User Waypoints Not Working

[macosmotic]

Hi Tim & Readers. Thanks for the beautiful and extremely useful software! Unfortunately I have a problem which limits my planning - I can't create user waypoints. This is true for both version 2.05 and 3.0. The process seems straightforward; the appropriate window appears and my user data (type, name, ID etc.) can be entered, but after I press 'OK', the waypoint doesn't appear either on screen or in the User Database. Very likely this is something to do with my PC and its XP installation, but I haven't a clue as to what could be wrong. Although the computer's specs are a bit ordinary for FSX, it does run tolerably well if I don't run both complex scenery (e.g. Orbx) and sophisticated aircraft (e.g. PMDG) simultaneously. FS9 and other applications run well. Anything I can try? I'm sorry if I missed it, but I couldn't find anything here about my problem. Thanks in advance for any suggestions. From Ian, in Australia.

[sky one]

Hi Ian,

could you try to import some user waypoint from this section? http://www.tasoftware.co.uk/forum/index.php?board=6.0
Just to check that your user DB is working well (you can always delete user waypoint, so don't worry about importing waypoints you'll never use).

Ciao
Cristiano

[macosmotic]

Cristiano - thanks for replying to my post, for thinking about the problem, and for the suggestion you made. I will try the import as you suggest, and get back to report what I find. I apologise for the delay in acknowledging your help.  I only just got back to this forum.
Grazie!
Ciao, Cristiano!

Kind regards, Ian. (Australia)

[macosmotic]

Hi Again Cristiano,

I have followed your suggestion and imported the Italy VFR data from the .CSV file kindly uploaded by RosarioManzo.  Although I have not done this procedure before, it all seemed to go smoothly. The User Database now contains many Italian VFR reporting points which I assume were not already there. Anyway, as the Import process ended, there was a message saying '390 of 390 VFR RP's were installed' - or something like that.

That suggests that my User Database is working. So I can't understand why the User Waypoints I enter through Plan-G and my keyboard do not appear. Do you have any further thoughts? It seems very strange!

Thanks again for your help. Anyway, now maybe I can try flying (maybe a SIAI Marchetti or a Partenavia or something!) around Italy!
(Before I have only planned flights to and from the big airports in Roma and Milano.)

Ciao, Cristiano.

From Ian, near YBCG, Australia.

[tim arnot]

Is it a display issue? When you restart Plan-G, does the waypoint appear?

If not, please check the log to see if there is an error reported.

[macosmotic]

Hi Tim, Cristiano & Readers. Thanks, Tim, for looking in to this. Yes, if I understand you correctly, this glitch might be at least partly display related as indeed my User Waypoints now appear after I restart 'Plan-G' (in the case of V3).  And after installing the Italian waypoints as suggested by Cristiano, my own waypoints are appearing immediately in V2. Perhaps they were previously appearing after a restart of V2, but I didn't notice; I would only see them if I returned to the same airspace, which quite possibly I did not do. Having assumed that I'd failed to get the User data incorporated into the Database, I might well have missed seeing them. But as a restart of V3 is still required before I can see the new waypoints therein, does this point to some graphics driver / video memory problem? Could it be related to the fact that although my PC runs FSX tolerably well provided I don't tax it with both complex scenery and payware aircraft, there is an odd (quite long, e.g. 30secs) delay to menu commands. It's as though there's a delay loop running when I (say) click to load an aircraft or change the fuel / payload settings. Once loaded, the flying is acceptable where it should be. I don't think, however, that the waypoints are delayed in appearing in V3; they just don't turn up at all until I reboot. Does this mean anything to you? Sorry to cause trouble, Tim, and thanks again for the beautiful software.