Create flight plan in charts and move flight plan to SimBrief

Charts General
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I would like to be able to create a flight plan using charts and copy the way points (think of sky typing or sky writing) to SimBrief to create an OPF
I have read. In the forums that (type route) was a work around .However I can not find said (type route button)

Simply put I would start out at KSEA fly to a waypoint then create way points in the charts app by tapping on the chart this shows lat long add it flight plan.
My question is how do I get the way point lay, long cordnates to SimBrief.
Thank you,

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Hi,

Here is a flight with a coordinate waypoint. Press the button in the top right corner to enter text edit mode.

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Then copy the route string:

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OR use the Export > Copy to Clipboard feature:

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And paste it in SimBrief:

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Regards,

Stephen

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Under the Flights tab I have the route I selected the pen in the upper right hand corner, however on the left side I do not have export button only general and option. What am I missing?

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Hmmm,

In Charts Desktop Settings, check you have the latest Charts Version 8.3.0 Build 6336412403

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You might check if the Export button appears in Charts Cloud

In any event you can use the mouse to select the flight plan text string, press CTRL-C to copy, and CTRL-V to paste into SimBrief.

Cheers
Ian

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Ok I do have the most current version
On my ipad the export button is not on the ipad but is on my PC.

I have been building my flight plans on my iPad and that is where Simbrief is too! On my desktop (PC) only have chartsivon, no icon for Simbrief.

I copied the flight coordinates to a file that saved to a folder under documents as a .pln
How do I get the .pln into Simbrief?

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Ah, for Charts iPad please see No export function in Safari or Chrome and Charts App on iPad?.

There isn’t currently a direct export from Charts into SimBrief. As I mentioned above you can copy and paste the flight string between them. You will need to create a plan in SimBrief with the departure and arrival airport, then paste the flight string into the Route Box between the departure and arrival airports.

Cheers
Ian

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Ian thank you for you reply after doing some more digging and using the desktop I was able to get this flight plan created in charts on the desktop copy and paste into the route section on Simbrief and then up load it to my 787-9
I did run into one issue and that had to do with the Microsoft cloud
My 5 gigs of storage was full it said.
And the only way to get this to work was to increase my iCloud storage.
Does that make any sense to you?
I do not know why that is.
Win 11
Thank you
Lane,

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Hi Lane,

You are welcome. Glad it is resolved.

I try to avoid using Microsoft OneDrive for that reason. I prefer to download to and execute from my local disks.

Cheers
Ian