Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler - DVA Route Plotter is not working for a while!

Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler | Airline Operations | DVA Route Plotter is not working for a while!

DVA5223
Captain, B747-400
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Joined on November 16 2007
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"BirdMan"
New York, NY USA

355 legs, 991.9 hours
293 legs, 866.6 hours online
288 legs, 831.2 hours ACARS
195 legs, 514.3 hours event

Posted onPost created on November 01 2008 11:13 ET by Faisal Nahian

Anyone aware of the Route Plotter problem? I've been trying make a plan by it last couple of days but it doesn't work. I used to make plan by it and it was great! mad

Faisal Nahian

Captain, B747-400

DVA3787
Senior Captain, CRJ-200
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Joined on December 01 2006
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"Small planes don't make small brains"
Western Europe

277 legs, 515.9 hours
204 legs, 397.0 hours online
244 legs, 456.2 hours ACARS
39 legs, 80.6 hours event

Posted onPost created on November 02 2008 01:08 ET by Mark Salter

Neither is the map of routes. Luke quotes in an earlier post:
"... I suspect it's a Google Maps API issue, but there's a fix being tracked in the Issue Tracker."

Mark Salter

Senior Captain, CRJ-200

DVA6518
First Officer, B737-800

Joined on September 12 2008

Midwestern United States

7 legs, 24.5 hours
7 legs, 24.5 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on November 06 2008 22:41 ET by Tony Gomez

I used the Route Plotter today and it seemed to be working with respect to developing a flight plan, which showed correctly on the map. I saved the flight plan from the Route Plotter and loaded it into FSX for DVA Flight 403 from Dallas-Fort Worth to Atlanta. When I printed the flight plan from FSX there were no frequencies for any of the VORs, which I thought was odd. When I checked the flight plan on the GPS unit it showed all the waypoints in the flight plan. However, after taking off runway 35L ATC put me on a course of 270 until I reached FL120 and then told me to turn left to 150 and “resume own navigation.” After leaving Dallas’ Bravo airspace I attempted to intercept the Belcher (EIC) VOR since I was using the Dallas Eight Departure SID but ATC kept telling me to “expedite your turn to 150” and wouldn’t left me follow the flight plan. Once I passed the coast and well into the Gulf of Mexico I figured the flight plan file I loaded from the Route Plotter must have been corrupted since it wasn’t following the plan at all. I think a bit of debugging is in order.

Tony Gomez

First Officer, B737-800

DVA043
Senior Captain, MD-11
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"Col. Panic"
Marietta, GA

2,326 legs, 9,362.8 hours
240 legs, 553.9 hours online
1,984 legs, 8,155.9 hours ACARS
75 legs, 196.3 hours event
2,362 legs, 9,497.7 hours total
91 legs dispatched, 66.4 hours

Posted onPost created on November 06 2008 23:33 ET by Luke Kolin

I'm not sure what the issue is - compatibility with FS' lobotimized ATC isn't guaranteed or even sought.

Cheers!

Luke Kolin

Senior Captain, MD-11

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