My first visit here after lots of folks on Reddit said you were the man around these parts for MSFS content! Thought I already knew these features well until I didn't! Going to experiment with the HSI map now :)
An excellent comprehensive video! Thank you. Started as a simmer and pilot long before glass cockpits so North up for me. I will have to play more with HSI. My real-life Cessna experience was only with a DG. The other thing I noticed in the vein of "what you start with" was airport communication. controlled vs. non-controlled fields. most are more comfortable with what they start with. On the topic of comms. I flew out of BED and live in New England so I created macros that play a live audio feed for COM1. When the COM1 changes if there is a live audio feed within range... you will hear what is going on in real life with a couple seconds delay in your headset. It is very cool and nice to hear during inclement conditions. correct baro settings... etc. Will be back in by November. Could share a Beta version with you if interested.
I’m a north up guy. When flying, or when driving, or even for hiking. Anything that uses a GPS or moving map. I’ve just always felt more comfortable having an immediate, at a glance, representation of which direction I’m heading. I feel like I have better situational awareness. It is immediately obvious if you’re lining up with the wrong runway, or took a wrong turn somewhere. And like you say, it matches every map and chart that you use when planning the trip. And since that’s precisely how I’m internally visualising the trip (moving across a traditional north-up map), it gives me an innate sense of where I am in that end to end trip. “Ah, I’m heading up and a little to the right, I must be in that middle leg of the trip”. And if my trip is generally west to east, for example, I know immediately that if I see my plane flying to the “left” of the map at any point, something is wrong. I just feel like with track up, you lose that innate sense of which way you’re going. If you get disoriented, it requires you to look at the numeric heading and think a bit “310, ok that’s a little north of west…” Track up does have the advantage of allowing you to easily correlate outside terrain with the MFD map, but on a plane with a G1000 like this, synthetic vision on the PFD kind of fulfils this need for me instead. One place I will use track up though is for the little mini map on the PFD when flying low and trying to thread the gaps between terrain. I’ll put the mini map in relative terrain mode, track up, and use it to point myself in a direction that’s not coloured red.
Great video. I searched "north up vs track up" just for the navigation i use on my car. Because all the people i know are using track up but i use north up all the time. I wanted to see if i'm wrong to think north up makes sense. And it does. Thanks for great explanation.
I also searched this exact thing recently! I am used to track up and I want to understand why some one would want to use north up when using their car GPS and all I found was a bunch pilots arguing with each other about this lol.
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My first visit here after lots of folks on Reddit said you were the man around these parts for MSFS content!
Thought I already knew these features well until I didn't! Going to experiment with the HSI map now :)
An excellent comprehensive video! Thank you.
Started as a simmer and pilot long before glass cockpits so North up for me. I will have to play more with HSI. My real-life Cessna experience was only with a DG. The other thing I noticed in the vein of "what you start with" was airport communication. controlled vs. non-controlled fields. most are more comfortable with what they start with.
On the topic of comms. I flew out of BED and live in New England so I created macros that play a live audio feed for COM1. When the COM1 changes if there is a live audio feed within range... you will hear what is going on in real life with a couple seconds delay in your headset. It is very cool and nice to hear during inclement conditions. correct baro settings... etc. Will be back in by November. Could share a Beta version with you if interested.
I’m a north up guy. When flying, or when driving, or even for hiking. Anything that uses a GPS or moving map. I’ve just always felt more comfortable having an immediate, at a glance, representation of which direction I’m heading. I feel like I have better situational awareness. It is immediately obvious if you’re lining up with the wrong runway, or took a wrong turn somewhere.
And like you say, it matches every map and chart that you use when planning the trip. And since that’s precisely how I’m internally visualising the trip (moving across a traditional north-up map), it gives me an innate sense of where I am in that end to end trip. “Ah, I’m heading up and a little to the right, I must be in that middle leg of the trip”. And if my trip is generally west to east, for example, I know immediately that if I see my plane flying to the “left” of the map at any point, something is wrong.
I just feel like with track up, you lose that innate sense of which way you’re going. If you get disoriented, it requires you to look at the numeric heading and think a bit “310, ok that’s a little north of west…” Track up does have the advantage of allowing you to easily correlate outside terrain with the MFD map, but on a plane with a G1000 like this, synthetic vision on the PFD kind of fulfils this need for me instead.
One place I will use track up though is for the little mini map on the PFD when flying low and trying to thread the gaps between terrain. I’ll put the mini map in relative terrain mode, track up, and use it to point myself in a direction that’s not coloured red.
What I was looking for thanks.
Great presentation. Thanks
Great video. I searched "north up vs track up" just for the navigation i use on my car.
Because all the people i know are using track up but i use north up all the time.
I wanted to see if i'm wrong to think north up makes sense. And it does.
Thanks for great explanation.
I also searched this exact thing recently! I am used to track up and I want to understand why some one would want to use north up when using their car GPS and all I found was a bunch pilots arguing with each other about this lol.
Came for the click bait title, stayed for the insights,
I can't believe we did that once manually with an E6B, map and maybe 9 gauges if lucky? This is SO much better!
Definitely north up, I feel lost otherwise as the map was unreadable.
I typically run North Up on the MFD and no map on the PFD.
Thank you. Very good. But the last words on a sentence you reduce to a murmur. And, Please Please talk a little slower
Great explanation! I came to find out how to change heading up to track up as a real world pilot on heavy jets I like track up!😁🛫