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In Multiplayer is it possible to plan a flight with waypoints and then have the aircraft follow that plan??

[glow=yellow,2,300]YES[/glow], and [glow=yellow,2,300]NO[/glow]. You can plan a flight with the flight planner as you normaly would (if you want you can make it an IFR flight plan for later use, but IFR won't do you any good during multiplayer cause ATC doesn't run during multiplayer). Now heres the [glow=yellow,2,300]Yes[/glow] part, if your hosting a session before you load the flight make sure that in the advanced options section, make sure that, Players can pause their session is checked.Then after the flight loads when you click the fly now button, most likely you will be on the active runway when you spawn. All you have to do is press the Alt key to bring out the menu bar, click on Flights to roll out that menu and click open Flight planner and load your flight ( if you picked a gate or parking spot, or fuel box to start at) than make sure you choose Yes, when prompted to move your aircraft to the departure airport, and you'll be good to go. just make sure to bring up your kneeboard and make sure that flight plan is loaded, if not just click the nav button and the plan should show. Now the [glow=yellow,2,300]NO[/glow] part is if you join a session and the host has choosen to shut that option off, than your on your own and the best you can do is go direct using the GPS. Hope this helps you good luck have fun!

Hi, sorry to jump on this thread.

I dont know if this applies to none acceleration installs of fsx: on the mountain flying task, the pre flight briefing says the flight path is loaded into the gps, but when I display the GPS there is no path shown for the flight.

Do you have to load the flight plan some other way before starting the task/mission?



regards

Steve

[glow=yellow,2,300]YES[/glow], and [glow=yellow,2,300]NO[/glow]. You can plan a flight with the flight planner as you normaly would (if you want you can make it an IFR flight plan for later use, but IFR won't do you any good during multiplayer cause ATC doesn't run during multiplayer). Now heres the [glow=yellow,2,300]Yes[/glow] part, if your hosting a session before you load the flight make sure that in the advanced options section, make sure that, Players can pause their session is checked.Then after the flight loads when you click the fly now button, most likely you will be on the active runway when you spawn. All you have to do is press the Alt key to bring out the menu bar, click on Flights to roll out that menu and click open Flight planner and load your flight ( if you picked a gate or parking spot, or fuel box to start at) than make sure you choose Yes, when prompted to move your aircraft to the departure airport, and you'll be good to go. just make sure to bring up your kneeboard and make sure that flight plan is loaded, if not just click the nav button and the plan should show. Now the [glow=yellow,2,300]NO[/glow] part is if you join a session and the host has choosen to shut that option off, than your on your own and the best you can do is go direct using the GPS. Hope this helps you good luck have fun!

Thanks I will give it a try when I set up tonight.

JT

Hi, sorry to jump on this thread.

I dont know if this applies to none acceleration installs of fsx: on the mountain flying task, the pre flight briefing says the flight path is loaded into the gps, but when I display the GPS there is no path shown for the flight.

Do you have to load the flight plan some other way before starting the task/mission?



regards

Steve

take a glance at your NAV/GPS switch to see if it is indeed set to GPS.   

Hi Capt,

when i display the gps as a seperate instrument it doesn't show a flight path.

What I did'nt mention but will be obvious to you now with my question is this flight is done in the cessna single prop/skyhawk hence no mfd to change between nav/gps display.

regards

Steve