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Message started by tyler767l on Aug 12th, 2013 at 9:14pm

Title: Re: Problems with transatlantic flight
Post by Markoz on Aug 15th, 2013 at 2:53am

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[quote]1. After pasting the route into notepad and saving it as a PLN, I could not open it in FSX. Every time it "loaded", the flight plan remained as nothing.


Not sure why this happened. It worked fine for me.[/quote]
Me either! :o


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[quote]2. I can't find the first 3 waypoints! STOIC, DIXXE or JEFFW. Nor could I find the waypoints KAYNE and INSUN. I can't find them in FSC9, FS Map or FS Flight Planner. Not even at the LON/LAT co-ordinates in the PLN you gave. So how did you create the flight plan? Did you use the default FS Flight Planner? :o


After you load the flight plan, did you click "find route?" when you do that, FS completely ignores the route you just loaded and makes its own.[/quote]
I couldn't select "find route", the button was greyed out. That's because the flight plan did not load. After selecting the plan and pressing OPEN to load it, the FS Flight Planner page simply remained BLANK (no departure airport listed, no arrival airport list and therefore no route between them). :( In the end, I created the route using the waypoints as listed in the PLN that I copied from your post. Interestingly enough, the location of KIAD is different in mine:

<DepartureID>KIAD</DepartureID>
       <DepartureLLA>N38° 56' 22.51",W77° 27' 35.18",+000312.00</DepartureLLA>


This is from yours:

<DepartureID>KIAD</DepartureID>
       <DepartureLLA>N38° 56' 50.00",W77° 27' 35.00",+000000.00</DepartureLLA>


The same applies to quite a lot of the waypoints in the route. I curious to find out why they are different. I mean we both ARE using FSX aren't we? :o


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[quote]3. The LRP waypoint was not a problem for me at all. Once I reached it, the 767 continued on to the next waypoint and I never saw LRP again over the next 8 or so hours of the flight. I have no idea why it stayed in front of you all the time or why you couldn't delete it. So this one is a mystery to me. :-/


Me too. But today when I loaded the saved flight, it was still there, but somewhere in the remaining flight, LRP disappeared.  :question

But I was able to finish the flight without any problems.[/quote]
Definitely a mystery! Anyway, I'm glad you were able to complete the route without problems in the end.

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