Flight Plan Troubles

[jetsmell 45]

I fill out my flight plan between two well-known airports and then I click ok, but there's a pop up that reads; The following characters are invalid for file names <>:/\1?*. This prevents me from filing a flight plan.

[aeronauta 66]

jetsmell very little info you provide ... can you please give some more detail..

Jorge

[pracines 823]

I remember having an issue with an airport that has a proper name associated with it and it had a "/" separating the names - when I removed that backslash the planner accepted the format 

[b1bmsgt 206]

9 hours ago, pracines said:

I remember having an issue with an airport that has a proper name associated with it and it had a "/" separating the names - when I removed that backslash the planner accepted the format 

Exactly. Some of the airport names in P3D have these characters in them. Just remove the offending characters in the file name and you will be good to go.

 

Russ

[Bill Griffith 160]

That is an annoyance for sure.  The default seems to be to put those characters in the name so you have to remove them.    Been there, it is a pain.

 

Bill

[b1bmsgt 206]

53 minutes ago, Bill Griffith said:

That is an annoyance for sure.  The default seems to be to put those characters in the name so you have to remove them.    Been there, it is a pain.

 

Bill

Yeah, but it is what it is, I guess. Whoever was in charge of entering the airport names didn't think about it too much...

 

Russ

[Bill Griffith 160]

13 minutes ago, b1bmsgt said:

Yeah, but it is what it is, I guess. Whoever was in charge of entering the airport names didn't think about it too much...

 

Russ

That is my feeling too. 

 

Bill

[vgbaron 3,495]

Actually, in some earlier versions it made no difference. A version or two ago LM made some adjustments to how the flightplans were parsed - not allowing certain characters was one of the changes. Fortunately there are very few "bad" names comparatively but it is still annoying.

Vic