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Good morning everyone!! I have a pretty simple question: is it possible to fly the Piper Cub, with the default Garmin GPS? I am now taking on line lessons for the IVAO VFR examination, and I am currently flying the default Cessna. For my flight planning I use Plan-G, through which I set my reference waypoints on the map, and then I load them into the default GPS Garmin of FSX. Is it possible to do the same thing if I fly the Piper Cub, that is pull up the default GPS from FSX?
I am also considering buying some of the ORBX sceneries, and would love to fly over them with the Cub, again with the support of the GPS. Looking forward to your replies, take care everyone,

Enrico

I have heard that it can be done. But for what you are looking for it sounds like the cubs moving map would do the job just fine when you upload that plan into the GPS it really just uploads into FSX so any moving map (GPS) the aircraft has will show it. If you are dead set though on having the GPS then I will let someone else explain how to put that in because I have never done it.

Thanks for replying; I am asking about the GPS because that way I can set the autopilot to navigate via the GPS. That's how I am flying VFR through areas I am not familiar with...edit: the Piper does not have a autopilot, my mistake....

OK, no problem if you want it I do believe it is possible to use the default autopilot in the cub, but like that GPS I have never done it and am unfamiliar with how one would do it.

To use the default autopilot in the cub all ya have to do is modify the aircraft.cfg file to enablethe autopilot function as follows

[autopilot]
autopilot_available=1 //0 change the "0" to "1"
flight_director_available=0
autothrottle_available=0
default_pitch_mode=2
default_bank_mode=1
flight_director_available = 0
default_vertical_speed = 200

Then add the gps gauge to the panel.cfg as follows:

1...Add this at the top just after the Window08=dbg entry:
Window09=GPS

2...Add this just below the [Window08] entry

[Window09]
size_mm=456,378
window_size=0.5
position=8
BACKGROUND_COLOR=0,0,0
VISIBLE=0
ident=GPS_PANEL

gauge00=fs9gps!gps_500, 0,0


I haven't done this with the cub but use it quite often as a fallback for planes with no gps. Someitmes the heading function can act a little odd, so be careful.

Hope this helps.

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