On 5/26/2026 at 12:57 PM, AJZip2 said:

Can someone point me to where any usable documentation exists to load a flight plan because whatever I do presently (both files in the Routes folder etc etc) simply doesn't work and all I find are very contradictory videos from other folks who clearly have had similar issues.

Finally sussed it...and this may affect others.

Also, while I was trying to fly the MD-82 in MSFS2024, I'm guessing the same thing can happen in MSFS2020.

Scenario: Simply NOTHING described in any of the tutorials, pages and pages of Leonardo documentation, videos or AI searches worked in terms of the simple task of creating a Simbrief flight plan, loading it into the correct folder in the correct form and then trying to find it in the Maddog's EFB. Honestly, in the past three days I've spent probably 15-20 hours at the screen researching and trying all sorts of iterations and permutations to try to get to see the flight plan on the aircraft's EFB. I was at the very edge of 'Life's too short. Task is just too hard' cutting my losses and deleting the Maddog from both sims.

Culprit: Microsoft. Don't you just love 'em. In one of their recent 'security' updates, they switched on a facility that I did not ask for and did not want. And, to my knowledge, they didn't tell me either. In order to 'enhance your experience and let you access all of your documents and chosen files from any of your devices seamlessly and efficiently' they installed and turned ON OneDrive. So ALL of my Documents on my desktop were being duplicated into a different set of Documents folders 'in the cloud'. Including the Maddog X Routes folders!!! And this confuses the 'so many words not allowed that it is not even worth trying' out of the Leonardo file structure of the sim. So yes, you have a folder that contains your Routes but you also have a duplicate on the cloud. And - for reasons I don't understand - that was the one that the Maddog was looking for (and being on the cloud has no access to).

Action: I've disabled OneDrive on my Desktop in its entirety and deleted all related folders it had created

Result: Immediately, the flight plans were visible on the Maddog's EFB.

Happy that I can fly the Maddog again but resent losing 3 days of my life starting to doubt the Maddog's systems and software before finally bottoming it as simply MS's "meddling"!!

On 5/27/2026 at 6:06 PM, AJZip2 said:

Finally sussed it...and this may affect others.

Also, while I was trying to fly the MD-82 in MSFS2024, I'm guessing the same thing can happen in MSFS2020.

Scenario: Simply NOTHING described in any of the tutorials, pages and pages of Leonardo documentation, videos or AI searches worked in terms of the simple task of creating a Simbrief flight plan, loading it into the correct folder in the correct form and then trying to find it in the Maddog's EFB. Honestly, in the past three days I've spent probably 15-20 hours at the screen researching and trying all sorts of iterations and permutations to try to get to see the flight plan on the aircraft's EFB. I was at the very edge of 'Life's too short. Task is just too hard' cutting my losses and deleting the Maddog from both sims.

Culprit: Microsoft. Don't you just love 'em. In one of their recent 'security' updates, they switched on a facility that I did not ask for and did not want. And, to my knowledge, they didn't tell me either. In order to 'enhance your experience and let you access all of your documents and chosen files from any of your devices seamlessly and efficiently' they installed and turned ON OneDrive. So ALL of my Documents on my desktop were being duplicated into a different set of Documents folders 'in the cloud'. Including the Maddog X Routes folders!!! And this confuses the 'so many words not allowed that it is not even worth trying' out of the Leonardo file structure of the sim. So yes, you have a folder that contains your Routes but you also have a duplicate on the cloud. And - for reasons I don't understand - that was the one that the Maddog was looking for (and being on the cloud has no access to).

Action: I've disabled OneDrive on my Desktop in its entirety and deleted all related folders it had created

Result: Immediately, the flight plans were visible on the Maddog's EFB.

Happy that I can fly the Maddog again but resent losing 3 days of my life starting to doubt the Maddog's systems and software before finally bottoming it as simply MS's "meddling"!!

Wow, very helpful. Thanks for sharing :)