I will say first off, that I do not enjoy putting in each and every way point for every single flight, especially if I decide not to ever use that flight again, is there something I can do to cut down the time of the tediousness of having to add a way point for every flight I do or do I just uninstall it if I don't want to do this?

Weird, that's one of the things I enjoy, to each their own though. First off, I would sign your full name per the forum forum rules here. 2nd, you could use a program like Vroute or FSbuild to just pick a route, third you could enter them by airway and drop a lot of data entry from your work load. Ever or never is a long time and I have done countless flights I never thought I would do again and always save my routes anyway, that way it's there and comes up automatically should I need it. As for "Do I just uninstall it if I don't want to do this?" Do you mean unsinstall the MD-11 because you want something less realistic like a default aircraft? If so then forget the earlier methods I mentioned and yes, do just that.

Its not that I want something less realistic, I just want to cut down on the time required to get in the air, and sorry about that, I keep forgetting that is a rule in this forum.Patrick Boynton

Hey Patrick,you can save every flight plan you enter into the FMS. So if you fly a lot on a certain route, you only need to enter the waypoints once and recall the flight plan from the FMS's memory for the next flights.Dan mentioned external route planning like FSBuild and vroute. Those programms will automatically create a flight plan for you and export it into the right format. The only thing you need to do is to enter your origin and destination into the FMS and it will show you all available saved flight plans for that route. That is the easiest and shortest method I know of.Of course as a pilot you would still go through all the waypoints and check that everything is in order. Sometimes the constraints are not correct and you need to change them manually.Do you use add-ons like AES or FSPassengers? If so, I suggest you set up the FMS while the passengers are boarding.That would be realistic and gives you something to do while sitting around. In short: Setting up the FMS correctly is part of the job and there is no way around it.If you do not enjoy modern airliners have a look at A2A Simulations's excellent Boeing 377 Stratocruiser. No FMS. In fact no computers at all. Only VORs and dead reckoning. Makes oceanic crossings and navigation in general more challenging. Since there is no FADEC or auto throttle you need to watch your engines constantly. It's a completely different experience.Regards

I do not know that this is less over all work if you only have a couple of waypoints to enter, but it is if you have a lot of waypoints to enter and it does cut down on the time to load the FMS. Also you can do this a day or two in advance if you know the route you want to fly.You can go to www.flightaware.com and join up, its free. Under pilot resouces you can enter a destination and arrival airport, this will give you a list of routes, pick one and copy it.Go to www.simroutes.com and click on the generate routes tab. Paste your flight plan into the blank white route box. Note that the route you got from flightaware usually had a sid and star, these are the first and last enteries of the flight plan, you need to delete those before you generate your route in simroutes because in the MD11 FMS you will add your own sid and stars.After you paste your route in the route box enter your departure and arrival airports and then hit the generate route button, save the plan as FS2006 (FSX). This usually wants to save as KDAL-KHOU as an examaple, I get rid of the dash and save as KDALKHOU because I had a problem with either the CS MD80 or the PMDG MD11 not liking the dash. Save the route to your My Documents\Flight Simulator X folder. In the MD11 FMS enter KDALKHOU as a company flight plan and all your waypoints are loaded, you just need to add your sid and star information.Rod Storer

+1 for flightaware, if you later want to get more into the routes I would also use runwayfinder.com. I now make all of my own routes with it for both low altitude Cessna flights as well as the heavies. Theres something fun about trying to manually create a flight plan and making it the best route possible, for both time and staying clear of others airspace. Should I still have part of a leg that goes through someones airspace I note it down to remember to call for transition and of course plane an alternate way around should they be under IFR at the time (happened to me last night). For me anyway, planning the route can be very fun.