. Really need the Navigraph data to get integrated with MSFS though. Have you downloaded the beta yet?
Fantastic presentation. Navigraph seems to provide it all. Your tutorial may well be the trigger. I have one question. I use a second monitor to monitor the PFD and MFD. Can the navigraph displays also be moved to the second or navigation monitor? Thanks for any guidance you may provide.
Hello Sir. Can you give us information on how to install Navigraph and do you have to put it in a particular folder . I had navigraph but moved msfs to a new SSD drive in my pc im not sure if it is communicating with msfs now.
Great training if only it was available. I purchased a subscription but I don’t have the charts or any menus on the left. I only see the map and route. I’ve checked the settings but found no options to enable the view you show. How is that? You start assuming everyone has the view you have so this isn’t helpful to me.
great video but I noticed its really for larger commercial jets using sids and stars. I'm more interested in gps approaches with holding patterns for smaller general aircraft, will it show those approaches?
Great tutorial series. One question how do I get the MSFS 2020 airnav data updated with the latest Navigraph NAV data? Also do I need to do the update every 28 days or is it automatic. Thanks, Steve Parry Sound