it all seems like shrinkfaltion from inibuilds practice 
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It’s ironic that they have prioritise streaming to make it easier and more convinient for casual players flight sim. Yet they expect users to floght plan using simbrief. 
I can tell you now that no casual player will use simbrief. They don’t want to spend 10-15min before each flight to flick back and forth between simbrief website, simbrief tablet, mdcu and also configuring third party ATC
In 2020 I fly in the Asobo A320 which had been discontinued for 2024. I love it. Yesterday I flew a new route. From LAX to Sanfransisco. In less than 1min I choose departure, arrival, approach. ATC worked well and the only issue was that I flight level could have been been 5,000 feet lower by the final two way point. However during my second flight of this route I compensated for that.
Overall that was an easy 1hour flight without using third party flight planning or atc.
Given that the TCA Airbus Edition is the hero pheriperal for the game I would expect this level of convinience to be offered by the 2024 EFB for all Airbus aircraft.
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Exactly, it is really ironic that while the game aims to simplify things for casual players by making it more of a “game,” they are expected to use tools like Simbrief for flight planning, which can be more time-consuming. Casual players probably won’t want to spend that much time on complex planning.
Your experience with the Asobo A320 in 2020, where you could quickly set up a flight, highlights the importance of having an integrated flight planning tool. The new EFB in MSFS 2024 should definitely offer this level of convenience for all aircraft.
I hope the developers recognize this need.
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Maybe they are expecting casual players to play careers, do activities and landing challenges. For those you don’t need flight planning.
Hopefully in next week’s developer stream they will speak about when the EFB will be fully functional for all planes.
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Interesting that path 3 includes EFB to cockpit updates for several aircraft including Boeing but not innibuild ones. 
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Premised on the fact that I have never liked inibuilds aircraft, particularly because of their messy and unimmersive sounds, I now dislike them even more because they stubbornly refuse to communicate with the new EFB.
Does it work with Boeing aircraft?
Its not a matter of casual or not. Im not paying for a subscription for updated nav data and charts when i already have them. Thats insane.
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Well said! It’s insane and inconsistent because after all the hype they created around the new flight planner, I got my hopes up! But without the ability to interface with the default aircraft, I now feel deceived and regret buying MSFS 2024. No one should be forced into a position where they have to pay an additional subscription for the navigation database; it should be an option if they choose to.
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Actually, even in career you’ll have to manually recreate the flight plan in the aircraft’s tablet and MCDU if you use an Airbus, since the plane doesn’t recognise the game EFB or flight plans at all
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I dream of EFB being integrated on all aircraft. It disturbs me to have to alternate between SimBrief-compatible and EFB-compatible aircraft. My ideal ? To be able to play without depending on external applications or sites, for a fluid and simplified immersion.
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Seems bizarre that this isn’t required for all aircraft in msfs24, especially the ones that come with the game. Hope this will get added/enforced at least for all included aircraft sooner rather than later. This should have way more votes, the current split between working from flight set-up, working when spawned on the ground or not working at all is utter nonsense.
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Yep, the Honeywell ACE aircraft in particular (PC-12/24) have this issue. Have to manually send the plan once seated in-cockpit.
Expanded my comment but for some aircraft that doesn’t even work. so there are three levels of implementation now it seems:
- none
- works after loading in the plane
- works from free flight set-up page
How do you explain this to new players? The in-sim flightplanner and the dedicated web-based planner deserve more introduction anyway.
Feels like a no-brainer to get this standardised.
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Definitely a question for Working Title on their Discord. But they may defer to the individual aircraft Partner Dev that built it too.
The API for the flight planing with new EFB is relased some time ago. Now MSobo should enforce this being implemented on every plane. Just disable every aircraft package when this is not implemented and yes, the aircraft devs would swear it, but in matter of less then a week every single plane would fully support the new EFB with its flight planning
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Can we get a list going of which planes this feature woks for currently?
Edgley Optica (all planes w 430/530?)
Corvalis Garmin g1000
Basically every with Garmin and Honeywell and the Max
- Cesna 172 Skyhawk (G1000),
- Cesna TT
- Cesna 208B
- DA62
- Vision Jet
- Pilatus PC-12 NGX
- Boeing 737 Max 8
This is not implemented for sure with any iniBuilds Airbus
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yeah for inibuilds for sure! I wish they would use the standard EFB and have the option to use simbrief if you want that. Life is full of choices so I don’t see why inibuilds is so dependent that people will always use simbrief. It’s nice to have a choice and new people that don’t know about simbrief won’t know that the inibuilds can’t handle the standard EFB. Just my thoughts.
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also not working with the Pipistrel Virus SW 