Using On-Line Flight Planner Solved Many Issues

Five or so weeks post release, I’m generally happy with MSFS2024’s performance on my i5-9600/32GB/RTX3060Ti rig.

I generally fly IFR plans under 500 NM in the Daher. My main gripe at this point was the flight planning process, and general ATC.

But today I used the online planner in the flightsimulator.com site as opposed to the in app one, and it’s a game changer. More detailed plans, better route creation, better/more relevant ATC.

Just make sure it’s properly loaded into the avionics once in the sim.

In what way is ATC different?

I’ve been using the web-based official flight planner and SkyVector for planning my Career Mode flights. Both of those have route creation. I don’t think I’ve seen the EFB actually find a route.

The EFB is mostly useless on Xbox as you can’t use the search feature because of a bug or potentially a design flaw.

In the last dev stream, the developer of the web-based planner mentioned that flight following will eventually come to the planner. I hope that holds true for Xbox as well.