Hi all,

 

I am considering getting Wilco's A330/A340 collection in the near future and want to do some trans-atlantic flights with as much realism as possible.

 

One thing which has always niggled me with FSX though is the flight routing across the atlantic. <_<

 

Basically my question initially is: is there any way to add something to FSX so that the stock flight planner recognises NATs and routes aircraft through them properly with correct (default) ATC recognition etc.? I have tried this: nat_waypoints.zip, but it appeared to do absolutely nothing to the sim. I am thinking it would only work with an external flight planner? What about natv40.zip?

 

I should add I have FSX Acceleration (SP1 + SP2).

 

My second question is: If I purchased an external flight planner which used the NATs correctly could it also still work within the stock FSX flight plan format, i.e. would it still be compatible with the stock ATC procedures and the stock kneeboard flight planner etc.? I only ask this because I'm not a big fan of using external programs which make the internal FSX features redundant, since I get on so well otherwise with the FSX navigation features etc. (maybe it's because I'm not quite a pro though!) :P

 

Thanks in advance guys

I have no idea if its possible to do it with the default planner, but its definitely possible to use external route generators like FSBuild, just enter the correct waypoints. FSBuild is capable of exporting to the default FSX file format, as well as most other formats. However, the default ATC wouldnt be able to handle a cross atlantic flight properly, as it knowns nothing about oceanic procedures and somehow think that the atlantic is a radar environment.

Thanks for the reply wims80,

 

I think I will definitely look into an external flight planner, but I was hoping someone might be able to validate the fact that the above files mentioned would work with the stock FSX flight planner somehow, since I don't really want to fork out for an external flight planner if only to use NATs which those files supposedly provide for stock FSX anyway. :unsure: