Bug with X-Plane Flight Plans

[mariodonick]

Hello,

I've used Plan-G 2 for a while and have now switched to Plan-G 3 (Build 47) and X-Plane 10.10.

I've noticed a bug with the flight plans exported for X-Plane by Plan-G 3.

The following simple plan was exported:

I
3 VERSION
1
7
1 ETNL 0.000000 53,912224 12,299936
11 R2143 2000 53,919667 12,260333
1 EDCX 2000 54,161195 12,249470
11 ROSOK 2000 54,210000 12,076667
11 RUBET 2000 54,068889 11,647778
11 ALUBA 2000 53,930278 11,233333
28 +53,808_+010,735  2000 53,808355 10,734973
2 LYE 2000 53,800825 10,695858

When I loaded this plan in any plane's FMS, it did not work.

I then entered all the waypoints manually in the FMS and saved it. And look what I've found:

I
3 VERSION
1
7
1 ETNL 0.000000 53.912224 12.299936
11 R2143 2000 53.919667 12.260333
1 EDCX 2000 54.161195 12.249470
11 ROSOK 2000 54.210000 12.076667
11 RUBET 2000 54.068889 11.647778
11 ALUBA 2000 53.930278 11.233333
28 +53.808_+010.735  2000 53.808355 10.734973
2 LYE 2000 53.800825 10.695858

See the difference?

Plan-G 3 uses the , as decimal separator, while X-Plane uses  the . .

I don't know if Plan-G 3 uses the , by default, or if it simply uses the decimal separator that is selected in the operation system (a German Windows 7, in my case).

When I open plans exported by Plan-G in Windows Notepad and replace all , by . I can load and execute the flight plan fine, so the bug is not very critical, but maybe you want to fix it anyway. ;)

[Frankyls]

I can confirm this!

[sky one]

I can confirm too the export with the comma.
Windows XP Italian language

[jamino63]

Modifier dans panneau de configuration,
Rubrique modifier format des nombres le symbole décimal "," par un point "."
Redemarrer votre ordinateur, et le tour est joué. plus de Bug et tout fonctionne correctement pour les plans de vol Xplane 10

Amicalement

Jamino63

[mariodonick]

Modifier dans panneau de configuration,
Rubrique modifier format des nombres le symbole décimal "," par un point "."
Redemarrer votre ordinateur, et le tour est joué. plus de Bug et tout fonctionne correctement pour les plans de vol Xplane 10

Yes, this could be a temporary solution, but also affects other programs (such as office programs), so the setting has to be changed very often -- so maybe easier to edit the flight plans in Notepad.

I think it would be better if Plan-G simply used the . as separator (instead of the system wide separator based on local settings).