flight plan conversion

[Thomas Ohnacker]

Hi Enrico,

when I prepare a flight plan with "FS Navigator 4.6", 1 or 2 characters of
the waypoints are truncated in CDU and ND.

I checked the support forum and found the problem in some postings.

Your advice is to load the plan in FS and save it again before loding into
CDU.
I tried it but still some character is missing.
If the waypoint is 5 character than 1 is missing. (Example: DODIL is ODIL)
If it is a VOR or a NDB than the first character is missing but therefore the
system add XX (Example: VOR is MAH, than it is changed to XXAH

If I plan the flight in FS2004 only than it is ok.

Beside this I found another problem. I use FS2004 in German version. If you
load or save a flight plan the standard path is C:\dokumente und
Einstellungen\Username\Eigene Dateien\Flight Simulator-Dateien\
This path you can not change in the FS settings (I asked Microsoft). In the
english version of FS2004 it is the same path but instead of ...\Flight
Simulator-Dateien it is
FSPlans.

The CDU seems to look into the FSPLAN-path and load the newest plan.
I could not find an entry in the CDU.ini where I can change
the path to the german version.

Means even when I save the produced flight plan in FS I have to copy the
PLN-file into the path ....\fsplans before I can load into CDU.

Hope you can help.

Regards

Thomas

[Thomas Richter]

Hi Thomas,
du musst nur den Pfad freigeben als FSPlans, sonst nichts, siehe Bild. (Ist
auch so beschrieben)

>>The CDU seems to look into the FSPLAN-path and load the
>>newest plan.
>>I could not find an entry in the CDU.ini where I can
>>change the path to the german version.

>>Means even when I save the produced flight plan in FS I
>>have to copy the PLN-file into the path ....\fsplans
>>before I can load into CDU.

Best Regards
Thomas Richter

[Thomas Ohnacker]

Hi Thomas,

pls. let me reply in english to give everybody the posibility to understand.

First of all thank you very much for your advise.
I changed the network filename as you recommended and it works. :-)

But still there is the problem with the conversion of the flight plan when I
use Flight Navigator 4.6

Do you have a solution for this problem as well ?

Thanks

Thomas

[Enrico Schiratti]

Hi,

the format of FS is a bit different from the one generated
by FS Navigator, there are two leading characters in front
of every waypoint that I can't include.

Can you please send me the offending flight plan to
support@projectmagenta.com so I take another look at it?

Ciao

Enrico

"Thomas Ohnacker" wrote in message
news:383469.76970@wb.onvix.com...
> Hi Enrico,
>
> when I prepare a flight plan with "FS Navigator 4.6", 1 or
> 2 characters of
> the waypoints are truncated in CDU and ND.
>
> I checked the support forum and found the problem in some
> postings.
>
> Your advice is to load the plan in FS and save it again
> before loding into
> CDU.
> I tried it but still some character is missing.
> If the waypoint is 5 character than 1 is missing.
> (Example: DODIL is ODIL)
> If it is a VOR or a NDB than the first character is
> missing but therefore the
> system add XX (Example: VOR is MAH, than it is changed to
> XXAH
>
> If I plan the flight in FS2004 only than it is ok.
>
> Beside this I found another problem. I use FS2004 in
> German version. If you
> load or save a flight plan the standard path is
> C:\dokumente und
> Einstellungen\Username\Eigene Dateien\Flight
> Simulator-Dateien\
> This path you can not change in the FS settings (I asked
> Microsoft). In the
> english version of FS2004 it is the same path but instead
> of ...\Flight
> Simulator-Dateien it is
> FSPlans.
>
> The CDU seems to look into the FSPLAN-path and load the
> newest plan.
> I could not find an entry in the CDU.ini where I can
> change
> the path to the german version.
>
> Means even when I save the produced flight plan in FS I
> have to copy the
> PLN-file into the path ....\fsplans before I can load into
> CDU.
>
> Hope you can help.
>
> Regards
>
> Thomas
>
>
>