INTRODUCTION:
Welcome to the Moving Map instrument for Microsoft Flight Simulator 95 and 98. The Moving Map is an instrument which is designed to sit on top of your existing instrument panel (or anywhere you want really) and display navigation information as you fly. It will display VOR, NDB, ILS, OMI, RWY and Airport information as well as Indicated Airspeed, True Airspeed, Heading, Wind Direction and Wind Speed information. The display is constantly updated, for example, when you are approaching an airport, the airport symbol and associated information on the Moving Map will get closer and closer.
 

FEATURES:
Here is a list of some of the main features of Moving Map...

• Reads your existing scenery files. No need to manually add the information you want to see. Moving Map will read scenery files (BGL) that are in FS95 and FS98 formats. The best thing about this is whatever scenery you may have is actually what is seen by the Moving Map.

 
• Completely resizable and moveable display. Change the size and position of the Moving Map instrument to suit your specific setup. Objects and Navaids are automatically scaled to the new size. Settings are automatically saved so next time you will not have to move and resize everything again.

 
• Ability to run Moving Map from a second computer. You can have the Moving Map instrument running on a second computer if you wish. This means you could have a full screen Moving Map being displayed on a second computer while your flight simulator is running as normal on the primary computer. No need to network the two computers, all you need is a null modem serial cable, available from any electronics store.

• VOR, NDB, ILS, RWY, OMI and Airport information is displayed in different colours so you can quickly see at a glance what kind of navaid you are looking at. The ID of the navaid is displayed along with additional information such as altitude or frequency. Toggle the display to show any combination of waypoints.

• Comes with the Moving Map Tool which allows utility type functions such as allowing you to create your own waypoints for inclusion in your scenery sets. Also allows export of your scenery sets in several popular formats including formats for some of the popular freeware/shareware GPS addons available for Flight Simulator 95/98.

• Includes dynamic graphing of "Altitude Over Time" and "Airspeed Over Time". You can view and monitor this information in graphical format as it occurs. You could even have this information as the main display rather than the map, would be especially interesting during landing procedures. Graphs can be fully scrolled in any direction.

• Get more information about any of the displayed navaids by clicking on it. For example, click on an airport and you will get Name, Altitude, ID and Frequency.

• Zoom in as close as one-tenth of a nautical mile or Zoom out to infinity. (Perhaps this is overkill!)

• All Moving Map functions are accessable using either the mouse or keyboard.

• Customisable display, for example, no need to display VOR and NDB information if all you are interested in are the airports around where you are flying. You can also hide the Moving Map display completely if you only want to look at it occassionally.

• Does NOT affect Flight Simulator frame rate or performance. One of the key priorities when developing this application was to ensure system performance would not be affected. All critical functions of Moving Map are run under separate threads and optimised for low system impact.

• Does NOT require any external VBX, OCX or DLL files. All files you need to run Moving Map are located in the one directory so installation or removal (I hope not) is a very simple process. OK, there is one external file but I will tell you about that later.

• Will co-exist with other Flight Simulator addons, so you can keep running all your favourite utilities at the same time as running Moving Map.

INSTALLATION
Installing Moving Map is a very simple process. This is why there is no installation program to run. Apart from the fact that an installation program is not required in this instance, they are generally quite large and can add another layer of complexity to the process if things do not quite go as planned. Also, if you are like me, you like to know exactly what is being put onto your system and where.

The following files are contained in your mmap.zip archive
    mmap.exe (the moving map display that runs while Flight Simulator is running)
    mmaptool.exe (a tool that you use to setup scenery areas, register the software etc)
    mmaphost.exe (used for Moving Map REMOTE mode)
    chicago.mmp (an example mmp file used in the Quick Start tutorial)
    fs6ipc.dll (used to communicate with Flight Simulator)
    readme.txt (read this first)
    keys.txt (quick reference for keystroke and mouse commands)
    editor.txt (quick reference for Moving Map Tool Editor)
    help.zip (these help files zipped up)

1. Copy mmap.exe, mmaptool.exe, mmaphost.exe and chicago.mmp to the directory of your choice
2. Copy fs6ipc.dll to your Flight Simulator\modules sub directory.
3. Unzip all the files in the help.zip archive to a directory of your choice.