Yes, this is a pretty big drawback. The "sim world" uses the pln files or things that can be converted to pln. This has it's own unique format. Meaning you can't make a flight plan from your simulator, or with VFR Flight or Plan-G. You have to do it with a notepad and use their format. That just doesn't work for me.
I also tried just putting these in to 'add to' a panel. When they are "in" the panel.cfg, the regular gps is overridden and doesn't work. You lose all your flight planning UNLESS you use that system.
Why in the world didn't they make it work on "pln" like the rest of the world does. Such a beautiful program. I can't use it for what we are doing at RTMM. The waypoints for all of the locations is really cool ... but we can do that now (if we decide to). We have so many of them, the names start getting confusing, so you'd need a list of them somewhere. Doing that, we could give each one its own waypoint using RTMxxx and we could handle 999 of them if we wanted to. I'm not sure it is worth the effort.
Somebody did a FINE job of putting that txt file together. And our thanks for that. I am going to put it up on the Here2There page for people who want to fly this way, but it basically doesn't work well for us. But folks should have the option. It is a beautiful tool ... just that one flaw is a game stopper for me. The $64 I spent on it is kind of a problem too. That's a lot for something that won't work for us.
Doug