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Flight Planner For Trans Oceanic Flights

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Roadburner440

Charter Member 2010
Wasn't able to find but 16 topics with the search function by typing in Flight Planner so figured I'd post and ask. I am finally tired of the FSX in game flight planner. Everytime I try to do a trans-atlantic flight it routes me down the North American coast to what looks to me like a small island chain off the coast of Africa, and then up the African coast to Europe. I know this is adding at least 1,000 or so extra NM onto the flight plan, and no airline would accept that unless it was necessary for safety of flight reasons. So my question is I know Aerosoft has a flight planner, and there are a few others. I am not to knowledgable about them so was wondering what you have experienced with your own personal flight planners. Not necessarily looking for something perfect or flashy. Just want something that as long as the info is good I can add the waypoints and all myself. Thanks in advance for any help.
 
I use routefinder for all my flights, it provides route info that you can input straight into the FMC, and for transatlantic flights it provides up to date NATs (North Atlantic Tracks) However I dont have the time to fly that long so I havent tried it. I find it gives a better flightplan than stock FSX
 
Thanks for the input. After following the links, and doing a bit of research on my own I think I found an answer. I guess the North Atlantic Tracks change on a daily basis depending on weather and such. So I will just have to do some manual planning myself using charts and such. Better than going an extra 2,000nm like FS wants me to do though.
 
This flight planner get mentioned a lot here at SOH:

http://www.tasoftware.co.uk/planG.htm

I use it all the time, its my favorite.
You make and save the flight plan in Plan-G, and easily load it in FSX.
But I'm not sure if its what you are looking for... :kilroy:
Looks like it can plan high altitude routes, but I never use that feature.

But hey, it's free. Just need to register on their forum.
 
I found something to suite my needs. I guess I should have been specific on aircraft. Although I intend on using it for many different birds. At the moment I am using what I found with the B377 Strat from A2A. Also wanting something I could build plans for MD-11X, and the upcoming FlightSim Labs Concorde X. The program I found is FS Build (was 27 Euro= approx $36). So far it seems to meet the need I was looking for. Gives me a nice flight plan without routing me down to Africa. Cut me down from the 6,000+nm FSX had me at to a reasonable 3207nm which the 377 can handle. Plus it uses the static NAT, or it can use the current daily ones depending. Hopefully this thread can help someone else if they run into the same issue.

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