Loading a flight plan

[Greyheart]

1 hour ago, n0taurius said:

Good day All,

I’ve been mucking about with this for sometime this morning. All I can say is this is not as straightforward as I thought it might be. My findings so far can be best described in two words – “Results Vary” 😊

Using the flight plan generated by @Greyheart, I get very different results depending on the GPS unit it is loaded into. For preliminary tests I used both default Cessna 172’s. One with the G1000 and the other has the GNS 530. Since MSFS 2020 SU5, loading a direct flight from the World Map will result in two extra waypoints added (they appear to be some type of departure and arrival reference points). In the 172 with the G1000 they are not named in the flight plan but are represented by an indirect route graphically (in this case a curved flight path upon departure from KSEZ and an initial DTK of 214°.  Then loading overtop using FSUIPC7 you will notice the DTK of 245° (the correct angle) to the waypoint JUWSO. However, the graphical display does not change.

Using the non-G1000 172 has more dramatic and easily seen results using the same steps as above because the waypoints added by MSFS 2020 are named and are erased when the flight plan is reloaded via FSUIPC7,

I don’t normally fly the models with the glass cockpit so my statement that FSUIPC7 overwrites the flight plan needs to be qualified as described above. A newly generated flight plan will not overwrite an existing flight plan.

Having said that, spawning to an airport and loading a flight plan via FSUIPC7, I find, does work. When I loaded the flight plan @Greyheart generated into the G1000 model the waypoint JUWSO did show in the FPL screen so I don’t know why it didn’t when @Greyheart loaded it.

@John Dowson, I don’t think there’s much you can do at this point as I see this as not being a FSUIPC7 issue, and I’m sure all will change again when SU6 is distributed.

I will continue to experiment and once I have something definitive and consistently replicable, I will revisit this post.

Some good testing there, thanks @n0taurius.

I think your two word summary best sums up my experience as well and it's looking like we / I may need to wait for the MSFS / NXi devs to fully implement the function.

I will retry the one that worked for you but not me to confirm as fresh spawn loads are on the whole working for me.

It's been an interesting exercise.