Yep, that’s all I need.
I rarely get more than an hour or so tops at a time.
I’d love to fly, say a Cessna from Luton to Rome, taking in the sites along the way, but not all in one sitting, I’d like to be able to do it in chunks along the way.
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Yep, agree with it all. Please fix this Asobo! Your going to loose customers who will look elswhere.
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I was looking through the developer documentation and there are indeed save and load flight functions documented. It seems like you are correct and the functionality is there. But for one reason or another, it was not surfaced in the UI.
This is probably something someone from the mod community could test out to see if these api calls are working, and if they’re somewhat functional, make something that will be somewhat passable until this is added into the game.
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Moderators.
2024 has https://planner.flightsimulator.com/
Saved flightplans can be downloaded by the EFB in every 2024 plane.
Fully converted planes like Cessna 152 G1000 allow the EFB to “Save flightplan to avionics”
So this wish can be closed.
That is a saved flight plan. Just about the same as in 2020. However, what if one saves and quits while in mid-air? How do you bring up this same plan while you re-load in mid-air?
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Actually, since this thread predates MSFS 2024, I’d like to request that this is looked at from the Working Title’s https://planner.flightsimulator.com service they created.
Could this wonderful service also provide an import/export functionality from which I (Xbox) could use to exchange PLN files with my PC friends who would prefer LittleNavMap or such? Could it also be able to import/export in the Navigraph (SimBrief) or SkyVector format(s)?
Disclaimer for DEVs, if the file formats are all the same then please just consider the import/export options.
We fly in a group flight twice every week and this has been lacking for me (only Xbox) since Day 1… so thanks for having provided it!
When you have a route created in the web based planner it has a box listing the departure and arrival airports with all of the waypoints between them.
You can copy and paste that block of text into SkyVectors waypoint block and it will, to the best of its ability, create a flightplan from that block of text.
However there are some airports in MSFS that have ICAO style identifiers that don’t exist in the real world.
Thanks for replying!
So indeed, it would solve “me” sharing to “them” (and I’ll test as soon as this evening with my wingmen) but I have a hard time (maybe 'cause I’m not familiar enough with the format) to capture their LittleNavMap plans and import/edit them.
And you’re right : some ICAOs are present IRL and not in MSFS (and vice versa) so I wouldn’t mind (at all, personally) that the import flags (or straight out deletes) those that are invalid for MSFS.
This would be a great QoL improvement for the flying Xbox’ers (and me!)…
Hopefully, this will be adressed in this version.
Note to Asobo/Working Title folks (and I know you know more than I do) : could you specify this to the Xbox Security Railguard Bureau or Restrictiveness For Console Platforms department at Microsoft? PLN files are text files…) Maybe they would allow the default OneDrive with a specific folder with four-factor-authentication if they wish from which we could download a text file and import it in the Xbox. Maybe?
If not, could you please upvote this? OneDrive to import .PLN files from Xbox (posted three years ago - almost…)
In case you haven’t seen this, here is a great writeup about how to share a web based flight plan with friends on any platform.
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THANKS! I found it yesterday, in fact. Wonderful tool indeed!! I spoke with Mike from WT on their Discord and he said he’d try to help me “export/import” PLN files but it’s mainly a “Microsoft/Xbox ecosystem thing” (sort of)… I told him he needed to keep on trying since, after all, PLN files are mere text files… So … As long as @Microsoft and @Asobo help him out, I’m sure it could work out.
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While the new flight planning tool is an excellent addition, the ability to save and reload a flight in progress, complete with flightplan and aircraft settings has never been resolved in 2020, and does not even exist as yet in 2024.
Why with so many votes at the head of this thread was this lack of basic functionality not even mentioned in the latest dev stream?
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