I get this message after attempting to load my FP into the Radar Screen. All appears to be working until I went to the Weather Tracking screen and the flight tracking shows "FLIGHT PLAN NOT LOADED"Please advise!

OK,1. In Planning click on MSFS.2. Browse to your FS plan.3. Highlight and click OK.4. In Planning click on Update.Plan must be an exact FS plan. Resave in FS04 any 3rd party generated plans.Hope this helps,JimActiveSky Support

>OK,>>1. In Planning click on MSFS.>2. Browse to your FS plan.>3. Highlight and click OK.>4. In Planning click on Update.>>Plan must be an exact FS plan. Resave in FS04 any 3rd party>generated plans.>>Hope this helps,>Jim>ActiveSky SupportJim,The plan is the one I created with FSBUILD 1.4.3 and loaded into AS2004 using the NEW ROUTE button of the main screen. It loaded fine, when I go to the RADAR SCREEN, and I do exactly as you describe above, nothing displays. I tried the same route with a FP created with MFSP flight planner and AS2004 did load it fine in both the main screen and Radar Screen. I guess AS2004 does not like the format FSBUILD 1.4.3 uses to create PLN files!Thanks for your help!

AS2004 loaded the FSBuild plan just fine. It's Active Radar that needs an exact FS04 plan. Do this: take a FSBuild plan, open it in FS, resave it in FS, then load it into Active Radar. It will work!!Hope this helps,JimActiveSky Support

>AS2004 loaded the FSBuild plan just fine. It's Active Radar>that needs an exact FS04 plan. Do this: take a FSBuild plan,>open it in FS, resave it in FS, then load it into Active>Radar. It will work!!>>Hope this helps,>Jim>ActiveSky SupportJim,That did the trick, Thanks! I notice in the PLN files quite a bit of formating difference between the two files. Again, thanks!

Hi Jim,Do you know if a flight plan produced in FSNav and exported to FS9 would load the route into the weather radar?I do not get the route loaded into the radar uasing the above method, unless I am doing something wrong.I create the flight plan in FSNav, export it to FS9 and then copy that PLN file to AS2 on the second PC (for route smooothing).I go into FS9 -> flight planning and load the route and once the radar is giving me returns go to tracking mode, hit the MSFS button and select the route PLN file. I then hit the update button in the weather radar.I have no problem getting AS2 weather into FS9 and do get returns from the weather radar.TIA

Make flightplan in FSNav - save it and Export it to FS9.In FS9: Alt - F - PLoad flightplan SAVE AND OVERWRITE the flightplan in FS9.Now you can click OK and open the flightplan in the radar of AS2004.http://www.hifisim.com/images/as2004betateam.jpgPatrick/EBBR

In the long run it may be better for Active Radar to support the FS2002 plan format instead of the FS2004.Because several other programs have not upgraded to the FS2004 format because there appears to be is no extra benefit to the 04 format, and the FS9 Planner accepts the FS2002 format just fine.Something HiFi should seriously consider IMO.Regards.Ernie.

I would agree with Ernie's suggestion. I use FSBuild 2 for all my flight planning. The ability for AS2 to integrate with FSB was a key driver in my decision to purchase AS2. Loading the FSB exported flight plan in FS9 then resaving (overwriting) does work. But it is a step, in my opinion, which is unnecessary. It already takes an additional four to five minutes to complete the preflight routine because of the time for AS2 to complete the processing of the imported flight plan. Any additional support for the wx gauge to directly load the FSB2 exported flight plans would be appreciated.Thanks to the ActiveSky team for the continued timely support,

AS2004 will load FSB plans directly as long as 2.2Beta is used. Isn't this correct?JimActiveSky Support

>AS2004 will load FSB plans directly as long as 2.2Beta is used. >Isn't this correct?The FSB plan is in FS2002 format, which apparently the Active Radar component does not support, but FS9 does.This is likely why users have to load the FSB2 or FSNav, or other add-on exported .pln into FS9 then save it in FS9 before they can use it with Active Radar.The problem in this case appears to be Active Radar's non support of the still widely used FS2002 .pln format.In think maybe in correction to my original suggestion, the best way to go is to support both .pln formats ?Regards.Ernie.

I think we are talking about two different things here! As far as I know Active Radar only will accept exact FS04 plans no matter the source.Active Sky 2004 will accept FSB2.2 plans correct?I agree with your suggestions and I am just trying to keep things straight in my head!!Hope this helps,JimActiveSky Support

Thanks Patrick, that extra 'save' did the trick although I would have thought exporting to FS9 would have saved the flight plan into FS9 format :-hmmm

Hi Ernie,I'll work on this for MR1, ideally ActiveRadar should support both... Thanks!Damian ClarkHiFi Simulation SoftwareDeveloper of ActiveSkyhttp://www.hifisim.comhttp://www.hifisim.com/images/as2004betateam.jpg

What I'm finding as odd is that AS2004 loads the FSB2 output (FS2002 format) but NOT the format loaded and resaved by the FS9 flight planner. The weather radar gauge loads it only after resaving with FS9. So I have to have both formats there to get them loaded. It works, but boy is it confusing! :-)cz