In-App charts

Features
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This may be requested already, but a feature in the cockpit where you look up an airport and it gives you charts (*in game *) would be cool.

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Do you mean like the airport diagram?

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good idea vote goes to u

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@Eddie_D yes!

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So something like this?

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Wait no, I meant approach charts, sorry

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Sounds cool! Just the thing is how would we get the charts in the first place? We’d need to pay for them somehow, we can’t just make up our own.

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it’s a nice idea but it would take ages to upload every single chart into the game. secondly, the charts which you see used by real life pilots cost a lot of money. Not to sound rude but i dont see the problem with people just looking up the charts on another device…

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It could be an in-game purchase possibly.

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What if IF designed them?

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if IF designed them it would take years. there are hundreds of thousands of charts needed, imagine how much work that would require…

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They could hire people specifically for that job and each update they come out with like 5 new charts

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hmm that would still take ages, also everyone would clog up those airports if they had charts. It would be a waste of time creating charts when you can just find them online for free or just use fpltoif

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So basically this?

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If you want sids/stars just use https://fpltoif.com/ and then after you make a flight plan, add a sid/star and it’ll give you that one. You can also search up charts. Also why would i buy something more? That’s the soul purpose of the subscription model they have.

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I really like the idea of having charts inapp. I am tired of printing out charts to use them.

I as an example don’t have an additional device so i can only follow real-life procedures when i fly to an airport i have charts printed for.

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it’s a fair point as I understand that a lot of people want always have access to two devices (including me)
my main point is that adding in-game charts would just take up loads of space and would take ages to do. Also, IF is missing a lot of waypoints, DME’s etc. so it would be really painful to adapt previous charts every time a new update came out

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You could stream the charts like scenery or download them on a cache and delete them after the flight

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🤔that could possibly work actually. I’m not rly a tech guy but that actually sounds slightly possible

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Then why not implement the free charts into the game?