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Help me decode flight plans?

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Hello,I just got the KMIA -> EDDF flight plan from flightaware.com and its as followsVKZ BR66V ZFP GRATX B646 DEENO LAZEY NATZ KENUK UL739 GAPLI UN20 SAM UM140 DVR UL9 KONAN UL607 SPI UT180 DITEL T180 OSMAX OSMAX1Wwhat does this exactly mean? say if I was to put it in the FMC on pmdg's route... how would I do it? which is VIA, which is TO? I dont even see the airports listed on that FP (so you can choose the rw u wanna use etc)help is greatly appreciated, thx!

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here is another one with less stuff...this is from KMIA to KATLHEDLY ORL J81 VQQ CANUK3so how is this put in? only via I see here is j81, how would I Put this in?ah ok, so I put this in on fsbuild and anything that doesnt have the via (j81 and w/e) becomes Direct... I didnt know airlines use direct much?so how about that long flight? are they all direct? lolok well I just tried entering 'canuk3' and it says not in database for PMDG 738 :(

Hi... I'm not an expert, so my explanation may require further clarification (or corrections?) by someone more qualified, but anyway, here's what I know of FPs...They usually start with the SID... in the case of your KMIA-EDDF flight, there's none in the flightplan... SID usually "look like" a couple of letters followed by a number... for example, Miami's "Souby" departure will be indicated by SOUBY4 ... then you have the waypoints and airways... for example GRATX B646 DEENO is from GRATX to DEENO via B646...Finally, it ends with the STAR... in the case of your MIA-FRA flight it is OSMAX1W and in the case of your MIA-ATL flight it is CANUK3... You usually enter SIDs and STARs in the arr-dep page of the FMC...One more thing... in your KMIA-EDDF flightplan you have NATZ ... NAT means North Atlantic Track ... these are trans-atlantic routes which are updated daily... in the case of your flightplan (if it's a flight that crossed the Atlantic on June 1st between 1 am and 8 am (GMT), then NATZ is: LAZEY 3460N (=34

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