Deferred Is Autoload of Flightplan working

[zkiwi]

I have autoload flightsim flight plan enabled but ASFS does not load the current flight plan. I am sure it was working previously. Is it working for anyone?

 

[damian]

It should auto load the flight plan when ASFS is running when the flight plan is loaded in MSFS. If this isn’t working in a latest MSFS version please let us know details here or via ticket. Thanks!

 

[zkiwi]

Autoload flightplan was not working with ASFS 9243 and MSFS 2024 SU3. I downloaded and installed the open beta of ASFS and still not seeing the flightplan auto loading.

 

[damian]

And you did confirm ASFs is loaded and running before the flight plan is loaded in MSFS?

 

[zkiwi]

`Correct. ASFS loaded and running, waiting for simulator. load sim, create or load flightplan and no flight plan loaded in ASFS ( but weather is correct). I can load the plan manually and it works (gives me Vatsim stations for weather reporting instead of NOAA). I even tried starting sim first and then ASFS but still no auto load of flightplan.

 

[zkiwi]

After manual load of flightplan

 

[Daveo]

We need a log export here or on The Support Desk.

 

[justandrelee]

Hi AS Team

I'm having issues with loading my simbrief flight plan, it gets stuck there and i'll have to end the program.

 

[Daveo]

Hi AS Team

I'm having issues with loading my simbrief flight plan, it gets stuck there and i'll have to end the program.

The OP is using the newer Beta build and trying to autoload the MSFS flight plan and you are using the Official build with Simbrief.
2 totally different issues here.

 

[zkiwi]

Here you go

 

[jabloomf1230]

The confusion about this stems from Asobo changing the format of the PLN files from MSFS 2020 to 2024. One can't manually load a 2024 format PLN file in the latest beta, nor does the AS automatically load the flightplan from 2024, even if AS is started before the sim. For me at least, the SimBrief flightplan option works.

 

[Daveo]

Not sure if the latest AS beta(s) applies to the SU4 beta since SU4 is not Official.

Damian will need to confirm this

 

[damian]

Any new changes to FS integration via beta updates will be addressed post-MSFS SU update official. We're investigating potential auto-load issues in official versions with findings so far inconclusive.

 

[jabloomf1230]

I think that the issue of autoloading the flightplan is that for default MSFS 2024 aircraft, the active flightplan is only stored in memory and not a folder. For 3rd party aircraft, one should consult the documentation for the location of the subfolder, usually located somewhere off of ...Local State/. That's basically why I use SimBrief. However, AS should be able to load a stored MSFS 2024 PLN file manually.

 

[damian]

It’s a simconnect flight plan load event that points to the .pln loaded in sim. If they’ve recently changed this format or modified the event for su4 beta we’ll address that very soon, as possible.

 

[damian]

It has been confirmed there are a few problems with FS2024 current official through the latest beta.

- There is a known bug regarding the simconnect FlightPlanActivate functionality where it does not trigger a subscribed event or triggers at unexpected times, and when it does trigger, it, it does not contain the flight plan file name, thus we are unable to load it
- At startup of FS2024 there is a FlightPlanActivate trigger on an unused mission flight plan file (which does not exists, is corrupt, and or is in the wrong format)
- The design change in FS2024 using the EFB to load the flight plan does not automatically create and load .pln files, instead sending data through various other new functions and API (JS and/or WASM) which are not available to simconnect apps like the ASFS client.

Thus, there is no way to make this work reliably, at this time, even if manually loading a .pln in FS2024. Thus ASFS auto flight plan load is not currently supported in FS2024. We'll re-visit this on an ongoing basis. The state of the previous (and as documented, should be working) simconnect functionality is unknown at this time. With the known bugs/issues, we hope that the eventual fix of these will allow things to work or at least allow us to alter things to work appropriately.

In the mean time, we recommend that you use manual save/load features in the EFB flight planner and ASFS, or use SimBrief which supports autoloading outside of these FS2024 features/bugs.

 

[jabloomf1230]

Another option for those who don't use SimBrief but use LittleNavMap, one can copy the flight plan list from LNM and paste it into the dialog box in AS flight plan page.