Installed the latest version 7.6 of the G3000 from WT and tested. Direct to has improved, now you can enter anything except an airport. If you enter an airport no magenta line is drawn and plane does not fly the leg. Set an ILS proc, then guided the plane at the IAF on line with the airport, when I got there, hit approach, but the plane just flew on past. The frozen artificial horizon is fixed. I’m still having problems with RNAV approaches that might not be related to v 7.6. Last night I went to sleep reading the real G3000 pilots manual, and if WT can put all the features in the manual into the mod it will be truly awesome. All in all it’s a slight improvement. Expect more in the future.
Correction, “Direct to” draws magenta line to airports as well. Previous note was my mistake. The magenta line vanishes if you enter a Proc after the Direct, but a magenta line is drawn from the FAF to the runway. It appears that Direct to and Proc don’t connect
I see now 7.6 works well including proc to touch down. It accepts enroute, end, you can activate a wp out of sequence and you’ll be guided accordingly.
Once you do a direct to I believe you lose the flight plan. I’m still figuring out about adding enroute when using direct to.
The main thing for me is they addressed the mfd map freeze 
you can select the first fix of your new procedure, then hit DTO (make sure it’s correctly displayed as part of the flightplan) and activate. This should (!) draw a line to the first fix and then proceed with the flightplan.
My understanding of dto, if you have an existing flight plan with origin, enroute, destination, proc, you can dto to any waypoint along the way including any of the proc points and the and you will create a magenta flight line direct to that wp and the flight plan will disappear.
Even if you don’t have a complete flight plan set up and only have proc with dto to the transition point, it can be changed to any of the waypoints in the existing proc.
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I‘ve never flown a real G3000 but the G1000 (as all Garmin systems I know) lets you choose if you want a new DTO and erase the flightplan or if you want to fly direct to a fix as oart of the FP. I don‘t have much experience with the sim‘s G3000 and would have to have a look, but I don‘t think that the real one deletes it.
I would tend to agree with you on not deleting the fp when choosing dto but not the case with msfs.
Try the 3000…you’ll like it especially the alpha-numeric keypad…very quick to input courses!
Update:
Just finished setting up a test.
Using wt7.6 with aircraft-tbm930-improvement, I selected origin, enroute, destination, approc. While flying A/P to enroute I selected DTO to IAF…guess what, the flight plan stayed on the screen and a magenta line direct to the IAF appeared.
So in the wt7.6 it’s now fixed, you can have both on the screen at the same time.
And no MFD screen freeze
But, if you set DTO to proc waypoint, say IAF, then hit APR, will the plane fly the approach to the runway?
It seems that under specific conditions you can go dto from an already existing flight plan, and select any of the waypoints while keeping the flight plan on screen. I’m not able to duplicate this scenario on demand so I will be doing a bit more testing to figure out under exactly what conditions this works. I’m also thinking that you wouldn’t have under normal conditions both a dto with a flight plan so that may be why a flight plan would disappear once you engage dto…need to do more testing!
But if you have a flight plan already setup all you need to do is select whatever waypoint you want to jump to and activate it.
Update:
It must have been a one-off when I had both dto and fp on the same screen I don’t believe they are made to co-exist at the same time on the screen.
What I just did was to put a flight plan together in the standby flight plan. Then you can choose dto to any wp including proc wps and if you want to change it back to fp then just click standby flight plan to activate.
I don’t engage approach until I’m lined up with the runway anywhere on final up to around 20nm.
Can someone please help me understand how the vertical and horizontal weather radar scope works.
I see on the vertical radar scope an altitude scale with 60,000 feet but I’m not able to gauge what it is relative to my current altitude when I increase and decrease the range.
Im flying the longitude with the FDE mod and WT 7.6 but still getting map freeze! Any suggestions?
Interesting, sorry to hear it!
I had the worst case of map freeze, but it totally disappeared with 7.6…then I added back my modified tmb930 mod and a map mod and it continued to perform flawlessly. Have you tried cleaning out your community folder and only having 7.6?
I’ll take your advice on the comm folder as well as try 7.6 on the modified TBM. Thanks Fit… B
First you add 7.6 alone in the community folder…if all goes well without freezing only then you can add other mods 1 by 1.
Weather radar just lets you know what’s good or bad out front of you, it’s not like finding something specific. I am assuming that the 60k is 60k above your flight level. So at FL200 you are seeing what’s at 80,000 feet, and there’s nothing to worry about up there except a lack of O2. The cloud to worry about is called a cumulonimbus and it’s top can reach about 40,000 feet. In great big ones they can get a bit over 60,000 feet. The highest I’ve seen was about 55,000 feet on radar as we circumnavigated a hurricane in the south Atlantic while flying weather recon in a C 130.
Thanks for your reply.
Specifically what I’m wondering about is how to gauge the altitude of a weather system that is running…say 1/4" above your altitude centre line at a range of 30nm out?
I can guesstimate it…do the dots play into this?
I really can’t answer that. In the sim I have flown through a hurricane that went rather smoothly. In the TBM, in vertical mode, if the stuff is a bit higher I request an increase in altitude. As far as the dots go I don’t know what the scaling is. (Cool trig problem.) Weather in the sim is not as treacherous as in real life. In real life you can hear pilots ahead of you describing their situation, like “moderate chop at 35k, descending to 30k” over someplace, or an intersection. etc.
Yes I estimate the radar’s contact based on a visual of the scope, and some relationship of the dots. I don’t always fly over weather, it’s fun to fly through it sometimes.