What do you guys do to get ready for a long distance flight as far as flight planning goes? It's not hard for me to find a plan on flightaware or vroute if I'm doing a 2 hour flight, but longer distance flights are proving to be an issue.  I was going to do IAH-OMDB, but I can't find a route that works on 1304.

What do you guys do to get ready for a long distance flight as far as flight planning goes? It's not hard for me to find a plan on flightaware or vroute if I'm doing a 2 hour flight, but longer distance flights are proving to be an issue.  I was going to do IAH-OMDB, but I can't find a route that works on 1304.

 

i use 2 sites mainly: http://rfinder.asalink.net/free/ and http://www.edi-gla.co.uk/fpl/search.php

 

using this I have found a route for you;

KIAH DCT PEPBI V477 BLTWY J33 FUZ J58 SPS J168 LAA J20 HGO V263 LIMEX V611 CYS J13 COUTS J516 YEV NCA23 ADREW NCA80 LISKI G912 BEKMI R351 LURET G7 GIKSI B954 PETAG W27 NOR R200 LUNEP R202 NASDA G56 TINRI A299 URG A370 AFGAN G775 ASB A117 RIKOP A419 DARAX M318 SERSA DCT OMDB

 

Another option

 

LFK6.LIT J131 PXV J29 DJB J545 YVO RR23 MT N352E YDP 5954N 6145N 6236N 6325N KEF G2 ES R2 NF 6301N FLO P607 NEBSI P607 NOTAR R58 TU R11 UK R374 TUMIT G476 MASOL T242 NALEM R114 BA G118 ER B947 GUSLI R11 BT R661 DULAV UL125 ZAJ UL124 TULGU L124 SAV UP574 SYZ G666 ORSAR R784 PEBAT B416 DESDI.DESD6A  /1454

 

Fsbuild auto given on the 1305 Airac.

 

Cheers,

Thanks guys.

 

I prefered to use rfinder but I've tried to venture away from them since they no longer include sids or stars in their flight plans. Not sure why...

 

On another note, how do you like fsbuild?

http://flightaware.com/analysis/route.rvt?origin=KIAH&destination=OMDB

http://flightaware.com/analysis/route.rvt?origin=KIAH&destination=OMDB

That's where I pulled my FP from. "ELD3 ELD KM33K KI48O KC69U SYR KB03E YQX NATX ATSUR" didn't work. Kept giving me "waypoint not found" or something along those lines when I was trying to enter KM33K.

Ah, that's what you mean about flightaware.com when you say "... proving to be an issue."  I interpreted as you could not find a route in flightaware.com for long haul type of flights.  

 

1.  Not all flight plans on flightware.com are complete. In the case of "ELD3 ELD KM33K KI48O KC69U SYR KB03E YQX NATX ATSUR" it only goes from KIAH across the Atlantic on NATX to ATSUR.  The segment from there to OMDB is missing.  

 

2.  When you say "Kept giving me "waypoint not found"..." regarding KM33K, do you mean the FSX flight planner?  If so, it could be because the waypoint was created after FSX was released and thus not in FSX's internals.  One way to use flight plans with these unrecognizable waypoints in FSX is to produce the flight plan using another tool besides the FSX flight planner.  One of those is SimRoutes.com.  There you can use its "Generate Routes" feature, enter the route, and then export as a FSX flight plan.  SimRoutes.com is more likely to recognize these points since their navigational information is more current than default FSX.  A second option is to go here and update your FSX navigational database, which I suggest either way.  This update may solve the waypoint-not-found problem with the FSX flight planner.  

 

Two other sources of flight plans vroutes and vataware.com.  Vroutes has a freeware client problem you download and use to search for routes, and Vataware captures all the routes used by VATSIM pilots.  For example, doing a Vatware Citypair Search shows 10 flights between KIAH-OMDB.  The most recent used:

 

ELD3 ELD KM33K KI48O KC69U SYR KB87C TOPPS VIXUN LOGSU 4950N 5140N 5230N 5220N LIMRI XETBO CRK EVRIN UL607 MATUG RASPU UZ660 ROKEM UZ650 BERVA UM748 TEGRI UL605 BULEN L605 RIXEN UA17 BAG UL614 GEM UW73 DYB UP975 SIDAD R784 ORSAR DESDI DESD6C/30L

 

Hope this helps.  

  

 

 

Also unless I'm mistaken the entering of NAT tracks is something of a tricky business in FMCs and can result in a error message. I usually take a completed route and enter it by hand, that way if a point doesn't work or something I only lose that point, not the entire saved flight plan.

Also unless I'm mistaken the entering of NAT tracks is something of a tricky business in FMCs and can result in a error message. I usually take a completed route and enter it by hand, that way if a point doesn't work or something I only lose that point, not the entire saved flight plan.

That works too.  As an alternative, you can import the route into the FMC as a company route, then review it, leg by leg, for correctness.  For discontinuities, etc, you can correct in the FMC without loosing the entire route.  This saves the labor and the likelihood of introducing errors when entering each point manually.  But, some people, prefer to enter manually because it makes it more immersive and fun.  

Hopefully one of these months PFPX gets released and then it's one stop shopping for all your flight planning needs

 

 

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