This is a feature request of sorts… I know that one can load a flightplan into MSFS 2020 and fly it with all of the fixes and navigational gps points, if you load the flightplan before the flight begins, but I think it would be neat if MSFS 2020 gave the option to store and save, and even enter a flightplan from Simbrief into the sim after the official start of the sim session.
Part of the reason I’d like this feature is because I fly on Vatsim occasionally (which MSFS 2020 does a fantastic job doing btw), but after I had already filed my flightplan, clearance delivery modified my flightplan that was already loaded into the sim “as is.” It was a struggle to get the new fixes inserted “into the box” … it was doable, but I think this feature could be improved?
Yes, makes for better utility.
Why not raise this in the wishlist category so as we can all actively vote for this!
Regards.
I will do that. Darn, now I need to figure out a concise way to say all of this haha
Wishlist entry done. Vote here: Flightplan functionality - Self-Service / Wishlist - Microsoft Flight Simulator Forums
It is about time this is brought to the front of the line.
Doing all of the minute pre-flight, and get assigned another runway and not being able to put in the departure without it screwing up the flight plan, is getting a bit tiresome.
Also, alternates, changes to flight plans while enroute, and a host of other things. It is time to move this fly-around VFR game towards the simulator side of the equation.
Good post!
It is possible to load a flight plan while in flight. ESC to the ESC menu. Select Load. A file selection window opens displaying only .flt (flight files). Type in . for the file name and press enter. All the files including .pln (flight plan) files are listed. Select the flight plan file to load and press enter. Done.
This is good to know, and good material for perhaps how Microsoft can move forward functionality-wise. Perhaps some of the starting material for enhancing the flightplanning abilities will lie in not having to pause (ESC menu) to load a new flight plan. In the mean time, this is good to know, like I said. I think Garmin’s have the ability to load flightplan’s direct from a storage database screen; this wouldn’t be a bad starting place (have the esc screen be shunted into a storage screen as far as loading flight plans).
Midflight loading is a good capability. I’ve noticed that when I want to do a dark start, it wasn’t too intuitive to be able to choose a parking spot and not have the flightplan go a bit wonkers… I did realize the space above in the selection screen where this can be sort of avoided.
The day I did have trouble with the flightplan when the controller amended my departure, I was able to, like I said, “insert before” other waypoints that didn’t line up anylonger. (The start of that flight though, I was afraid of the feature where the flightplan seemed to load only with an engine’s running, on the active runway situation, and had taxied off of the runway and into a parking space before connecting to VATSIM… )
So, making sure sim logic can “know” that I simply want to load a flightplan regardless of my position is another buttress in this improvement process.
https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/why-is-not-possible-to-load-a-new-flightplan-from-cockpit/331060
https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/load-pre-saved-flightplans-from-cockpit/291533
If we all voted in the same place, maybe someone would take the request seriously.
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