I should have been more thorough from the start!
The next step is what @Ian sent just above!
I would suggest the following flow:
Plan your flight as usual. Select your airports, procedures, waypoints etc. like you normally do! When you want to add a custom waypoint with precise, known coordinates, press the pen icon as shown by Ian.
This will show you the raw text version of your currently planned route! It will start with the ICAO code of your origin airport, followed by the runway and/or departure procedure identifier. It could look something like this:
KHIO/02 SCAPO7 SCAPO DCT DISCO DISCO4 CYYJ/LIDIS.R09-Z
In the above raw route, we have selected:
- KHIO as the origin airport
- Runway 02 as the departure runway
- SCAPO7 as departure
Then, we have planned on flying directly (DCT) to DISCO, from where we have planned the following:
- DISCO4 arrival
- RNAV Z RWY 09 approach
- CYYJ as arrival airport
Editing the route manually
Now, in order to add a custom waypoint to this route, you need to make a manual edit to that raw text.
Say for example that we want to add the Seattle space needle! You would need to add the following to the text, in the location that you want it: 473714N1222058W
Once you have made that change, the full route could look something like the below:
KHIO/02 SCAPO7 SCAPO DCT 473714N1222058W DCT DISCO DISCO4 CYYJ/LIDIS.R09-Z
This might be all you need. You have successfully added a custom coordinate-based waypoint to your route! If, however, you want to also give it a name (if it’s a landmark for example), keep reading!
Storing the waypoint with a custom name
What you can now do is right-click the pill in the route that contains your coordinates. This will allow you to create a new named user waypoint from those coordinates:
This menu can also be opened by hovering your mouse cursor over the pill and clicking the three dots that appear:
This should now open the following prompt, where you can enter your own name for the waypoint:
You can then also pick whether or not that waypoint should be available for any created flight, or if it should be unique to this one!
As the end result, you will have a specifically defined coordinate with a custom name. It will look something like this:
I hope that helps! Let me know if I can assist you further!
Kind Regards,
Malte