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# Flightplans

## What are flightplans?

A flightplan is just a list of flightlines, and each flightline consists of a list of waypoints. Flightlines with static height can contain of just 2 waypoints (beginnning and end), whereas terrain-following flightlines ususally consist of waypoints spaced at an even interval.

SpatialExplorer can import and manage multiple flightplans at the same time. 

## How to import a flightplan

Flightplans can be created using <https://flightplanner.phoenixlidar.com>, Topoflight Planner or simply by drawing and exporting paths/lines (LineStrings in KML terminology) in Google Earth.

To open a flightplan in SpatialExplorer v6, ensure the project panel is visible (Windows->Project), then select Flightplans in the tree view and click the file-open button at the bottom. In SpatialExplorer v7, just use the normal File->Open way of opening files.

![Flightplans section in the project panel before loading a flightplan](/files/-MkOqZlSE_LmqZajWspZ)

Select the KML or KMZ file to import, and use the latest WGS84 realization to import (EPSG 1156). If asked, select "Flightplan", not "Geometry".

![](/files/-MkOqyhXmPh8AjPfqTrP)

Above dialog allows importing only specific KML-folders, and also allows filtering the geometry type. Select the folder(s) containing the flightline's LineStrings, and leave the import geometry types at LineStrings. Press OK.

![](/files/-MkOr5Z4yVTaOqDwGTVX)

The flightplan has now been imported:

![](/files/-MkOrM1_0kzAjokOcGYq)