When you start Moving Map, an icon will appear in the task tray. If you right click on this icon a popup menu will appear. From this menu you can get version information, minimise and maximise the Moving Map window, restore the window after you have minimised it, reset the window size back to default, and exit the program. If you double click on the icon, it will restore your Moving Map window.

If you right click along the top of the Moving Map display, you will get the same menu as if you right clicked on the icon in the task bar. The menu options are itemised in the previous paragraph.

To move the Moving Map display, click and drag anywhere along the top part of the Moving Map display.

Remember you can hide and show the Moving Map display by pressing CTRL+SPACE.

At the bottom right hand side of the Moving Map dispay are 3 lines of numbers. The first line is the number of nautical miles across and down that is currently being displayed. The second line is HALF the number of nautical miles across and down that is currently being displayed. The reason for this second line is to just help you with distance calculations. Your aircraft is in the middle of the display, so the distance between your aircraft and the edge of the display is half the distance of the display width or height. The third number is the area of nautical miles currently being displayed. This figure is simply the width of the display in nautical miles multiplied by the height of the display in nautical miles.

As of version 1.2, you can now display how far away a selected object is in nautical miles (DTO), the heading you need to fly to get there (BRG) and the amount of time it will take to get there (ETE).

The Hotkey to put the Moving Map into Keyboard mode is SHIFT+ SPACE. Pressing the Shift+Space bar will toggle the hotkey mode. If the "KBD" indicator is lit down the left hand side, you know you are in keyboard mode. When in keyboard mode, certain keystrokes will have no effect in flight simulator or any other program for that matter. When in keyboard mode, you can fully control the moving map without affecting your flight. That is, Flight Simulator will remain with the focus, even though Moving Map is being manipulated. This is my preferred way of controlling the Moving Map rather than with the mouse.

When creating a scenery set with the Moving Map Tool, the directory search routine will search for files ending in BGL or MMP. If you have created your own navaids, or if you are exporting data in MMP format, MAKE SURE THE FILENAME ENDS IN MMP, otherwise the search routine will not even look at it.

The size and position of the Moving Map window is stored in the MMAP.INI file located in the same directory as Moving Map. If you ever get really really stuck, or things are not doing what they are meant to (what, a bug?) then try renaming or deleting this file. The size and position of the Moving Map display is saved when you exit Moving Map. Separate settings are kept for each different screen resolution you may have. Not sure if this is useful, but there you go...

The two graphs (Altitude Over Time and Airspeed Over Time) can be zoomed by drawing a rectangle with the left mouse button over the area you wish to zoom in on. To reset the zoom level, draw a rectangle with the left mouse button, but draw it from bottom right to top left (try it, you will see what I mean). To scroll the map, hold down the right mouse button and move it around. The map can be scrolled in any direction and by any amount.

The GRID indicator when lit displays latitude/longitude lines over the surface of the map. You will probably have to zoom out quite a bit before you start seeing them.

To get more information on any navaid, click on it. A display will appear along the bottom left of the Moving Map display. Click the navaid again to clear the display.

If you popup the menu and select "About" you may be wondering how to close this window. It is easy, just click anywhere in the window.

You can toggle path plotting on and off but if you reset your flight for example, the old path can still be seen. This is intentional as you may want to practise navigation or circuit training. To remove the old path(s) you will need to load the scenery set again.

If you stop and start Flight Simulator while Moving Map is running, you will have to restart Moving Map as well.

Future Versions:
I aim to continually improve this product. I believe it has a lot of potential and is well worth the investment of time. As a registered user, you are entitled to any and all upgrades at no extra cost. Some ideas I have for future versions include customisable colours and hotkeys, more features and graphs, weather radar etc...

I am always open to suggestions. Without your help, I cannot continue to improve this product.