Want to fly Bush Trips using the world map? want to read the navlog on a 2nd screen instead of the NavLog interface? want to quickly see each waypoint on Google Map or SkyVector? this add-on is for you.
I converted Davide Rosso and Matteo Stevenazzi great bush trip (part 1 to 4) to PDF format for for your leisure reading with permission from the author.
Note: This is just the PDF. To download the Italian Alps Bush Trip itself head over to: Italian Alps Tour 2021
This upload contains 1) PDF, 2) LittleNavMap flight plan, 3) MSFS flight plans for each leg.
The pdf contains a lot of information that can help you familiarize with the trip and each leg:
1. Bush trip description, total distance and ETE. View the trip in google maps driving direction, and in Skyvector.
2. Each leg has a link to skyvector so you can get familiar with the area, similar to how you would prepare for a flight in real life
3. Each leg has a link to google map driving direction. This is another cool way to study a trip. Note: driving directions and flying are not the same, and google cannot draw routes that don't follow roads.
4. Each waypoints has a description, along with heading, distance, altitude, ete. and links to google map and sky vector.
The LittleNavMap flight plan contains:
1. All legs and waypoints
2. Names of waypoints
3. The description of the waypoint under Remarks tab - by default the remarks tab is the last tab. You can drag the column (i make it the 2nd column) to make it easier to see the remarks.
Also in a "legs" folder you will find a .pln file for each leg that you can open from Microsoft Flight Simulator world map.
How can you use this? (this is my preferred way to fly these trips)
1. Open the PDF on a 2nd screen and study the bush trip leg you are about to fly
2. Open Flight Simulator, open the leg pln file from the world map, choose your plane and start flying. If this is not your first leg, use AircraftState to load the fuel remaining.
3. When you reach the destination airport taxi to the gate. Use AircraftState to save the fuel remaining under a name that matches the bush trip and go back to the world map
4. Continue back from step 2 when you are ready for the next leg.
Motivation:
I prefer to fly bush trips from the world map instead of the bush trip interface in order to get ATC, a choice of an airplane, the ability to follow the flight plan in GPS, and to see POI names as I fly. So I looked for ways to extract the text and waypoints to a pdf. I ended up writing a python open source python utility that is available here: https://github.com/mb-dev/msfs-bushtrip-flight-plan which i use to create these uploads.
Let me know if you find it useful and want to get similar pdf descriptions of more bush trips. I also hope this type of conversion process is okay with Microsoft.
More Bush Trips & Discussion
Find list of all bush trips available in PDF in this thread on the official forums
grazie mille
2 years ago
supra01