bobvan Posted July 8, 2015 Share Posted July 8, 2015 Is there any way to create a round robin IFR flight in FS2004 to arrive back at the take off departure field? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrzippy Posted July 8, 2015 Share Posted July 8, 2015 Will the Sim allow for a VFR flight for practicing touch and goes from the same airport? Will it not allow a departing and arrival airport to be the same for IFR, options greyed out? Still thinking about a new flightsim only computer! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwillmot Posted July 8, 2015 Share Posted July 8, 2015 Is there any good reason to believe it can't/won't? Isn't there a flight plan software package which will allow this to happen? [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiger1962 Posted July 8, 2015 Share Posted July 8, 2015 In FlightSim Commander 9.6 you can create a flightplan arriving at the departure airport/field, but you'd have to plot the en-route airports/fields as waypoints only. You'd have to set up the STAR/SID for each en-route airport on the FMC/GPS manually as you got to it. Tim Wright "The older I get, the better I was..." Xbox Series X, Asus Prime H510M-K, Intel Core i5-11400F 4.40GHz, 16Gb DDR4 3200, 2TB WD Black NVME SSD, 1TB Samsung SATA SSD NVidia RTX3060 Ti 8Gb, Logitech Flight Yoke System, CH Pro Pedals, Acer K272HL 27", Windows 11 Home x64 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobvan Posted October 11, 2015 Author Share Posted October 11, 2015 Thanks for any replies to this thread. I never did find a way to plan a round robin training flight in FS2004. Apparently they forgot to let you do that. It does not matter that much in VFR flight if you have FSNAV200. Just set up a round robin FSNAV flight and fly it. Actually it is not that unrealistic from real IFR flying. If you are out somewhere and want to file an IFR flight plan into some field, you can just air file it. It still would be nice just to be able to plan a round robin IFR flight. Thanks for any comments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColR1948 Posted October 11, 2015 Share Posted October 11, 2015 The only way I've ever done it to make a waypoint using an invisible airport, the aircraft flies to the waypoint does a TNG and comes back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old_wombat Posted October 12, 2015 Share Posted October 12, 2015 If you are prepared to do a little hacking with Wordpad, it is trivially simple to do with Wordpad. Your flight plans are in My Documents\Flight Simulator Files and have a .pln extension. If you associate them with Wordpad, you can edit them very simply. All the information you need is already there, it is simply a matter of rearraning it, and then adding the waypoints in between in reverse order. The rearranging is a matter of common sense. The keyword names are very intuitive and it is pretty obvious what you need to do. Steve from Murwilllumbah. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old_wombat Posted October 12, 2015 Share Posted October 12, 2015 For example... Here's a flight plan Sydney -> LAX [flightplan] AppVersion=9.1.40901 title=YSSY to LAX description=YSSY, LAX type=VFR routetype=3 cruising_altitude=52000 departure_id=YSSY, S33* 57.83', E151* 10.83', +000020.99 departure_position=34L destination_id=KLAX, N33* 56.50', W118* 24.75', +000020.00 departure_name=Kingsford Smith Intl destination_name=Los Angeles Intl waypoint.0=, YSSY, , YSSY, A, S33* 57.83', E151* 10.83', +000020.99, waypoint.1=YB, MQD, , MQD, V, S33* 6.50', E151* 8.36', +000830.00, waypoint.2=NW, MGA, , MGA, V, S22* 18.93', E166* 28.38', +000010.00, waypoint.3=NG, FU, , FU, V, S8* 31.37', E179* 11.98', +000009.00, waypoint.4=, PHNL, , PHNL, A, N21* 18.85', W157* 55.60', +000013.00, waypoint.5=, KLAX, , KLAX, A, N33* 56.50', W118* 24.75', +000020.00, And here it is converted to Sydney -> LAX -> Sydney: [flightplan] AppVersion=9.1.40901 title=YSSY to LAX and back description=YSSY, LAX type=VFR routetype=3 cruising_altitude=52000 departure_id=YSSY, S33* 57.83', E151* 10.83', +000020.99 departure_position=34L destination_id=YSSY, S33* 57.83', E151* 10.83', +000020.99 departure_name=Kingsford Smith Intl destination_name=Kingsford Smith Intl waypoint.0=, YSSY, , YSSY, A, S33* 57.83', E151* 10.83', +000020.99, waypoint.1=YB, MQD, , MQD, V, S33* 6.50', E151* 8.36', +000830.00, waypoint.2=NW, MGA, , MGA, V, S22* 18.93', E166* 28.38', +000010.00, waypoint.3=NG, FU, , FU, V, S8* 31.37', E179* 11.98', +000009.00, waypoint.4=, PHNL, , PHNL, A, N21* 18.85', W157* 55.60', +000013.00, waypoint.5=, KLAX, , KLAX, A, N33* 56.50', W118* 24.75', +000020.00, waypoint.6=, PHNL, , PHNL, A, N21* 18.85', W157* 55.60', +000013.00, waypoint.7=NG, FU, , FU, V, S8* 31.37', E179* 11.98', +000009.00, waypoint.8=NW, MGA, , MGA, V, S22* 18.93', E166* 28.38', +000010.00, waypoint.9=, YSSY, , YSSY, A, S33* 57.83', E151* 10.83', +000020.99, Steve from Murwilllumbah. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColR1948 Posted October 12, 2015 Share Posted October 12, 2015 I may have misunderstood, are you talking about creating an ai flightplan or one you fly yourself, my above post was for an ai plan sorry if I got it wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeandpatty Posted October 12, 2015 Share Posted October 12, 2015 If you want practice VFR or IFR approaches to the same runway, set yourself up in a flight so you are where you would want to start (initial approach fix, etc), hit PAUSE ,and save the flight at that point. Give it a name such as "KPWM DC-3 ILS". You can then reload it any time without having a flight plan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old_wombat Posted October 13, 2015 Share Posted October 13, 2015 This is for a fly-it-yourself flight plan. AFAICS, there was nothing about AI in the previous posts. Can't help you with AI, haven't tried it yet. Steve from Murwilllumbah. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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