I am using SkyDemon to plan a VFR flight to be performed in Microsoft Flight Simulator. One of the most important features for me is to set safe altitutes for each waypoint to circumvent entering restricted airspace.

I can export the flightplan created in SkyDemon to .fpl and use an online tool to convert this into the .pln format, which I can import into MSFS as well as an application called Pilot2ATC.

However, I have now figured out that the .fpl file created by SkyVector does not contain the altitute information of the waypoints, but only lat and long information. Example:

<waypoint>
  <identifier>MISC1</identifier>
  <type>USER WAYPOINT</type>
  <country-code />
  <lat>50.264950</lat>
  <lon>12.951460</lon>
  <comment />
</waypoint>

Therefore I have to re-enter the altitute information for each waypoint in Pilot2ATC, which is a lot of work.

Not sure if this is a limitation of the garmin fpl format, but I found this the only export option in SkyDemon that I could convert to anything I can import to MSFS and Pilot2ATC.

Does anyone have an idea how I can get the full flight plan from SkyDemon over to the other applications?

According to the garmin XSD schema, its possible to include the waypoint elevation like this:

    <waypoint>
      <identifier>MISC1</identifier>
      <type>USER WAYPOINT</type>
      <country-code />
      <lat>51.509290</lat>
      <lon>8.374783</lon>
      <elevation>2000</elevation>
      <comment />
    </waypoint>

"Elevation (in meters) of the waypoint. This value is ignored by panel mount devices."
https://www8.garmin.com/xmlschemas/FlightPlanv1.xsd

However it does not say if it's supposed to indicate only ground elevation or also waypoint height in the air. Also upon testing I found that this information does not get carried over to the .pln or .fms flightplans when converted with the web tool.