Flight planning and ATC

[meimes]

In X-Plane 10, when I try to create a flight plan I enter departure and arrival ICAO (for now I want a just a point to point plan) and as I press "file" the game returns to cockpit whithout setting the plan since I tryed to load it in FMC and didn't find it.
Then I loaded a preset plan (downloades from x-plane.org) in order to ask for IFR clearence but ATC doesn't seem to recognize it, because the only option I can see in ATC is... again... "File ATC"
I'm sure to be missing something but I can't figure what. Saw the manual about it, for no light.
Thanks in advance for help
Walter

[jomni]

When you file a plan, it only tells ATC your plan. You still need to key in a plan yourself (or load) in your FMC.

Also make sure you got your frequencies right.
Start with Clearance to file. After that, you change your frequency to Ground to request Taxi... and so on.

Did clearance say anything about "runway change, etc."? That means you are not cleared (because other traffic are taking off first?) So you are stuck in the File Flightplan stage until you get cleared and handed over to Ground Control. This happens a lot and is very annoying. Tip is to reduce the number of AI but still sometimes doesn't work. I usually go ahead and take-off out of frutation and re-file the plane while in flight.