Error when loading FSX Flightplans

[Hagi]

I got some problems with loading or selecting an FSX flightplan.

I create my FSX flightplans with FS Commander 8.5.

When I'm trying to load any FSX flightplan like "EDDFEDDT.PLN", i get the error message "The give file [...] is not a valid XML-file. Are you sure that this file is a flightplan created by FSX?"

 

Yes, I am sure, because FSX ist reading it perfectly fine.

 

Maybe you should correct this.

[aivlasoft]

Hagi,

 

not everything that can be READ by FSX must be a real FSX flight plan. As far as I know the FSC 8.5 is creating pure ascii-files, like FS9 is doing. Since FSX is able to read FS9 flight plans you might not recognize that it's not a real FSX flight plan.

 

A flight plan that has been created and then saved by FSX is always saved as an XML-file.

 

The workaround to use FS9 flight plans in EFB is as follows:

- open flightplan in FSX flight planner

- save the loaded flight plan by the FSX flight planner to get a valid XML file

- open the flightplan in EFB

 

Hope this helps.

[Hagi]

Thanks, you are right! I'm sorry, and thank's for the work-around.

Maybe there is a chance, that ascii-PLNs are supported with the next version?

 

FSCommander creates XML Files optionally. But their format is slightly different than the FSX native one. So EFB is doing nothing when trying to select an FSC XML file.

[Guenseli]

I bump up this old one, hoping if there's a kind of solution?

 

I know that the "fault" is on FSCs side, but honestly I don't think they would change anything...

 

Any chance to solve that integration?

 

thanks very much!

[aivlasoft]

With one of the next version it's planned to open a programming interface so a programmer can write a so called plug-in for a flightplan reader/writer.