Just wondering if it is possible to create a flight plan flying westbound say from the US to Japan via a great circle route. Does FS Nav or FS Build have this option?

>Just wondering if it is possible to create a flight plan>flying westbound say from the US to Japan via a great circle>route. Does FS Nav or FS Build have this option?I'm sure that they do have this option but I just use the default flight planner. Select GPS, as opposed to VOR to VOR routing. R-

I've never tried it in FSBuild. I've always used airways-PACOTS the Pacific version of NAT.Tim

Just done my first transatlantic flight - the Level-D 767 allows flights to be saved with its complex panel, so I don't have to do it in one sitting!I used FSNavigator and got what looked like the correct route: from Heathrow up to Liverpool, across Northern Ireland, across the pond via Gander, and down the east coast of Canada into Newark.Is that a Great Circle? Seems like the route the real planes fly.From the UK, the Flight Simulator flight planner routes you down to the south of Iberia before sending you off across the Atlantic. I know that isn't right!

HelloI am using Airplan recently reviewed here at Avsim, according to the manual a straight line on the Airplan map equates to a great circle route so setting up a great circle route should be easy.From the manual2.2 Main MapThe main map is a Lambertian Conformal Conic Projection centered on the Coordinates shown just to the right of the map. This map uses the same type of projection used for Sectional and WAC charts, so a straight line on this map is a great circle route. This type of projection shows a non-distorted view of the earth, so features at high latitude are not distorted the way that they are on Mercator projections. I am still finding my way around this flightplanner but so far for the price it looks promising, i found myself needing an external planner after upgrading to AsV in order to have the correct textures loaded by AsV before flightsim is started, so far i am pleased with Airplan.http://forums.avsim.net/user_files/123509.jpg

FSBuild will handle GCR planning.Enter the departure and destination airports.Click on the PM button.Once the planning mode screen updates, you'll now have a GCR button right above the PM button. Click it.A great cirle route fills the route table.Go to the Build Options menu at the top and make sure "Build from Route waypoint Table/Grid" is selected.Click PM button to exit planning mode. Build button is now active. Click the build button to finalize the flight plan using the cruise altitude you want.Note that the Name column will show the closest latlon, but the flight plan will contain the precise great circle path. If you don't select "Build from Route waypoint Table/Grid", then the route will select the latlon intersections and your flight plan will be a stairstep path.Hope this helps.Bruce

Thanks I will try FSBuild, went away from it when I tried to plan a route VHHH to RCTP and it planned a route alright... 11,000+ miles!! around the other side of the globe! Not sure what went wrong there. Plus the nav data is really out of date.

>> Plus the nav data is really out of date.Check out the FSBuild forum at www.fsbuild.com.The AIRAC data is current through 5.08 and Ernie has also released a beta to work with the PMDG 747. No performance files yet for the PMDG 747, but I read on the PMDG support forum that someone was working on it.As for the nav points that are way out of line, that happens occasionally when two navaids have the same abbreviation. FSBuild selects the first one in the data file that it finds. The easy fix is to just manually select an intersection name in the vicinity of where the flight path goes astray and delete the 11,000+ waypoint from the plan listing. Rebuild the plan and all is fine. :-)Bruce

Checkout this site http://www.natroutes.glideslope.de/ it displays updated North Atlantic Tracks. If your using a flightplanner like FSNav just copy the lat/long into your flightplan and away you go.Dave FisherCYYZP4 Prescott 3.2e 478p 800mhz 1mg CPUP4P800S Asus Motherboard1.0 gig PC3200 DDR RAM 400MHZGeforce Ti 4200/128Maxtor 40 Gig ATA 133 HD x2WDC WD800 80 Gig HDhttp://www.precisionmanuals.com/images/forum/ng_driver.jpghttp://fs2crew.com/linepilot.jpg

>Just wondering if it is possible to create a flight plan>flying westbound say from the US to Japan via a great circle>route. Does FS Nav or FS Build have this option?http://gc.kls2.com/Plan a route going any direction,or clear around the World.Great site...David