February 7, 200620 yr Hi People,Since i bought FS 2004, whenever i load a flightplan from Europe to US and back - the FS gives me a weird route through Greenland, Canada and then to US. I think this problem is well known. any new Developments on this issue and how can i change this.Thanks Marek LOWW
February 7, 200620 yr Hi,That's called the 'great circle' route and it is the shortest route between 2 points on a sphere (i.e. earth).Almost all transatlantic routes from (northern) Europe to US are going (more or less) via Ireland/Island-Greenland-Canada. Location: Vleuten, The Netherlands, 17.3dme SPL 108.40 | Simulator: FS2024 System: AMD 7800X3D - Gigabyte X670 - RTX 4090 - 64GB DDR5 - 2 x 2TB SSD - 32" 1440p Display - Windows 11 Pro
February 7, 200620 yr I know but try a flight plan out - it will route you almost to Anchorage and then back to KJFK e.gCheck it out and reply please
February 7, 200620 yr Author It's most definitely not a great circle route as you have discovered!The problem is that there are no permanent airways across the Atlantic and hence none in the Flight Sim database. In real life, however, there are published North Atlantic tracks which change daily.When you ask flight sim to find a high altitude airways route across the Atlantic it follows the airways in its database, resulting in the strange routing you've seen. To get around this you can either get Flight Sim to assign a GPS routing which will take you directly to your destination, or you can use a third party flight planner, such as FSBuild, which holds details of the North Atlantic Tracks and can export the route to flight sim. Matthew Spedding
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