Hi.

I just wanted to share a discovery I made. I didn't know how to save an INS plan, the documentation says that you can save and load a panel state. I couldn't make much sense out of it so I looked for something different. So I went to the FSX\Civa\ADEU folder, where the flight plans are saved, and started opening them to take a look and see the what they say.

The files end in .AWC and can be opened with Windows notepad. Here is what is inside the KBOS - KMIA tutorial flight plan:

Code (];
; Carousel IV-A INS
; ADEU Waypoints Data Card
;
; Waypoints Data Card for tutorial flight KBOS-KMIA
; Part 1, waypoints #2 to #9 into positions 2 to 9
;
2 N 41*43.4 W 071*00.3 ; 2 PDV
3 N 41*17.1 W 071*25.7 ; 3 TRAIT
4 N 40*55.1 W 072*19.0 ; 4 HTO
5 N 40*43.7 W 072*32.1 ; 5 HTO15
6 N 40*08.8 W 073*12.1 ; 6 GEDIC
7 N 38*56.4 W 074*31.7 ; 7 ZIZZI
8 N 38*03.4 W 075*27.8 ; 8 SWL
9 N 37*53.1 W 075*35.6 ; 9 SWL12
;
; End Of File
;[/code):

From what I can figure, anything after the semi colon ( ; ) is ignored (much like in the FSX .cfg files!). So what appears to be being read is the lines that start with 2 N 41*43.4 W 071*00.3 ; 2 PDV and ends with the line 9 N 37*53.1 W 075*35.6 ; 9 SWL12. So I made my own and it looks like this: [code]; ; Carousel IV-A INS ; ADEU Waypoints Data Card ; ; Waypoints Data Card for flight YMML - YSSY ; 1 S 37*09.9 E 145*23.7 ; 1 DOSEL 2 S 36*10.9 E 147*04.2 ; 2 EBONY 3 S 35*50.3 E 147*38.4 ; 3 ARRAN 4 S 35*25.8 E 148*17.9 ; 4 NONUP 5 S 34*44.4 E 149*23.4 ; 5 CULIN 6 S 34*30.1 E 149*56.0 ; 6 TARAL 7 S 34*16.8 E 150*25.8 ; 7 RIVET 8 S 34*13.2 E 151*12.9 ; 8 RISOL 9 S 34*06.9 E 151*13.2 ; 9 SIZZL ; ; End Of File ;

As you can see, I have used the same style for my plan (YMML - YSSY). I created it in Windows notepad and saved it, in FSX\Civa\ADEU folder, as YMMLYSSY.AWC. Once the INS was ready (ALIGNED) I use the ADEU to load my plan and away I went. It's working great.

I don't think you can make a complete flight plan of more than 9 waypoints because the CIVA-INS can only read 0-9 (the 0 is reserved for the original start point of the flight and 1 is the first waypoint). You might be able to load other parts of a flight plan while in flight (there are 3 parts to the tutorial KBOS - KMIA plan) but I need to test my ideas out first.

Mark