At the moment the only way I know of to plan a VFR cross country with multiple stops/landings is to enter the departure and arrival airports, and then drag the line of the track to the intermediate stops. While this works, the programme regards them as way points. Which means that any intermediate landings and take offs are not recorded in the logbook.
In FSX and P3D, any intermediate landings and take offs are recorded. Can we please have the same feature in FS2020. Thanks
You can do this but an easier method to set it up, after you’ve set arv/ dept. Click on the next airport/field after depart, click add, then continue adding more as you just did.
You can usually add something in between 2 already selected points by clicking on the line/path and it should highlight. Now click on the waypoint you want, but this doesn’t always work.
These multiple waypoints will record takeoff/landing as long as you use atc to request full stop, exit runway and select parking or taxi for depart at each point.
Uncontrolled fields-use traffic in atc menu and announce clear. Use traffic to takeoff also.
You can also add user waypoints anywhere. Just click a spot and then add.
Note, atc is currently prone to errors, you may find it incorrect at these extra points, sometimes.
IRL VFR flight plans only have arrival and departure airports. ATC does not VFR flight plans. Their primary purpose is to send out search and rescue if the flight plan is not closed within a certain amount of time after the planned arrival time.
MSFS VFR flight plans are not the same as they are IRL.
If you need intermediate airports to be logged in MSFS, land at the intermediate airport, shutdown the aircraft, and exit the flight. The logbook will contain the info about your arrival airport.
Other 3rd party logbooks may record flight information differently.
Hi Glen,
Thanks for spending the time to help. I did as you suggested and managed to get the landings recorded, but only one take off. This was after three x-country flights. All with the same results. I hope they can find a way to make the logbook record accurately.
Thanks again.
Roger
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Glad it helped. While not TTL, it’s a handy way to plan a multi stop trip.
Similar to doing a bush trip.
I think this should work even if the “waypoint” airport isn’t in the flight plan…
Thank you both for your help with this. Following you advice, I have been using ATC, although it is recording some of the intermediate landings/take offs it is still not recording them all. Which other simulators I have used do. And without having to use the ATC. 
Yesterday I did a short VFR flight, landed, taxied off the runway, selected a nearby airport, took off and landed at the nearby airport then shutdown and exited the flight. My logbook recorded the original departure airport and the final arrival airport. No entry was made of the intermediate airport which was listed in the flight plan as the destination airport. However, the logbook recorded two takeoffs and two landings. I should have shut down at the intermediate airport… next time…