FSX FLIGHT PLANS CREATED BY PLAN G and PASSING ALT

[Francesco.cecolin]

Hello! I am posting the same question also in this area of the forum because I don't know where is the correct position .
I am quite new of PlanG and using it since few days. I have the following problem: when creating a flight plan on PLAN G and changing PASSING ALT on different waypoints  ,then try to save as .pln to export to FSX, I am able to write the altitudes on the corrispondent boxes but it does not save the PASSING ALT. When I load in FSX I dont'find my ALT. but just those generated automatically by FSX. If I reload the .pln plan into PLAN G  I can read blank; it seems to be possible only saving the plan under extension .plg. But FSX imports only the.pln plans and so it generates automatically the altitudes being impossible to change them. How can I do? Am I doing something wrong? My task is to have my vertical profile defined by me case by case in the flight plan Many thanks in advance and best regards
Francesco  ???

[tim arnot]

That is correct. FSX is not capable of using the passing altitude values - it is only capable of storing a single general altitude. If you save an FSX .pln file, those values will not be saved, because they are not allowed for by Microsoft.

[fatphil]

Hi all,

I know this is an old thread but I've just been seeing what I can do with Plan G and the autopilot in FSX, and I thouhgt this might help someone.
So as stated above the export to FSX doesn't include the passing altitudes, but only the cruising altitude.

If someone is new to FSX (or coming back after a few years like me!) you might note that the Autopilot (certainly on the Baron) doesn't use the Flight plan's cruising altitude setting.  You need to set the climb rate and the desired altitude yourself.
I think this also depends on which aircraft you're flying and also the navigation mode you're using because ILS descents work correctly. 

Cheers,
Phil