Hi all,I've read through the requirements and I do not use any flight planners, infact I get real world routes from either here at Avsim or from flightaware.com My question is in RC do I have the ability to manually enter my routes? I wonder about this because I find "real world" routes to be the most realistic (obviously) and have not found a flight planner that I like and I'm not willing to buy a flight planner, so what are my options? I also use vRoute a lot too, but I don't think it is compatible.Thanks,Jeff

what format do you get the plans from avsim or flightaware?if you want to manually enter them, you can use fsx planner, if you want.i think super flight planner 4 has just been released, i'm not sure if it is free still. i would assume it isrc isn't a planner, i don't want it to be. i would be interested in what the format of the plans you are pulling from flightaware or avsim. i could see if there would be a way to read them directly with rc version 5but how will you load them into the fmc?jd

Thanks for your response jd, actually the way I do things is really simple, I'll explain. I hop on flightaware.com, type in my airport to see the different flights, pick one that I want to emulate, and simply write the flightplan on a piece of paper, for instance; (KTUS to KLAS) BURRO1 BBALL PXR J11 DRK TYSSN1 I then start up FS pick my favorite plane enter that plan into the FMC and I take off, nothing more nothing less. No extracting, no messing with flight planners, etc. So basically, I'm just wondering if I can just manually enter that into RC and take off? I don't want to bother with flight planners as I get mine real world. Hope that clarifies what I'm talking about.Thanks,Jeff

I can answer about flight aware. It is just a text strip of the waypoints using copy/paste to get them into a planner that supports the syntax, or manually entering them into the FS planner.Here's a paste of a route you just might be familiar with (TRS 831 from KATL to KMSP): TRS831 Airtran Airways, Inc. "Citrus" (previously Valujet "Critter")Aircraft Boeing 737-700 (twin-jet) (B737/Q)Origin Hartsfield-Jackson Intl (KATL)Destination Minneapolis/St Paul Intl (KMSP) >>>>>>>Route COKEM4 CARPT BNA ENL IOW ALO KASPR3<<<<<<<<<<<

We both replied at nearly the same time :)I know you don't want to mess with planners but I dfo use the payware FSBUILD and just paste the flightaware text strip into its route window plus origin and destination and then build. FSBUILD does have available at no charge updated AIRACS on its web site. If you do not care about fuel planning, etc., you can just paste in the route information, maybe have to adjust a SID or STAR number, and it can export to both FS and probably your FMC so RC and your FMC have the same plan.There may be other planners that can do this to.Anyway my reply was mainly to my boss JD to show him the format from flightaware.com (which you nicely posted about the same time).

to answer your question, then, no. you can't enter your flight plan manuallyjd