Not sure why this is happening. I've always chose to start from parking in LNM and then setup my route and saved it. But for some reason recently, when I load the flightplan in MSFS it keeps putting me at the runway. And at airports with departure procedures, it's also choosing one of those for me as well, which I haven't put in my plan. 

Any idea why? This has never been a problem for me until the last week maybe.

This is a common problem with MSFS. 🤷‍♂️

1. First check if your LNM navdata and airports are in sync with the simulator. Install the Navigraph navdata update also in LNM if you have it installed in MSFS. Ignore this if you don't have the Navigraph update installed.
2. Reload the MSFS scenery library in LNM to be sure it is in sync.
3. "Select automatically" in menu "scenery library" -> Navigraph has to be checked.
4. DRM encrypted airports cause issues since the parking spots in LNM might not match the ones in the sim. You'll get a warning about these after loading.
5. Airports which do not improve stock airports but add new ones cause issues.
6. If all else fails you can still select parking from the dropdown list in MSFS. Changing anything on the map will reset the flight plan.

Alex

 

 

Thanks! I'll give all that a try later and see how it goes and report back. 

Still doing it. 

I did find something, however. If I setup a flight plan, starting from a parking spot, and just put it as direct to my destination it starts from the spot as expected. But, if I use the calculation window to calculate a route, then when I load it wants to start me at the runway and with a departure selected. I've always used this calculation option, so I have no idea what I've done to cause this.

pic of calc window, if that helps: https://imgur.com/a/dvait55 

Edit: also, changing the plan from IFR to VFR (via the dropdown in LNM in the Flight Plan window) and saving it then also starts me from parking and with no departure loaded. 

Edited August 25, 20241 yr by bahnzo

44 minutes ago, bahnzo said:

Edit: also, changing the plan from IFR to VFR (via the dropdown in LNM in the Flight Plan window) and saving it then also starts me from parking and with no departure loaded. 

MSFS is a bit picky about the IFR/VFR mode.
Do not use SID, STAR or approaches or anything with airways when building a VFR plan. You have to save the plan as IFR when using the calculation as in your screenshot.
You can use any direct-to waypoints, VOR or NDB though but not airways in VFR.

IFR plans should load fine mostly. 
 

Alex

43 minutes ago, albar965 said:

MSFS is a bit picky about the IFR/VFR mode.
Do not use SID, STAR or approaches or anything with airways when building a VFR plan. You have to save the plan as IFR when using the calculation as in your screenshot.
You can use any direct-to waypoints, VOR or NDB though but not airways in VFR.

IFR plans should load fine mostly. 
 

Alex

Yes, I'm not doing any of those, I only fly GA so I rarely need SID/STAR. 

I've changed something which is causing this. A broad search shows a couple people having similar issues but nothing solved. I opened the flight plan with notepad++ and can see in the xml it has a parking spot chosen, so what would cause MSFS to not want to load that? This only seems to happen at the larger airports (no addon scenery, KFNL is one example). Since it's auto adding departures, maybe that has something to do with it?

Nothing solved because it has to be solved by Asobo. They even cannot read their own plans. I have a few examples planned and saved in MSFS and they even cannot read these, their own.🤷‍♂️

You can paste the plan in a post here and I can give it a try. Maybe I can see something but I tried quite a few plans recently and could not reproduce the issues so far.

You saved the plan as IFR if MSFS is adding departures.

For VFR the column "Airway or procedure" in the LNM flight plan table has to empty for all waypoints. Using the flight plan calculation with airways will fill it and loading VFR will fail.

No idea what's going on there. No issues in all the other simulators. Only in MSFS it is a permanent ongoing problem.🙁

Alex

Yeah, I don't think this is a LNM thing. I was hoping maybe you or someone had seen this before and had an idea. MSFS (or an addon) is causing this. In the end, it's not a deal breaker as I can manually place the parking spot in MSFS. It's just annoying to have to do so. 

 

Thanks for taking a look.