Ok, I haven't tried this on FS9 to see how it compares, but I just tried putting together a flight plan from KATL-->EGKK, IFR, High altitude airways... The route that it returned back is SERIOUSLY retarded! It has me flying down to about N9.5, W31.5 before swinging back north to head to the UK! I tried an alternative where I tried doing a flight from KJFK-->EGKK with the same setup and it has me routing all the way over towards the NE most edge of Alaska before swinging eastwards.Now, I'm guessing some of this wierdness has to do with 3D-->2D map projections, but then why does the GPS routing take more appropriate paths like up the eastern seaboard, over Nova Scotia, Greenland, Iceland, and the Scottland?Has anyone else noticed wierdness like this? Is this a bug, or is this normal? Did FS9 do this sort of wierd stuff?--2002cbr600f4i

Nothing wrong there IMO. Thats the route everyone takes in reality.Don't forget the world is round and that, my freind is the shortest route.

The flight planner has been buggy since the days of FS2002!

If you simply want the most serious FS planner available, get FS-Build2 by Ernie Alston. Admititdly, all new-comers find the user-interface pretty weird at first, but everyone swears by it, as do I. He also released v2.3 this morning that exports to both FS9 and FSX simultaniously in the proper plan formats. If you're flying the big-irons, trans-oceanic with proper NATS and PATS, there is no better tool.

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>Nothing wrong there IMO. Thats the route everyone takes in>reality.>>Don't forget the world is round and that, my freind is the>shortest route.The REAL world route is NE from Atlanta towards Gander and then on NAT tracks to the Shannon area then airways to Strumble for ATC to Gatwick. No way do you go south - ever!!

If you really want a laugh then start at Manchester (EGCC) and plan a route to Heathrow (EGLL) then follow ATC instructions!Since when has any flight been vectored from Birmingham (the HON VOR) east to o/h Stansted then round the back of London City for a 40 mile final for 27R/L????????!!!!!!!!!!!!

I don't think the generated route (KATL-->EGKK, IFR, High altitude airways) is correctly either. It doesn't look like a South Atlantic track. I would have thought the route would have gone up the coast and across near Greenland using a North Atlantic track. But who am I to blow against the wind. lol

>If you really want a laugh then start at Manchester (EGCC)>and plan a route to Heathrow (EGLL) then follow ATC>instructions!>>Since when has any flight been vectored from Birmingham (the>HON VOR) east to o/h Stansted then round the back of London>City for a 40 mile final for 27R/L????????!!!!!!!!!!!!When I used to live in Enfield, North London that was the route you could see most aircraft taking believe it or not.West to around Elstree, then east towards docklands and then west onto the '27' approach.

>I agree... FSBuild is tops in my book. Ernie's has done a>magnificant job!Does it have moving map capability (

FSBuild is a flight plan creation tool only which runs outside FS.It is THE superior flight planner, and can export flight plans to FS format, FSNav and most of the FMS payware.

Old news, and yes it's identically fouled up in FS2004.There is one waypoint in the south Atlantic which seems to be the gateway to Europe from the southern part of North America - and another on the Alaska / Canada border for the northern part of North America.In FS2002 - you would be sent to an intersection in northern Tunisia.The normal way to do a north Atlantic (north of the equator) without FSBuild or FSNav is to do Direct GPS, then add key waypoints by dragging the line and dropping it upon them.FSX does have the ability to create custom waypoints - by dragging and dropping the course line where you want it - useful because there are not NAT waypoints in the navigation database.This is one which I cannot comprehend why the ACES/MS team has not at least created a few sample tracks for the FlightPlanner to use.