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Easier way to handle flight plan .pln files in MSFS

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So I prefer to store my flight simulation flights and flight plan files in an easy to find location.  So I create folders near the root folder of my 1 TB d: drive.  I am now creating my flight plans at Skyvector, importing them into LittleNavMap, and then saving them as .pln files.  When I load a .pln file in MSFS it starts me in the following folder:

D:\WpSystem\S-1-5-21-4064563360-2683254180-3332666863-1001\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\

Certainly not easy to navigate to it to place my files there, and absolutely not what I want.  So using a trick learned from Reality XP I went to my own preferred folder, copied the full path (which is short).  Then I went to my Windows 10 desktop, right-clicked, selected New, then Shortcut, and pasted in that path to create that shortcut.  I then copied that shortcut from the Windows desktop back into that deeply buried "LocalState" folder.  Now in MSFS when I load a flight plan it looks like this and one click quickly gets me to my more convenient folder location.

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Edited by fppilot

Frank Patton
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