CIVA INS system

[Panagiotis Zervoulias]

Yeah my friend you' re right. It' s the best INS addon out there. And as you said it' s a freeware one. However you forgot to mention that this system was installed on Concordes also. A very good addon for someone who wants to make some practise on the duties of past pilots!

[Harold Henderson]

You can also buy and use the Flight 1 Super 80 (not the PRO). It has INS, too, for horizontal flight management and a separate PMS system for vertical.

[Panagiotis Zervoulias]

Yes Harold. You' re right. I own this addon for about 4 or 3 years now. It has a very good old-fashioned navigation system but it has a problem. As far as I know you can not enter waypoints by yourself. You must create a flight plan with the default FS planner, save it (naming the plan file in another way) and then load the super80. The novigation system of super80 then loads the flight plan you' ve created. It' s a bit more complicated I would say.

[Norberto Rivera]

I've never really tried to sit down and figure out that system. I have some Aerosim aircraft that come with an INS and I did complete one short flight with one of those. I got to the airport I was aiming for so I guess I did it right. One day I'll figure out the CIVA.

[Panagiotis Zervoulias]

Norberto it's not very difficult. It has a lot of fun too. Once you get used to that "INS" then you'll see that it's worth the try.

[Michael Blakely]

Matt,

Thanks for highlighting the CIVA INS. I've been using it for years and it gives me even more stuff to do in the cockpit on my long haul flights. I added it to my concorde, my Ready for Pushback 747-200, my 707, and my DC-10.

[Harold Henderson]

Yes Harold. You' re right. I own this addon for about 4 or 3 years now. It has a very good old-fashioned navigation system but it has a problem. As far as I know you can not enter waypoints by yourself. You must create a flight plan with the default FS planner, save it (naming the plan file in another way) and then load the super80. The novigation system of super80 then loads the flight plan you' ve created. It' s a bit more complicated I would say.

I'm almost certain you can enter the flight plan from scratch into the Super 80, waypoint lat/long by lat/long, very painfully - or build the flight plan outside the Super 80 and import as you say. I've never built an entire plan this way, but I have made some pretty heavy manual modifications and waypoint adds/deletes to flight plans using the Super 80 INS.

[Robert Shepherd]

Yes Harold. You' re right. I own this addon for about 4 or 3 years now. It has a very good old-fashioned navigation system but it has a problem. As far as I know you can not enter waypoints by yourself. You must create a flight plan with the default FS planner, save it (naming the plan file in another way) and then load the super80. The novigation system of super80 then loads the flight plan you' ve created. It' s a bit more complicated I would say.

I'm almost certain you can enter the flight plan from scratch into the Super 80, waypoint lat/long by lat/long, very painfully - or build the flight plan outside the Super 80 and import as you say. I've never built an entire plan this way, but I have made some pretty heavy manual modifications and waypoint adds/deletes to flight plans using the Super 80 INS.

Yep, I second that... I have had the Coolsky Super 80 Classic for 4 years now as well and I have manually adjusted flight plans in the INS. I have to admit that each time, it takes me a minute to figure out what buttons to press to get the configuration correct, but you can do it. I'm sure if I flew it every time I would be better at it - It is a fairly complicated system if you're not used to it.

[Michael Blakely]

I have a great tool that I use to get my flight plans loaded into the CIVA INS. It's the same tool used by real word pilots.

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It's kind of slow though.