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Congrats! - I gotta say it does look awesome. Regarding Plan-G - I give it a try yesterday and I gotta say that it is a WONDERFUL tool. I am amazed it is free - well donationware.

I saw somewhere on the forums that EFASS had some limited support lately. Do you know if both are supported now?

Thanks a lot for taking the time for such a detailed response and the references! My first round with flight simulation was in 1998/99 with Sierra Propilot. Back then they would ship it with a 200 page manual that covered all aspects of flight, incl. air navigation. So the website you referred me to feels like home - and the principles haven't changed much either . My current focus is on VFR with Cessna 206, slowly adding night, basic IFR approaches, etc. So probably Plan-G is the best fit for now. EFASS/PFPX look impressive so I would keep them in mind once I'm advanced enough. At least I finally understand how the nav data is organized and why it is different. By the way, did you try simbrief? It's for larger planes but looks great! Thanks again.

Thanks PinkJackal and eMko! I guess if I wanted to use real data from sites like Skyvector/Fltplan I would need to have the most up to date cycle from navigraph. I might do so in the future, but in the meantime I don't mind flying HDG 181 instead of HDG 179. What I do care about is being able to do a reliable Flight Planning, which is quite difficult when XPlane and available tools look at different data sets! So how do people do Flight Planning in XPlane? I deliberetaly avoid GPS navigation at this point as I want to master a more basic approach with VORs/NDBs/Visual. Needless to say that XPlane's own local map does not provide enough details for an accurate plan. I did find Plan-G - which is AWESOME as it reads XPlane data. Brilliant! Are there other tools that do not require updating AIRACs? Thanks again!

Hi, I'm fairly new to XPlane - flying for about a month now. However I noticed some strange behavior in the area of navigation. At least I cannot understand what is going on. For some reason I'm having a real difficulty to track a VOR. When I intercept a radial and fly the corresponding HDG the CDI shifts nevertheless, to quite a considerable deviation. One way to mitigate is to fly a HDG which is a couple of degrees off. For example to track radial 286 I need to fly HDG 283. Does anyone know what could be the reason for that? Another problem I saw - there is some radial mismatch between the X-Plane VOR radials and HDG info from sites like Skyvector. I know that X-Plane does not have the most up to date data. On the other hand neither does Skyvector, so how do you navigate? I'm flying in CAVOK conditions, no wind, so weather is not an issue. I'm also using AP so nothing to do with my beginner flying skills Really appreciate your help. Thanks!