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Hi Thomas.

Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately, FS Commander does not recognise the compiled "adventure" files produced by ProFlight 2000.

I have even tried to rename those files, by removing the PFE prefix, but FS Commander then just says that it is not a valid flight plan?

Of course, I could just use FS Commander to produce a flight plan anyway, but I have "read" that FS Commander flight plans are not very good, and even then ProFlight2000 even "adjusts" those flight plans with varying altitudes and "dropped" waypoints!

I don't understand what is happening? PFE does state that some waypoints that are too close together "may" be dropped, but it does drop waypoints that are up to 50nm apart! It is not consistent! It also writes waypoints that do not then actually show up in FS Commander, only the route shows, but the waypoint data is missing!

Of course there is always the long workaround, and that would be to manually input an FsBuild flight plan into both FS Commander, and the FMC, but there is no way of manually inputting a flight plan into PFE! And that would be an awful lot of typing to do!

Thanks for your suggestion and input though. Much appreciated.

Regards.

Terry

Terry, the reason I did not reply to your last email was due to the fact that you went to great lengths explaining why you had given up with PFE and suggesting I should also!


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Hi Dave.

Please accept my apologies for my outburst in my email to you.

I got frustrated with PFE, and very unfairly took out my anger on you.

It was wrong of me.

Regards.

Terry

Terry2905 wrote:

Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately, FS Commander does not recognise the compiled "adventure" files produced by ProFlight 2000.

I have even tried to rename those files, by removing the PFE prefix, but FS Commander then just says that it is not a valid flight plan?

The .adv file is not a flight plan, renaming it does not help.
But PF2000 generates a .gps file listing the waypoints it uses in the .adv file, and PFE can use this .gps file to modify the original flight plan to match the one PF2000 uses.
(I'm not sure about altitudes though, they are not included in the .gps file and maybe these are not included in the .pln files)
See the thread "I can not use flight plan converted".

No apology needed Terry, just explaining why I didn't feel the need to reply.

Adding to what Thomas has explained you can easily change the altitudes in PFE to match whatever fp you want and the fp created via the"adjust" option can be loaded into your fmc, or whatever you use.

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