On a related note, Foreflight integrates really well with MSFS and when you combine that with PilotEdge it's a great learning tool. Works with Prepar and X-Plane too.

Yes, perfect for IFR and procedure training. The lack of control loading / feedback in home simulators makes it not a great choice for primary training. I've had to teach some simulator enthusiasts in real aircraft for primary training, there is a lot to unlearn. Especially in terms of trimming, fine gained control and looking outside.

But for IFR training if you already know how it fly it's amazing what home sims can do. Add in Navigraph to get up to date data / procedures and Jeppesen charts and you get a better real world representation than some of the certified simulators used in flight training.

Love fs2020 and navigraph. Just not sure about the flight path calculator.

Question for you both. I’m using ForeFlight in sim and real. Does Navigraph replace FF in sim or supplement it? Visited their site and it’s not immediately clear. Thanks.

Navigraph runs on the computer with the sim on it, while you can use ForeFlight on your ipad (or phone) next to the sim while connecting to it for position data.

That's brilliant! It took me a few minutes to understand what I was looking at... realtime data, hooked into a flight sim, live streamed.

It seems like there's of potential for synthetic displays like this in other areas or industries - the buzzword du jour being "digital twin" but that's more for simulation, maybe this is more augmented reality? But you need a really solid set of incoming data to make it happen. The openness of ADS-B is the huge advantage here.

Thats so cool

Really like airplane flying in.