I will be in Belize today on my world tour in a TBM930. I would like to take a side trip out to the Great Blue Hole that is something like 43 miles off the coast in the Caribbean. (I assume it is visible in the simulator.)
I use the MSFS flight planning in the world map. I have attempted to enter coordinates in the search before and it does not work. Is there a way, within the MSFS or the plane to give me navigation there?
In the “Select Airports” page, in the Search field, enter Latitude, Longitude in decimal format, like so :
-36.841979523655944,-73.0456014993604
Will put you at +/- 1500 feet airborn over that place.
Greetings
plot a course and distance from real life VOR, tune to that VOR ingame and fly that course
For some sights I hunt them out in google maps, grab the long/lat and then create a user point in LittleNavMap. Then plot a route to it within LNM
That worked perfect. I was probably using the wrong format when I tried before. It was well worth the side trip from Belize City.
I learned something else new too. When I took the drone down for a closer view, I could hear waves splashing. Nice touch.
The Search function also accepts coordinates in this form
55°55’56.5"N 130°17’28.2"W
However it doesn’t like extra spaces, the way the game stores them in .pln files…
N59° 20’ 4.00",W107° 10’ 55.00" no go, remove the spaces
Or what I usually do is have little navmap open, put a waypoint there on the map and steer the little plane towards it with the heading bug. There might be a way to enter gps coordinates in the G1000, or there should be a way (it’s gps!), but I haven’t found it.
You’re right SvenZ and that is also the kind of coords Wikipedia uses… When I started to use coords more often, I always google places and click Wikipedia. There are specialized websites for this, but they won’t find some things. Go Yellowstone Park ? You won’t find ONE set of coords for it (the place is big) but if you pick a village name somewhere IN Yellowstone park and click to Wiki… and it tells you also nice things near… and where they are…
The easiest way is: go to google maps click on location you are looking for and copy the coordinates to search box in the sim.
I usually google the location (google maps), then zoom in where I want to go. Click on the map and a pop up shows up on the bottom, click on the coordinates and you can copy paste them from the left pane in either format.
For example, I googled yellowstone, zoomed in on old faithful
44°27’37.4"N 110°49’40.9"W
44.460392, -110.828034
