No correct route in Flight Plan

[Snorre]

Hi and thanks for this wonderful programme!

I'm probably too stupid to see my mistake, but I always get a route wihich is a straight line somewhere over the water, but not the one I planned out with the tool.

Here's what I do: I select an airport, right click and select it as the start point. Then I select some point as waypoint 1 and finally an airport again to land. I couldn't find an item to say destination or the like and also no button to say "calculate route" or else. So I just select to save the flight plan for FSX, that's it. I can select and load that plan, the nav log is exactly what I had planned but the route is completley off as described above.

I use FSX with Acc, Vista 32 

Appreciate your help

Gunter

[tim arnot]

The route is calculated as you build it - you can see it in the Flight Plan expander on the right. Or am I not understanding your question?

If I want to go from A to B, via C, there are two ways to build a plan.

One is to right click on A, and select Start. Then right click on C and select Add, then right click on B and select Add.

The second is to right click on A and select Add, then right click on B and select Add. Then click on the edit button and drag the plan line over C and release it.

Both will end up with the same plan.

You can also right click on the waypoints in the plan expander and move up/down/delete/insert etc.

[Snorre]

Hi Tim, thanks for the quick answer. I use the procedure as you decribed it, but the route is not usable in the FSX GPS. Is that a bug or intentional? The Nav Log is correct but the route is not displayed, it is misplaced somewhere in the world.

[tim arnot]

Does your route start AND end at an airport? If not, FS won't display it.

[511Flyer]

If you have FSX running before you open Plan-G, you can make a flight plan and save it. It will show on Plan-G, but not on the GPS.

You have to restart your flight and load the plan before you fly. The flight plan will then show in Plan-G and the GPS. 

At least, that is what I found when I tried it. I think it is best to make the flight plan and save it before loading FSX.

Dennis.

[Snorre]

Thanks for your help. Yes, my flight starts and ends at an airport and yes, I saved the plan, shut everything down, restartet FSX and loaded the flightplan(s), but it is always the same, no matter what plan or aircraft or airport, there is no correct route, just a correct navlog.... ???

I just downloaded the flight plan from the thread "waypoints switch too soon", and that plan shows on the GPS.....???

[Snorre]

If someone finds the time to check the attached flight plan, maybe the error could be found. I installed G-Plan now on another computer with XP, but the problem remains the same.

Thanks, your help is really appreciated.

[jschall]

Snorre, I opened that flight plan in Plan-G. It appears to have the starting point in Munich, the end point in Erding AB, but a weird middle waypoint at the 0, 0 point (in the Atlantic Ocean south of Ghana)  ??? The total distance calculated by Plan-G is 5930.5 nm!!!

Could you please list the intermediate waypoints you are TRYING to create?

- Jeff Schallenberg
Mont Saint-Hilaire, Québec

[tim arnot]

It looks like the problem is to do with the regional settings you have in Windows (it's writing commas for decimal points). Could you send me a flight plan you've built in FSX for comparison? It should be pretty straightforward to fix once I have it.

The user waypoint shows in the Atlantic (Lat 0, Lon 0) because you don't have that waypoint in your database, and so it's got no alternate coordinates to plot.

[Snorre]

ok, thanks for your help. If its just a change in settings, I will do it once I know what to change.

A "working" flightplan is attached.

Thank you

[tim arnot]

Thanks. It'll require a change in code. The change is pretty straightforward, but since it's in a core area, it'll need extensive regression testing to make sure nothing else gets broken (been there, done that!), so it'll be a few days before it gets released.

[Snorre]

Well Tim, thank you very much indeed! Strange that I am the first to discover that problem...

[davebelsey]

Dennis,

You have to restart your flight and load the plan before you fly

Not true for me, I'm afraid.

Whilst in a session the other evening with FSX running, I loaded Plan G.  I then created a small flight plan in Plan G and saved it to the usual location.  I then brought up the GPS and loaded the flight plan in the normal way.

Dave.

[TangoEcho]

I was in the same session and also produced a plan 'on the fly', then brought it up in the GPS, like Dave.

[tim arnot]

You should be ablr to open a flight plan in FS at at time. If you can't you need to document wahat you did and what happened and report it as a bug (assuming it's not caused bu the region settings issue reported by the OP).