Vulcan navigation.

Has anyone else noticed the same problem, Re the vulcan, Its great to get airborne and can reach a good altitude, but due to lack of any GPS once up there I have absolutely no idea where I am or how to find my way back to a military base to land the thing, short of coming down to low level and using my old road atlas to get a rough idea its an almost impossible task, unless of course one has a degree in air navigation. anyone got any ideas how to solve this problem. I am running the aircraft in FS2004.

You could probably add GPS but not really in keeping with the aircraft.  However, I can tell you how it could be achieved if you wish.  Failing that I know of a live map you can use, it does more than just mere mapping but pointless to describe it until we find out what you want.  Both ideas have to be added to the aircraft files, but are free.

I do not have the aircraft so I cannot test either idea.  Having said this, even my working blind I think theirs a good chance of something working out for you.

Reider

I found they added GPS later in some aircraft in real life.  Here goes for an implant.....  First go to the aircraft panel folder, then make a backup copy of the panel.cfg and place it somewhere safe.  You can create a backup folder inside the panel folder if you wish and place a copy in there.  Then open the original panel.cfg using Notepad.

Look at the start of the file and you`ll see a bit that has [Window titles] in it.  Numbered Window00 - whatever tha last one ends with, lets say 10 for example.  So to manually add a command we start from 11, or 08 if the last one was 7 etc......

Window11=GPS

is what you add, or change 11 (in red) to whatever number is next in the list when incremented by 1.

Next look at the list of actual Windows, till you reach Window 10 or whatever is the last one.  Then paste this in, changing the number to suit (in red);

[Window11]
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

You can change the number to whatever you used in the first change, the bit that calls the GPS.  Theres only a slim possibility you could get the aircraft to automatically follow the GPS.  To try this you would need to add a radio in a similar way to the GPS above.  You would also need a NAV/GPS switch, to do this cheat and use the control settings to allocate this feature to a key.  I use the key to the left of the number 1 on the upper number set of the keyboard.

Place this after the GPS call you added at first, change the number (in red) to suit.

window12=Radio Stack

Place this after the GPS routine you added, changing the number to suit (in red).

[Window12]
size_mm=159,441
position=8
visible=0
BACKGROUND_COLOR=16,16,16
ident=RADIO_STACK_PANEL

gauge00=737-400!Comm 1,         0,   0,159, 68
gauge01=737-400!Comm 2,         0,  68,159, 68
gauge02=737-400!Nav 1,             0, 135,159, 68
gauge03=737-400!Nav 2,             0, 203,159, 68
gauge04=737-400!Transponder,     0, 271,159, 68
gauge05=737-400!ADF,             0, 340,159, 68
gauge06=737-400!Audio,             0, 409,159, 32

Its very dog rough but should help, even if you can only view the GPS and see where you are.

Reider

Hi,

I had the same problem with this aircraft, however I found the best way to navigate was to enter a VOR to VOR flight plan make sure you enter the VOR into the Nav 1 radio and the auto pilot will take you there or follow the heading showing on the TACAN indicator, the TACON stations are not modeled in FS therefore the instument uses VOR signals recived in the Nav 1
radio.

This will get you to the airfield you are flying too if not you will not be far away.

Its not ideal but it is better than nothing.

Tony