First, thanks to Paul & wealthyspoon for unraveling my freebee aircraft viewing quirey.

Without trying to teach grannys how to suck eggs, for anyone else wanting to practice formation flying, I found that by running fs9 on my two PCs and :

Both
1. same field
2. same fs9 Flt.Plan (speeds 180kt) with Star at destination

Then
1. I take off the Second PC
2. join it on same Bband fs9 multiplay
3. put it on fsNav A/Pilot & FlyPP

I take off on first PC, join on fs9 & fsNav multiplays and go find the first one to practise formating on.

For some reason not both PCs can join on fsNav multiplay, so I only join the one I fly. Can anybody advise on this?                          luke

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I'm afraid dear old Luke confuses me most of the time with queries like this......!

So...What happens....?

You have both FS 2004 and FS Navigator installed and running on both computers....

You successfully connect to Sam's Server in Multiplayer using "FS 2004" on both computers....?

You successfully connect to Sam's Server in Multiplayer using "FS Navigator" on both computers....?

What goes wrong then...?

Paul.... ...!

P.S....and who is Multiplayer flying on the second computer... ...?

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...only on a Tuesday, providing it falls in the 15th. of the Month, Luke....
...trust me......!
LOL...!

Why would you want to watch FS Nav on the 2nd Screen.
If you have the Multiplayer FS Nav "RADAR" working on the 1st monitor you will be able to spot, and follow the 2nd aeroplane by watching the RADAR.... ...!

I can see all the other fliers on my FS Nav RADAR screen in Multiplayer, and maneuver to fly alongside them...(zoom in)...
...switch to outside view and you have a screen shot of all/both the aircraft in formation...!

Would that work, Luke...?

Paul...looking forward to Tuesday the 15th..... ... ...!

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...AAhhhh....!

Now you kept that quiet in your first post, Luke... ...!

Now it makes perfect sense, (two of you!)... ...!

Can't figure out why FS Nav wont work on both computer screens though... ...!
...assuming you've got it installed on both computers...

Paul....now it's Tuesday the 15th.... ...!!

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Wow.... ...!

That's an interesting thought, John.......!

They (FS Nav) probably work OK after installing on both computers and entering the "key" on both, and both running off-line, but when on-line maybe that's something different?...interesting.......!

Cheers, John... ...!

Paul... 8)...!

P.S....What about running both computers on a Local Area Network instead of on-line Multiplayer...would that work..?

I had this connection with my son,I post once this and the first reply and all of it end as   You have to buy another Flight Simulator 9 otherwise you braking the law this is the kind of thing you may get sometimes here,it seems like we have a microsoft policement here,I remember I told them Do you think having two pc one next side to the other both are my ptroperties ,to be so idiot and go buy another same softwareone of them said you should read the EULA pal! one game per pc it easy Luke you just have configurate there4 are many types of connection ,can be from a switch one chanel from the modem, and two for the two pcs,other (without internet) can be lan to lan it has to be a inverted lan cable,win xp will do the rest or hit autoconfigure in conections,is not big deal,make sure you copy the ip of your other pc by start /execute/cmd/then writte IPCONFIG and  there it is  
I use that connection then my son is not as fan of fs as me and he uninstall it ,But we always are playing counter strike 1.6 we have fun too,LOL Due that hes just a kid ,I always get pisst up because he can estabilize the plane he doesn't know how to use the autopilot he got tire of my screeming and one day he simply uninstaled
 

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But if you dont mention it nobody will take any notice 

boy its a simple reason why FSNav isn't working on your computer. did you change the port number of FSNav on the second computer? that makes all the dfference and relieves most symptoms

Ramos