Importing a flightplan into AS2012

not showing waypoints

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August 15, 201213 yr

Hi there,

I thought with the release of SP1 this bug (?) which comes from ol' ASX days will be fixed somehow. However, it's still there and annoying, tbh. I'm really sorry if I'm mistaken considering it to be a bug (I already feel smbd shouting at me: "RTFM!!!") But...

Whenever I import any customized (eg: user waypoints) FSX flighplan into AS2012 and hit "Process", the only data I can view under "Flightplan" page are the names / IDs of departure and arrival airports - no en-route way-points actually contained in .PLN file are visible making it impossible to get the winds-aloft data for these "missing" waypoints. Here is the contents of my recent FP for NZRC (Ryans Creek) - NZCB (Centre Bush):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<SimBase.Document Type="AceXML" version="1,0">
<Descr>AceXML Document</Descr>
<FlightPlan.FlightPlan>
 <Title>NZRC to NZCB</Title>
 <FPType>VFR</FPType>
 <CruisingAlt>5500</CruisingAlt>
 <DepartureID>NZRC</DepartureID>
 <DepartureLLA>S46° 53' 51.96",E168° 6' 24.84",+000269.00</DepartureLLA>
 <DestinationID>NZCB</DestinationID>
 <DestinationLLA>S46° 2' 27.29",E168° 18' 41.98",+000252.00</DestinationLLA>
 <Descr>NZRC, NZCB</Descr>
 <DeparturePosition>22</DeparturePosition>
 <DepartureName>Ryans Creek</DepartureName>
 <DestinationName>Centre Bush</DestinationName>
 <AppVersion>
	 <AppVersionMajor>10</AppVersionMajor>
	 <AppVersionBuild>61472</AppVersionBuild>
 </AppVersion>
 <ATCWaypoint id="NZRC">
	 <ATCWaypointType>Airport</ATCWaypointType>
	 <WorldPosition>S46° 53' 51.96",E168° 6' 24.84",+000269.00</WorldPosition>
	 <ICAO>
		 <ICAOIdent>NZRC</ICAOIdent>
	 </ICAO>
 </ATCWaypoint>
 <ATCWaypoint id="rp01">
	 <ATCWaypointType>User</ATCWaypointType>
	 <WorldPosition>S46° 51' 16.19",E168° 7' 36.59",+000000.00</WorldPosition>
	 <Descr>Baypoint Reporting Point</Descr>
<ICAORegion>KK</ICAORegion>
	 <ICAOIdent>RP01</ICAOIdent>
 </ATCWaypoint>
 <ATCWaypoint id="rp02">
	 <ATCWaypointType>User</ATCWaypointType>
	 <WorldPosition>S46° 34' 09.29",E168° 11' 32.80",+000000.00</WorldPosition>
	 <Descr>Mainland Reporting Point</Descr>
<ICAORegion>KK</ICAORegion>
	 <ICAOIdent>RP02</ICAOIdent>
 </ATCWaypoint>
 <ATCWaypoint id="NZNV">
	 <ATCWaypointType>User</ATCWaypointType>
	 <WorldPosition>S46° 25' 43.49",E168° 16' 20.78",+000000.00</WorldPosition>
	 <Descr>Invercargille Crossing</Descr>
<ICAORegion>KK</ICAORegion>
	 <ICAOIdent>NZNV</ICAOIdent>
 </ATCWaypoint>
 <ATCWaypoint id="WallaceTWN">
	 <ATCWaypointType>User</ATCWaypointType>
	 <WorldPosition>S46° 19' 34.70",E168° 17' 01.56",+000000.00</WorldPosition>
	 <Descr>Wallace Township</Descr>
<ICAORegion>KK</ICAORegion>
	 <ICAOIdent>WallaceTWN</ICAOIdent>
 </ATCWaypoint>
 <ATCWaypoint id="Winton">
	 <ATCWaypointType>User</ATCWaypointType>
	 <WorldPosition>S46° 7' 08.19",E168° 18' 22.52",+000000.00</WorldPosition>
	 <Descr>Winton Racetrack</Descr>
<ICAORegion>KK</ICAORegion>
	 <ICAOIdent>Winton</ICAOIdent>
 </ATCWaypoint>
 <ATCWaypoint id="NZCB">
	 <ATCWaypointType>Airport</ATCWaypointType>
	 <WorldPosition>S46° 2' 27.29",E168° 18' 41.98",+000252.00</WorldPosition>
	 <ICAO>
		 <ICAOIdent>NZCB</ICAOIdent>
	 </ICAO>
 </ATCWaypoint>
</FlightPlan.FlightPlan>
</SimBase.Document>

It's been saved with PlanG but was missing <ICAORegion> and <ICAOIdent> entries on export to FSX-native flightplan format which I later added manually showing "KK" as the region identifier (<ICAORegion>) and names of waypoints under <ICAOIdent> entries. This didn't help either. I then tried to change "KK" to "NZ" (since my flight was not in US but in New Zealand) thinking it would help AS2012 to properly recognize the region of waypoints... To no avail yet - the only IDs shown are departure and arrival airports!

So, may I kindly request the AS2012 team to sort this out for me? Thank you very much!!!

Regards,

Victor Quebec

August 15, 201213 yr

Try this...

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="Windows-1252"?>

<SimBase.Document Type="AceXML" version="1,0">

<Descr>AceXML Document</Descr>

<FlightPlan.FlightPlan>

<RouteType>LowAlt</RouteType>

<DepartureName>Ryans Creek</DepartureName>

<DestinationName>Centre Bush</DestinationName>

</AppVersion>

<ATCWaypointType>Airport</ATCWaypointType>

<ICAO>

</ICAO>

</ATCWaypoint>