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9. The TERR button (5) (Terrain)

Pressing the TERR button changes the display from "night" to "day" display. The night display

is mostly blue and black, the day display will show you terrain as it might be seen from a

satellite, showing water and mountains, ridges, rivers, lakes, etc. You select the display that

works best for you.

A more detailed "Day" display: There is a "fix" you can use to make the day terrain display far

more accurate than what comes with your sim. It is FREEware. Those of us flying "low and

slow" can use this to fly between mountains and up river basins easily. If you are a "high flyer"

(commercial jets, etc), this will not make a lot of difference for you.

From the

RTMM FAQ

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Here is some new software for your Garmin GPS on your aircraft. All you do is rename

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your fs9gps.cab in your gauges folder to fs9gps.cab.old .... then put in this new

fs9gps.cab in its place. That is ALL there is to it (I even got it right the first time!).

I flew through a valley about 10 aircraft widths wide this afternoon and had the GPS

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zoomed in and EASILY stayed right in the middle of the valley, twisting and turning with

the contours. The accuracy is perfect and you won't believe how much more detail

there is on your GPS screen. A great addition. You can download the cab file

You can see the better definition in this example.

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