In Game Flight Planning - Fuel Stops

[Leenaya]

Maybe I am missing something obvious, but I cant seem to get the flight planner to know I need to land for fuel. I am using the cessna 152, even though its super slow, to fly from Middle GA Regional to Rabbit Creek in Anchorage alaska. Obviously the plane cant fly 3100 miles on a tank of gas so I need to stop to refuel.

I planned out each stop by searching for the airport code and hitting add no problem. The problem is that when I look at the flight plan, it wants me to stay at 8500 feet the entire way to Alaska. Is the triip planner really not smart enough to know i added those "waypoints" as fuel stops?

For the time being I am just doing the trip in flight plan segments. Made it from KMCN to M12 just a bit ago. Not a perfectly first landing but I didnt explode. In the long run I would like to run the entire route in the same plan with refueling. Maybe its just not an option to plan that yet?

[Yokanuki]

Adding the airport code is no different that adding it as a VOR for the flight path, so yes, it's just getting logged as a navigational waypoint and nothing more.

Unfortunately FS2020 considers a flight from be from engine-start to engine-stop. If you need to do a fuel stop, or multiple stops even, you will need to plan, load, and compete each flight separately. Hopefully they will in the future expand it's operation, because I'm wanting to do similar flights to what you describe; even airlines have multi-stop flights with the same crew.

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Leenaya am sure they will get more things sorted out with the in game flight planner as time goes on but something I am now using and it's 100% free and amazing is SkyVector. It will show pretty much all the airports what services they have and also create a navlog for you.. It really is awesome



https://skyvector.com