Taking the next steps..

[Kianoni]

There is no such information you are looking for.

[whatnot]

Originally Posted by Kianoni

There is no such information you are looking for.

No map of the mission ahead in the briefing screen and no way to affect your plane's ammo load depending on the mission? Yet another slipped feature / improvement failed to deliver. Well, I'm patient and hoping we'll get some work done on it one day.

Lack of map is really a bummer, was looking forwards navigating VFR over the beautiful scenery. If I recall correctly you can't switch just the path visible to the on-game map but there will be other icons coming with that too.

[Extreme_One]

The current Beta patch does contain a map of the mission area and shows flight paths.

[whatnot]

Originally Posted by Extreme_One

The current Beta patch does contain a map of the mission area and shows flight paths.

Great, so I can get just the path and no icons on the Map? I assume this is with putting 'Map Path' setting on. Is there any way to change the realism settings mid-campaing or is it a restart for me to get path only?

[whatnot]

I gave it a try to get just the flight plan (path) to the ingame map, but it's not doable with the settings:

[ ] 'No Map Icons'
[ ] 'No Map Path'
= AC Icons & Path

[X] 'No Map Icons'
[X] 'No Map Path'
= Naturally blank map

[X] 'No Map Icons'
[ ] 'No Map Path'
= Also a blank map

[ ] 'No Map Icons'
[X] 'No Map Path'
= AC Icons, but no path.

How do you usually navigate?

The red and blue planes on the map kills the fun of spotting bogies and a fair game. Good to hear that the briefing screen will improve, but having it in the in-game map too would help due to my poor photographic memory.

[Redroach]

As far as I've tested so far (mostly GB fighters), you just can't navigate with anything less than the map ghetto GPS mode - that is map icons, flightpaths etc. on.
The magnetic compass, needed for calibrating directional gyroes, is badly obscured in most planes. On top of that, the magnetic compass seems to be bugged as hell; it's wrongly labeled, the arrows pointing out flight direction seem to be randomly selected from flight to flight and, when you've tackled those obstacles, the heading given is, mostly, way off, too (seemingly by calculating the magnetic/geographical north pole differences in a wrong way).
Adding a simple heading indicator to the info window configuration modes would go a long way, but...nothing so far, sadly

[whatnot]

Originally Posted by Redroach

As far as I've tested so far (mostly GB fighters), you just can't navigate with anything less than the map ghetto GPS mode - that is map icons, flightpaths etc. on.

That's a shame. I've managed to do a decent job finding my target and back to homebase in my 109, but it's been almost CAVU weather every time so I just look around to get landmarks to guide me there.

For me the navigation is definately a big part of the experience. But given the other urgent development /fixing priorities I can admit it's not in the top bunch of issues.

[whatnot]

Originally Posted by cheesehawk

There will be a map path if you have it selected, and if there is an actual flight path to display, i.e. online in a server will obviously not have one, but the dogfight-even quick missions do.

That's pretty weird, because I've a few times with settings:

[X] 'No Map Icons'
[ ] 'No Map Path'

And I get nothing on my map, no path at all. An with deselecting the icons I do get the path but also every other icon including planes, ships, AAA batteries etc.

But have to give it another try today as you seem to be convinced it's possible to have the path only.