I've noticed that if you are crossing either the atlantic or the pacific all of the routes seem to take the absolute longest possible way around. Is this the way they do it in real life? Or are people just copying FSX flights into vroute?

What do you mean by the longest way around?

I've noticed that if you are crossing either the atlantic or the pacific all of the routes seem to take the absolute longest possible way around. Is this the way they do it in real life? Or are people just copying FSX flights into vroute?

Vroute seems to offer realistc great circle routes from EGLL to KJFK for example. What do you mean by "longest possible"?

Vroute seems to offer realistc great circle routes from EGLL to KJFK for example. What do you mean by "longest possible"?

I fully agree with you. I tried an FSC-generated route and an FSX-generated route from EDAM to KJFK and their routes took me way past South of the Iberian peninsula before swinging back up North approaching the Eastern Seaboard from the South,something I have never experienced in a real flight between Europe and the Eastern Seaboard.And it totalled up to over 6000k miles.Not quite right.So,I switched to VRoute which gave me the correct waypoints all the way from EHAM-KJFK,and the flight was covered more or less in exactly the real-world KLM MD-11 timings.More like it.

Maybe something to do with not using north atlantic tracks properly. Flightaware is the best place as it uses actual filed flightplans from real flights. I've always used http://rfinder.asalink.net/free/ but recently it seems pretty buggy and not calculating the best routes for me :(