World Map Documentation?

[N6722C]

Is there any “OFFICIAL” documentation for the use of the World Map. ?

It first appears obvious … but a little investigation reveals a whole slew of NO SO OBVIOUS features, and "Quirks, that I suspect most have never even “Discovered”.

In particular, the things you need to do, in order to control the order of added waypoints – its far from obvious or intuitive .

Like may other areas of MSFS, and a lot of current software, lots of Hidden features that the Dev has put in (seemed a good idea at the time), but then never bothered (for permitted to spent the time), to document those feature, making the inclusion of those feature, almost useless.

I suspect many of us are using other Flight Planning tools, that may, or may not produce flight plans that are fully MSFS compatible, or have found they have to pass their flight-plan through an App like LNM, in order to format it to something that MSFS can currently correctly interpret.

[Hester40MT]

To my knowledge there isn’t, but I will ask if there is one or perhaps one in the works.

There is a somewhat “similar” wish on this:

Add a 'Learning Center' or other official documentation

MSFS is introducing tons of new people to flight simming. There is a huge glaring hole in what is being provided - no manual, or any official documentation. FSX had an excellent HTML-based Learning Center with 100s of pages of useful information on the simulator in general, aircraft, and avionics. We have been provided with NOTHING for MSFS. We are left to scrub multiple forums and get to watch youtube videos (which may contain wrong information) to try to figure out how things work. I hopp…

[N6722C]

I wanted to start a Community discussion, in particular about Flight Plans created in the current version of the “World map”, and the issues involved, and the work arounds.

I have been frustrated with it for years now, but last week I finally got a grip on some if its quirks, and work arounds, none of which I have seen anyone else mention in this forum.

Maybe a demo Video is called for, as trying to explain these issues and solution in text would take pages, and be almost unreadable for many.

[Hester40MT]

@N6722C

Maybe a demo Video is called for, as trying to explain these issues and solution in text would take pages, and be almost unreadable for many.

I think that’s a great idea.

[crazyhorsejesol]

Good idea.Are you going to do a demo ?

[N6722C]

I’ll try one evening this week-- it will be shot live without editing, and I fully expect there will be issues with things not working consistently, (that’s the nature of the World Map flight planner) but it may help others, no matter how crude it is.

[Michail71]

The world map does seem to have some interesting quirks and features. I still haven’t figured out the order, that can get frustrating.

I’ve long ago gave up and just manually enter my flight plans directly into whatever system I’m simming with (GNS530, G1000, etc.). Although that wouldn’t help for an airplane lacking GPS.

[Megadyptes7635]

If you click on the blue line it highlights it and when you add another waypoint it’ll add inbetween the two points on the highlighted part of the line.

If I click on the light between Shoreham and Bristol it highlights that section

Then when I add a waypoint at Salisbury Cathedral it adds it inbetween Shoreham and Bristol

BUT if I had the Bristol to Lands End section highlighted:

Then add a waypoint at salisbury it’ll add the waypoint after Bristol:

Unrelated to flight planning but I really wish the game would stop resetting all those POIs as ‘new’ with every single update.

[N6722C]

@Megadyptes7635

If you click on the blue line it highlights it

Exactly – sometimes but not always – then with later waypoints, it sometimes does not even add them, or if it does, it deletes another .

[Megadyptes7635]

Never had the waypoints delete on me but then again if I’m manually doing a flight plan on the world map it’s usually pretty brief with a handful of waypoints at most. So it usually plays nice for me at least. One thing that does get my goat is I’ve never had the filters save for me. I know I can edit a file to force certain ones on or off but I really shouldn’t have to.