When I create a flightplan in the Garmin1000, on the runway (tested with the Baron 58), save the flight and load it again, the flightplan is not loaded additionally. It is not even displayed in the Garmin1000 to choose. The same when I save a flight enroute with an active flightplan and load the flight again: the plane will appear in the correct location and under correct conditions, but with no flightplan - although the flightplan is listed in the according *.FLT file in the LocalState folder. I also cannot create a flightpaln in MSFS and save it under the *.PLN extension - it is not offered in the SAVE dialog. To make it short: I can load a *.PLN file once, but cannot reload an active flightplan with a *.FLT file. Can anyone help?
I don’t think flight plan upload or flight plan updates from the Garmin is enabled. I’m not sure why you are saving the flight and then (immediately?) loading it again.
The use of a flight file *.flt is not well documented or supported. In addition, each .flt file is customized by the aircraft choice.
It is logical to think that saving and loading a flight file .flt should work any time and and any where. But unfortunately that isn’t how flight files work. The ONLY time they work correctly is when a restart is done at the end of a flight. This is because there are three different sections of the .flt file that contain flight plan information. One of the sections contains a pointer to a flight plan file .pln which is incorrect. When you try re-using a .flt file, the flight plan is not displayed BUT the flight plan information is in the NAVLOG top menu item and may or may not be displayed on the VFR Map.
Where are you creating and then attempting to save a flight plan? On the World Map?
An active flight plan is not a .flt file. As I mentioned the .flt file contains an incorrect pointer to the .pln file.
Even though many tickets have been submitted through ZenDesk, Asobo seems to be reluctant to fix this issue. It is sort of working as it was initially designed.
Thank you for the answer. This is not a good trait of MSFS (and not the only one). In previous versions of Flight Simulator, it was possible to resume a safed flight enroute with a working flight plan. This was very handy. My impression is, that MSFS has meanwhile got more the character of a game than that of a training software.
You can only save a Flight Plan on the World Map.
Create the Flight Plan.
Don’t click FLY.
Note that if you click FLY, you can fly the Flight Plan but have
lost the capability to save it.
Save the Flight Plan.
Two files are saved: .flt and .pln.
Both have the Flight Plan.
Note: Simbrief Downloader will save only a .pln file.
The two files are different when you load them.
.pln file will load but use the current Flight Conditions
and not the ones saved.
Flight Conditions: Time, weather
.flt file will load but not give you the capability to change the Flight Conditions.
You can edit the .flt file to give you the capability to change the
Flight Conditions via the on-screen menu : the Cloud Icon.
Create Flight Plan on the World Map.
Set your Flight Conditions. (Time and Weather)
Don’t click FLY.
Save to PC as .flt → name.flt
Use Notepad to edit this saved name.flt
Flights are located in the LocalState folder of your “Installed Packages” location.
C:\Users\userid\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState
This is a Symbolic Link folder and points to your physical folder.
Edit the .flt file.
[DateTimeSeason]
Season=Summer
Year=2023
Day=185
Hours=13
Minutes=0
Seconds=24.222146987915039062
UseZuluTime=False
Set you day, hour, minutes.
Note:
Hour 13 = 1 PM
Day is Julian. Google it → may 4 to julian gives you 185
Edit the Weather to this:
[Weather]
UseWeatherFile=True
UseLiveWeather=True
WeatherPresetFile=.\WeatherPresets\ClearSky.WPR
WeatherCanBeLive=True
Choose the weather preset that you want for the flight.
I also set the fuel quantity for the flight for my CJ4 to 75%:
[Fuel.0]
TankSelector=All
TankSelector1=All
Center=0
LeftMain=75
RightMain=75
Save the name.flt file. Don’t change the name.
You can load this file at any time.
Next day or month.
Nothing will change.
You now have the cloud icon on the upper screen menu.
You can change the time and weather for the flight.
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