Altitude Assignment in AI Flightplans

[Thomas Gunn]

Hello Everyone,
I am new to the design of flight plans, so my question / problem is a rather elementary one. I am using AIFP 2.1.07 and I am experiencing the following problem. I can assign aircraft of my choice and they will fly my flight plans as I have designed them.

However they are not flying at the desired altitude. AIFP wants altitudes entered in FL format, eg 23000 becomes 230. My ai planes consistently fly somewhere in the 2100 to 2300 ft range. This is absolutely frustrating, any ideas???

I am in the process of designing a KC-135 refueling training mission that flies from KNTU to KMTN and return. The tankers transit several times over a period of six hours.

I am using FSXA. I should add that both MS and 3rd party AI fly at the correct altitudes.

[msm8378]

If I understand your post correctly your aircraft do not have enough time to climb to the desired altitude of 23000 feet due to the fact that it is only 174.1 statute miles between KNTU and KMTN.

I don't do a lot of ai flightplanning, but sounds like you will need to incorporate at least one waypoint to increase the time of flight and distance calculations that MSFS needs to achieve the desired parameters...

Mat

[Greg]

FL230 seems a little high indeed for a flight of only 150NM, but your aircraft should climb higher than 2300'.

I'm not familiar with AIFP as I write my flightplans manually in notepad, but is it possible you see 023 in the actual flightplan code instead of 230?