Yeah, I've experienced all that. Sometimes the parking spots won't even line up right and it starts me on a runway (started ... on a runway). So I usually have to go back and check to make sure I'm in a spot once I'm in the sim. Fortunately, so far, changing a parking spot doesn't seem to break the sim like changing a runway.

@@MSFSFlightPlans So basically if I want to start ready to go on a runway (in the Sim), should I NOT select a starting point in LNM (only a departure airport), then in the export options, ONLY click save (ie. don't select a starting point in that LNM export dialogue box 4:08), then when I load up the SIM, the G1000 shouldn't be confused with multiple paths from the airport departure area? I'm trying to nail down a repeatable procedure for having IFR flight plans that I've prepared in LNM, then export to MSFS, where both the Sim and the G1000 closely match what I planned in LNM. So far...the results are all over the place ;)

Ah, okay, I see what you're saying ... So what I would do is go ahead and pick a parking spot as your "departure" location at the airport, that should at least get you to where you can export it to MSFS as a .pln file without that dialogue box (which may be messing with the transfer). For the actual flight path, I usually pull it from the runway icon (that circle with the line in it) which will be the default starting point if you don't pick a starting runway ... and I drag it over to the midpoint of my departure runway so the NAV will pick up on the leg. The first leg will just be the one going from the icon to the runway, the second leg will be your intial departure runway heading. By the time you get in the air, it should be tracking that second one just fine. Once you get into the sim, that's when you'll switch from the parking spot to your departure runway. I just did it about 10 times on the flight I'm editing right now, it shouldn't mess with the rest of your plan if you do that. AND it will get you on the right runway with the plane already started. Let me know if it works.

@@MSFSFlightPlans Good suggestions there thanks. I followed your instructions and selecting a parking spot in LNM made the export dialogue box NOT appear (so I thought I was having a win). Loaded the .pln into FS2020 (which indeed had the parking spot to start on) - I simply changed that to the active runway. But when I'm ready in the plane, and look at my G1000 flight plan, there's two "V" shaped lines leaving from the airport; one going direct from the airport to the IAF, and the other following the USR waypoints to the IAF. I then take off and it does follow the USR waypoints in AP, but when it gets to the IAF it keeps flying over it and ignores the approach path turn from the IAF. The flight plan on the G1000 just has a tiny pink line before the first leg of the RNAV approach. I've tried this multiple times and the only way I can get a clean plan to appear on the G1000 is to manually program the RNAV approach into the G1000 (by clicking "select approach") - then that makes the 'V' dual paths disappear and it forms a single clean path to the IAF from the Airport. I'll keep trying to get some consistency. (PS - this is a short flight from Brisbane (AU) to the Sunshine Coast: YBBN - YBSU (RNAV Y 321 approach) - departing from YBBN rwy 01L.

Hmmm, that does sound odd. I usually draw my plans to the transition waypoint if I'm shooting a proper procedure for approach and then rely on the avionics to alter the plan when I get close enough to activate the plan ... in other words, I won't try to map the procedure into LNM. What plane are you flying? I'll see if I can replicate the flight so I can follow what my system is doing with it.

Glad it was helpful!

We did one near the area on a Welsh castles tour, but not through the loop itself.

It is Mapbox, and it's been a while since I've installed it, so I don't recall if they asked for a card or not up front ... but I don't think they did. And they've never charged me for anything up to this point. Or, I should say, they've never charged me more than once if they did hit me up front. I know that because the card I would've used expired shortly after. 🤔

@@MSFSFlightPlans Thanks! They must have changed it. You can't bypass the credit card info. to create a free account now.

Did they give any indication of what the charge would be, or when it would be triggered? I should probably make an announcement about that as a lot of people as asking about the sattelite images.

@@MSFSFlightPlansI didn’t look too much at what’s paid versus free because I didn’t want to provide my CC # just to access satellite maps in LNM.

Gotcha- I'll see if I can get some info. Thanks!

Yep. Should load up on everything with any of the standard suite of Garmin avionics. Not so sure about the big jets with FMCs.

That's the only way I know how to do it, but I haven't tried what you're describing either ... so that doesn't necessarily mean it can't be done. The following link takes you to the LNM manual page for export formats and extensions. I didn't see that one as an option, but if you rummage around this part of the guide, I reckon that's where it would tell you. Let me know if you work it out! www.littlenavmap.org/manuals/littlenavmap/release/2.8/en/FLIGHTPLANFMT.html#flight-plan-export-formats

@@MSFSFlightPlans A quick look over that list in the LNM manual and a lack of .FLT suggests it might not be possible. I cant find a reference to .FLT anywhere else either. I think that the file format is probably generated internally by MSFS when you build a plan in the SIM itself. Oh well, it was worth asking.