Originally Posted by
2StgTurbine
It can't be sent an hour before departure. Even if the dispatcher has finished the flight plan, it won't release it to us until exactly an hour. My Flight Manager never has any of my flights. I have to manually enter the flight number every time. And it's always late. I can send myself the HTML flight plan on MiCrew, but then it takes about 10 minutes for that flight plan to show up in Flight Manager.
My experience is the opposite. I’ve not had to put in the flight number. About an hour out I go into flight manager and it’s there.