MSFS 2024 Flight Planning and website

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This is great. The only thing not working for me was it does not fill in the correct cruise speed and altitude for the selected aircraft or fill in any fuel usage data at all.

I planned a flight and selected the C172. It showed me at 325 kts at FL330 with zero fuel burn. Hopefully that will come soon.

The measure distance button is inop also. When that is fixed it will have something that Navigraph still lacks.

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I have created a flight plan in the web browser version of the tool, but don’t see it when trying to load it on EFB (using XBOX).

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Flight Planner looks very good. I have created a flight and saved it, but EFB cannot find any plan. When I select ‘Load flight plan,’ there is nothing there. What am I doing wrong?

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Folks who are not seeing their flight plan in the 2024 EFB, perhaps go back to the flight planner? Apparently (to me) saving it was not straightforward, so check to see if it saved at all. I’m not in the sim at the moment, but yesterday I had to find the right way to save a flight plan.

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This tool looks very promising. Some things are not yet there, like correct fuel calculation, but these can be added easily.
I am an Airbus guy. I can create a flight plan, add SID and STARs etc. but “send to avionics” is not doing anything (in the in-game tablet). Would I have to choose the right avionics first?
The A320N is connecting to Simbrief only, as it seems.
If they are keeping the charts updated here and in the airplanes, I’d say goodbye to Navigraph. Wondering what these guys have to say about the built-in tooling.

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Send to avionics is working in default GA models so this is probably airliner specific, or specific to the v2, as you suggest. Nice to have new chart options and tools. Keeping my Navigraph subscription.

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As a virtual pilot since FS2000, I am excited about the two new tools, both the EFB and the Flight Planner. I will describe the negative points for possible improvements:

EFB

  • Many charts are missing. Important airports in my region do not have any charts. This also forces me to use third-party software to view procedures. Ex: SBCO. An air base or SBKP.
  • In a career mode flight, I cannot load my planned flight.
  • With the possible improvement of ATC in the future, I was able to understand the initial idea: to create the flight plan in the EFB and file it so that ATC knows my intentions. It turns out that many times I file the plan and ATC does not recognize it. The option to “Request IFR clearance” does not appear. It still understands that I am VFR.
  • When we make a mistake in filing and have already requested clearance, when canceling the flight plan I cannot request IFR clearance again. This problem already existed in FS2020 (I did this by importing a flight plan file in “Load Flight”. You need to allow me to request ATC for clearance again when I file a new flight plan in the EFB.

In general, I thought the idea of ​​integration was great. Especially when there are improvements in ATC and I can send my flight plan to ATC and they understand my intentions without having to go back to the menu, as happened in FS2020.

Flight Planner

  • In VFR planning, I want to leave from small airports, but they simply don’t exist. (SSNH, SIXE). I understand that for flight charts we need a third-party provider, but isn’t it possible to call FS2024’s own database? Little Navmap does that.
  • Allow me to see my aircraft in real time synchronized with the simulator. (I understand the difficulty)
  • I like the idea of ​​planning, saving and being able to open it in my EFB. The community has wanted full integration for a long time, But why can’t I do this on a career flight? I’ve been a developer for 20 years and I understand that the buttons were blocked because the user couldn’t change the Origin and Destination, but this could be solved with a simple message: “The origin and destination of the loaded flight plan do not correspond to your mission.”

I confess that some things, if they weren’t planned, will be difficult to do, but I believe others will be simple. Anyway, I really like the idea of ​​the tools and congratulations to everyone involved. Thank you for the opportunity to express myself. I sincerely hope to be heard.

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It´s not possible to load the flightplan from the website. None of the informations can be sent to EFB. Same on you! Never will be like Simbrief!

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For clarity’s sake, I have been opening the EFB in the sim and sending it to avionics there. That is working for the GA planes (not tried it yet in any of the airliners).

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You totally can load the plan from tyeh website into the game EBF. There is an import button at the top of main route page.

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It’s annoying that Xbox or Asobo didn’t communicate that the EFB floght planner doesn’t work for all planes.

Yesterday I wasted 90min trying to sync flight planes to inibuilds a320, a330 and a310. I thought I was a newb or made a mistake. However the feature of sending flight plans to avionics don’t currently work in flight simulator 2024.

But then I tested sending flight plans to an airbus 747 and they worked.

This is a flagship feature of flight simulator 2024 and I am baffled that it doesn’t work perfectly out of the box.

Asobo’s Jorge Neumann hosted numerous youtube videos in the lead up to release. EFB not working with Airbus planes should have been communicated as there are tens of thousands of people who own Thurstmaster airbus Captain X and want to fly airbus planed in the new game.

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Simbrief won’t be made redundant. The built in EFB will have limitations and quirks. These will irritate professional pilots and hardcore enthusiasts who are happy with their current work flows.

Overtime MS will likely improve the EFB and the gap with Navigraph might close a bit. However MS will unlikely steam roll Navigraph. They don’t want to give third party developers the impression that MS will at any point copy their work and render them redundant.

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Okay so am I the only one who can’t seem to get the flight plan to save on the website? It’s pretty aggravating that when you name the plan and hit the save button nothing happens! I just wasted another hour of my life that I’ll never get back on this sim

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I cannot seem to file any flight plans… I am trying to fly Heathrow to Glasgow & The sim doesn’t recognise any departure procedure aside from direct or VFR. It is not picking up flight plans created through its own website. Is anyone having the same issue? Have you overcome it?

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Maybe check to see if one needs to log into the flight planner again in order to save? No idea how long one’s login lasts. Could be worth checking out?

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I have saved and saved and saved… It loads without waypoints just direct

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It is possibile indeed.

Tonight I had a flight from Zurich to Amsterdam with the Longitude. Everything was planned by the web interface, saved, then loaded by the EFB, sent to avionics and ATC.

Having LIDO charts for free it’s a huge bonus.

The only thing i miss is having charts on MFD, but I think is a matter of time.

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So i created s test flightplan on the website.
In the EFB ingame (xbox) i can NOT see any saved or loaded flightplans, except the ones created ingame.

Any ideas why? Is it buggy? Not working?

Account is correctly linked.

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I has a great problem. i make all plam. in msfs planer or simbirief. when i load the flp in the tabled, only read airports, not appear the airways, not ways points. not apears sid, not star.

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I have the same problem. I can reload the saved plan on the web site but don’t see it as available to load in the EFB in the sim (I’m on a PC).