An easier method for entering waypoints in a flight plan jut by typing is to open the world map and follow this procedure:
Enter your departure airport and starting position
Enter destination airport
At this point, go to the search box on the world map itself (near the upper lefthand corner) where you can type in waypoints, navaids, etc. These will appear on the map with the option to ADD to you plan.
Hit SAVE/LOAD. Save the flight plan with an “.FLT” extension.
When you are taken back to the world map, click on the yellow FLY box.
Now, when you go to the G1000 in the cockpit and hit the FLP button, all of the waypoints you entered on the world map will be listed.
I’ve had a major issue with waypoints. Whenever you enter a waypoint, if you look closely, the waypoint you are given is NOT the same as the one you pasted in the search bar. Sometimes it’s close enough to find what you’re looking for, and sometimes it’s not. When you’re searching for a mountain, you’ll find it, but when you’re searching for a house, you won’t come anywhere near it. I have included a picture to illustrate this issue. You can see the location that I searched for, in comparison to the location the game gives me, and you can see that they are approximately 24 miles away from each other. That’s a long ■■■■ way. I’m sure there are examples where they are closer and some where they are further. Why can’t the game just allow us to have the exact waypoint we search for, or am I doing something wrong here?
When I enter both coordinates from your screenshot into my google maps, it pretty much shows the same spot, about 3 km west of your Neked circle. It’s not notthing, but certainly these 3 km are nowhere near your 24 miles.
Everything seems to work out just fine. There is no offset, totally not several miles.
nice area btw.
I don’t get why some people are so obsessed with placing custom markers. Simply fly along navigational aids like rivers, roads and mountain valleys and navigate your way to your destination. That is what it’s all about in this sim. If you don’t want to be bothered with stuff like this, simply startup googleearth and enjoy the view instantly there.
He did a screenshot of the area in google maps and then pasted in a cropped view of the MSFS world map search window. Then he drew some red lines claiming some deviation problems. Bottom line is, he messed up somewhere during all this. Can happen. Just don’t focus that much on coordinates. Spawn at the nearest airfield and then fly to your point of interest by observing ground features which according to your map studies will guide you there.
Sorry, but you’re wrong. Here is the exact calculation based on those 2 points. They are 16 nautical miles apart from each other (I was estimating before, but that is the exact measurement). There is no way you can find minor landmarks with that kind of range.
Hey troll, the guy I was replying to was looking for a specific house. If you did this under IMC, IFR, or night flying, yes, you may have done it “wrong”…
You don’t even have to round. It’s a simple conversion. It will leave open some thousand meters maybe. Not more. Not 24 miles, not 16. I have no idea where he has those coordinates from he posted in that last screenshot. I guess he mixed up some numbers during the conversion.
