How to enter altitude in G1000 Flight Plan Approach

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This is on FS 2020.

I am trying different types of approaches. I created a flight plan that uses RNAV approach to airport runway. The flight planner nav log on the main menu displays the appropriate altitudes on each stage of the approach all the way to the runway. However, in the game after clicking Ready to Fly, the G1000 flight plan does not include the recommended altitudes for each of the waypoints. I can select the appropriate altitude setting but I can’t figure out how to enter the appropriate altitude. I get a multicharacter blinking cursor.

I am thinking that I should be able to fly a full GPS flight with the plane traversing all the waypoints in the flight plan all the way to runway but I am assuming that the capability to alter the altitude at each waypoint based on preset altitudes is built in as well. I don’t know if this is true or If I am supposed to make the altitude changes manually.

I have successfully landed using localizers and glideslope. That works beautifully. This is why I am thinking on the GPS side, the same automatic functionality might be available to descend the plane to predetermined altitudes at specific points.

Thanks

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The functionality of the G1000 and G3000 seem to be very limited at the moment. I am hoping that the devs address these issues sooner rather than later.

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Actually most of the approach altitudes are way off.

There are flight plans, where you are at 33,000 feet up to a distance of - let’s say - 12 miles to your destination airport and are then supposed to get to 4,000 feet within the next two miles.

Microsoft has to fix this asap.

At the moment the work around is to check the recommended altitudes for such errors, ignore these and change your altitude so you are able to do a proper approach. All while ATC is yelling at you that you are x thousand feet below your assigned altitude.