Hi All,Question. When using flight planner of course you select the starting airfield along with your position (ie: gate) and the end location. My question is, if I've saved a flight at a base airport in front of a hanger (not a default gate)how do I create a flight plan that begins at the place where I saved the flight (my hanger) and not at a default gate.Thanks Blind Lemon

Get AFCAD221 from the Avsim library. Use it to create a parking space where you have your flight saved. Then, when using the flight planner, include that new parking spot for your startup location--it will now be showing in the menu bottom left in the flight planner page. That will also let you use the 'Go To" menu in FS9 to move from your default parking space/airport to the starting point of your new flight without having to SAVE a whole bunch of additional flights.Works just fine for me.HTH,Paul

I agree with Paul that AFCAD makes it much easier.I have a parking spot setup inside an open hanger at several airports so my GA aircraft can taxi straight out.But to answer your question, when you save a flight (not a flight plan) - your aircraft position is saved as a longitude / latitude - so whether the aircraft is in a parking spot on not doesn't matter.Also if you will check closly, you will see that flight plans are from a start location on a runway at the departure airport to a start location on a runway at the arrival airport. The parking spot is not part of the flight plan.If I read your message right, you would do better to open the flight, position your aircraft and then create a flight plan or load a saved flight plan; however, when the Sim ask you if you want to move your aircraft to the departure airport click NO.That will return you to exactly where you were before going to the Flight Planner.This is how you open an IFR flight plan or change your flight plan in the middle of a flight while flying.

Paul,Thanks for the tip, I'll give it a try.Blind Lemon

Reggie,Yes, you read my question exactly right and I like the idea of loading a pre-saved flight, then create a flight plan and click no when asked. I'll try that too.Blind Lemon

Reggie,I suggest you open a pln file with Notepad or Wordpad. Parking spots ARE/CAN BE part of the flight plan. It is shown as the variable departure_position=(menu location).When you select your airport, for the start of your plan, you can also select which parking spot you want to use from the lower left menu. That point IS listed in the pln file built in FS9. And it does NOT have to be a runway location. And you do not have to use a saved *flight* to do this. As I said, use the Go To menu, then open a SAVED flight plan that starts at that position or create one from there. Personally, I always use a previously created and saved flight plan. Much more realistic. Normal real world activity is check weather, plan a flight, file your plan, then go to the aircraft, preflight, and fly. And no flight ever starts at a runway location. Paul

I was referring to the waypoint data and the way FS uses it.Yes, a parking spot can be saved in a flight plan as the departure point, if it is a predefined position on the airport selectable in the Go To Airports window.The original question specifically asked if he could start from a point on the airport which is not a defined parking spot.The answer is yes, and as I said, it's not best way to, but an acceptable way.