Now that I think about it, this is the ideal user experience for me. I may raise it as a wishlist item.
This is effectively an increase in realism. Setting up the flight plan in world map is like filing the flight plan with ATC.
It still carries through to ATC comms in the sim.
Then when you fire up the plane and get IFR clearance, you manually enter ATC’s route assignment response. This “bug” is effectively as realistic as filing GA IFR has gotten in MSFS.
No more futzing about with “request IFR clearance for instrument flight plan” in the ATC window and ending up with absurd target altitudes and flight levels.
Instead of “Fly Now” in the World Map view, maybe there should be three options:
- Fly now (if no destination is specified)
- File and load flight plan, Fly Now
- File flight plan only, Fly Now
The third option would effectively do what this “bug” did.