Cannot resume interrupted LNM Flight plan in MSFS 2020

[Jakeness53]

In LNM, under Tools/Options/Startup and Updates, I have "Load last used flight plan" checked. Then, after creating a simple 3-leg flight plan and exporting it to MSFS, I launch the flight sim and load the LNM flight plan and begin my flight. I complete the first leg and then exit the sim with the intent of returning to resume the flight later. I've seen online advice saying how LNM automatically saves the progress of a flight plan when exited. However, when I do return later and relaunch LNM, it does reload that last used flight plan but it displays it without the progress I've made. Then, when I relaunch the flight sim and load that flight plan, sure enough it has me back at the beginning and I have to start over. What steps am I missing?   

[albar965]

15 hours ago, Jakeness53 said:

What steps am I missing?   

Progress (i.e. the Magenta line and flight plan leg) is not saved between restarts. But LNM should quickly jump back to the active leg when flying.

Alex

[Jakeness53]

5 hours ago, albar965 said:

Progress (i.e. the Magenta line and flight plan leg) is not saved between restarts. But LNM should quickly jump back to the active leg when flying.

Alex

Yes, as you suggest, LNM does do that. I had assumed incorrectly that LNM would automatically drop me into the next active leg when I resumed the flight plan in the sim. However, the workaround I've found is in the sim -- not in LNM: When I reload the LNM flight plan there, the entire plan is shown with Departure airport and Destination airport. As you know, each of these points has a dropdown menu with the various arrival/departure points along that flight plan available. I simply select the new departure point which is the beginning of the next leg, and the sim places my aircraft there, ready to take off. LNM, meanwhile, proceeds to jump to that point along with me. All good. Thanks for your post.

[Jakeness53]

Update to above posting: I actually cannot resume my LNM flght plan in the sim, as I described above. Back in LNM, once I completed the first leg of the flight, I saved the flight plan as an LNMPLN file, hoping the sim would later allow me to load it. That would have put my aircraft on the waypoint runway at the next stage of the flight. However, the sim only recognizes and loads PLN files and not LNMPLN files. In this instance, the only file I could load was the original complete flight plan in PLN form. The sim drop-down menu showing this full flight plan did not have any waypoints showing this time. So I had to zoom in on the sim map (showing the full flight plan) and click on the waypoint airport manually as the new "Departure". This tedious, but certainly doable. I still don't know how to work with LNM and MSFS 2020 together to allow me to resume an established flight in the sim without all the above manipulations. Any advice would be appreciated.

[albar965]

12 hours ago, Jakeness53 said:

I actually cannot resume my LNM flght plan in the sim, as I described above.

This is a problem of the sim and not LNM.

 

12 hours ago, Jakeness53 said:

I saved the flight plan as an LNMPLN file, hoping the sim would later allow me to load it. That would have put my aircraft on the waypoint runway at the next stage of the flight. However, the sim only recognizes and loads PLN files and not LNMPLN files.

Yes. This is obvious and  clearly stated in the manual: https://www.littlenavmap.org/manuals/littlenavmap/release/latest/en/FLIGHTPLANFMT.html#little-navmap-lnmpln-format :

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The LNMPLN format is only understood by Little Navmap. Do not try to load it into simulators or add-ons.

Consider exported flight plan files as disposable since almost all export formats have limitations resulting in data loss. Remember that you can always restore them by loading the original LNMPLN file and exporting again.

You can also reload the PLN file into LNM by just using "File" -> "Open Flight Plan" if you do not want to save to LNMPLN.

 

12 hours ago, Jakeness53 said:

I still don't know how to work with LNM and MSFS 2020 together to allow me to resume an established flight in the sim without all the above manipulations. Any advice would be appreciated.

Create a plan. Save it as LNMPLN to keep features unsupported by PLN. Export it as PLN for MSFS. Load it in MSFS. Connect. Fly. 🤷‍♂️

See tutorial here: https://www.littlenavmap.org/manuals/littlenavmap/release/latest/en/TUTORIALS.html
and here about the MSFS 2020 export: https://www.littlenavmap.org/manuals/littlenavmap/release/latest/en/MENUS.html#export-as-pln-export-flight-plan-as-msfs-2020-pln

 

Alex

 

[Jakeness53]

4 hours ago, albar965 said:

This is a problem of the sim and not LNM....

...Create a plan. Save it as LNMPLN to keep features unsupported by PLN. Export it as PLN for MSFS. Load it in MSFS. Connect. Fly. 🤷‍♂️

Alex

 

Thank you Alex, I knew of MSFS limitations and now I've added this one. I will proceed with tinkering with flight plans manually in the sim as best I can, with my LNMPLN files as dependable backups.

~John