After several hours of head scratching I have now discovered that x-plane 11 uses a different format (.fml) for flight plans which explains why whenever I tried to load a plan into the fms I got the error ROUTE NOT FOUND.

I have a number of plans in the .fms format which were mainly copied over from x-plane to the the x-plane 11 output/fms plans folder although some were included in a package I downloaded from somewhere.

Is there an online flight planner that saves in the .fml format or does it mean having to manually enter a plan into the fms and then save it to get the right format for future use?

Thanks

 

Spoiler

 

I just loaded an fms file saved from Plan G into X-Plane 11.10b8, all my other flight plans are in fms format and they loaded into the Piper Arrow OK.

Edited November 20, 20178 yr by wb5okj
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Thanks, that's very strange mine definitely won't load into the default 737 or a couple of other aircraft I have and the following article https://developer.x-plane.com/?article=flightplan-files-v11-fms-file-format quotes the change.

I have now tried a couple of plans and get the same error. I am wondering whether this is due to my having the UFMC plugin enabled although I thought this only applied to the eadt X737.

At a bit of an impass as to what to do next as I haven't yet got a handle on how to manually enter a route into the fms and especially how to deal with disconnects.