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Thanks Pete for the fast answer. I somehow expected that this wouldn't work. Yes, I know of FliteMap but it is expensive, especially if you want to have current navdata which for flightsim tools are available for a very reasonable price via navigraph. Do you know of any (good) flight planning/moving map tool which works with the navigraph data and can directly connect to a real-world GPS? Regards, Alexander

Sorry that I wasn't clear. In my concrete case, I would like FlightSim Commander to show my real-world position on its moving map display. It cannot connect directly to a GPS unit as far as I know but as it uses WideFS/FSUIPC to get the aircraft position from FS I thought that it may be possible to have a program that takes the position from a real-world GPS and feeds it to WideFS. This is completely independent from FS which wouldn't run at all. The nice thing using WideFS would be that this would automatically also work for other moving-map programs which interface with WideFS. You mentioned LUA scripts which I have heard of but I have no experience with what they can do. I hope this is clearer now. Regards, Alexander

Dear Pete, several flight planning tools interface to FSUIPC to obtain the plane position within FS. I've been wondering whether the possibility exists to feed the position from a real-world GPS (connected e.g. via a USB port) into FSUIPC (WideClient) so that the tools display my real-world position. I searched some time on the web and couldn't find anything so I guess the answer is no. In this case, would this functionality be an option for a future release? Or is it possible for me to write an interface to WideClient myself? Regards, Alexander