Company Route trouble

[HollandBoy 0]

Hi Everyone,To start off my first post here, I have to say I just LOVE the NGX!When I started flightsimming, I flew the 737 nearly 9/10 flights. Then, I wanted to fly something else, just for a change.Now I've 'rediscovered' the 737 and boy do I like it. Anyways, I'd like to start using the company route feature of the FMC, rather then manually typing the sometimes lenghty routes.This is what I do, step by step, I hope it might just help. 1. I get myself a CFMU validated route from FlightPlanPro. ( CFMU because I only fly in Europe, and FlightPlanPro is freeware, go check it out on flightplanpro.eu!! )2. I go to Simroutes.com, click generate route, fill the form out and copy+paste the route in, and click 'Generate Route'3. I choose 'PMDG' from the dropdown menu and download the '.rte' file generated by Simroutes.com ( In my case it's called EHRDLEAL.rte )4. Since you need admin rights to place/move/edit something in the \FLIGHTPLANS\NGX map, I download the .rte file to my desktop, then I move it to \FLIGHTPLANS\NGX folder. I then start fsx, choose the 738 with Winglets, do my pre-flight checks ( While standing at EHRD/ Rotterdam ), align the IR's, and while they're busy, I start my FMC work.I arrive at the route-page, fill out my dep/arr/rwy/cs entries, and then I enter EHRDLEAL in the company route line. Before executing, I cross-check the route with the route I have in my OFP ( Operational Flight Plan ) which turns out to be completly different! It's like it mixed all of the waypoints and like it removed some of the waypoints too Any ideas on what could be causing this? Is this an error from Simroutes' side or from PMDG's? Thanks in advance,Stefan

[HollandBoy 0]

- Bump - Nobody?? :(

[Cristi_Neagu 10]

Try entering the route by hand into the FMC, save it, reload the aircraft, and then load the saved route. If it works, it something wrong with simroutes.com. If not, submit a ticket and let PMDG handle it.

[trisager 2]

I have not had any problems loading .rte files generated by vroute. What route gave you this problem?

[HollandBoy 0]

Finally some answers, thanks guys! 'Trisager, it's with every route, not just a particual one.. Cristi, if I did it that way, why would I want to make use of the co.route feature anyway? Thanks for the help and replies!

[Cristi_Neagu 10]

Cristi, if I did it that way, why would I want to make use of the co.route feature anyway?

1. You can always save flight plans to build you own database, and use the co route feature to load them from there.2. To see if the problem is with the plane or with simroutes. It's just once, for debug.

[HollandBoy 0]

Ok thanks Cristi. I'll try that, but keep in mind that I, just like in RL, use differents routes, as I get my routes from FlightPlanPro which validates the route it found at the CFMU validator. So I get different routes for the same flight each time. So building an own database won't work! ;-) I'll debug tonight, will let you know asap.Thanks again for helping, I appreciate it!Stefan

[N426T 0]

if you have vRoute try loading your flight plan there and saving to the PMDG database. If that works then it may be an issue with Simroutes. Jim Parish

[srcooke 22]

Stefan, Just tried a route which I had previously validated at CFMU and when you look at the 'Simroutes' processed result it clearly uses out of date airways. Personally I use FSBuild to generate known validated routes to various formats.

[HollandBoy 0]

Stephen, I'll look into it, maybe it's indeed something at Simroutes's side.Thanks!

[Aaron Buchanan 19]

I was going to recommend looking and comparing NAVDATA (ver.). If simroutes uses an older database then that could help explain the difference once it is inported into the CDU.

[HollandBoy 0]

Sorry for my late response guys, but Partition Magic screwed up my harddisk so I've reinstalled Vista ( after a LOT of hussles :S ) so I have to reconfigure and install everything again. I'll check the options hopefully tonight. Cheers,Stefan