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DVA9186
Captain, MD-88
Joined on November 07 2010
"keep the dirty side down"
Williamstown, WV USA
69 legs, 106.0 hours
67 legs,
102.1 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
December 21 2011 20:23 ET by Ed Fisher
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I have tried to use the route plotter on DVA site but am not able to get the routes loaded to FSX. I have been unable to find a number of the reporting sites on the FSX map plus it is not friendly to use. Is there a place to get more info on the DVA route plotter or is there a good freeware that will allow one to create a route and load directly to FSX? Thanks, Ed
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DVA7357
Captain, B737-800
OLP
Joined on May 22 2009
DVA Five-Year Anniversary
"With your eyes turned skyward"
Northeastern United States
90 legs, 155.2 hours
38 legs,
51.3 hours online
86 legs,
150.9 hours ACARS
2 legs,
2.8 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
December 21 2011 20:34 ET by Matthew McAlpine
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Ed, there are a lot out there, specifically simroutes.com. The website allows you to file directly with VATSIM, and also download into your FS9, FSX folders along with many payware aircraft FLTPLN folders and SB and FSINN.
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DVA043
Senior Captain, MD-11
OLP
Joined on June 10 2001
Event Half Century Club
Online Double Century Club
50 State Club
DVA Twenty-Year Anniversary
Everett 1500 Club
Bi-Millennium Club
Four Million Mile Club
"Col. Panic"
Marietta, GA
2,314 legs, 9,320.7 hours
240 legs,
553.9 hours online
1,972 legs,
8,113.8 hours ACARS
75 legs,
196.3 hours event
2,350 legs, 9,455.6 hours total
91 legs dispatched, 66.4
hours
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Posted onPost created on
December 21 2011 20:43 ET by Luke Kolin
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What specific problems are you having with the DVA route plotter? It's pretty expected that in your terminal procedures you won't have the waypoints on the FSX map - FSX's nav database is a half decade out of date.
Cheers!
Luke KolinSenior Captain, MD-11
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DVA7357
Captain, B737-800
OLP
Joined on May 22 2009
DVA Five-Year Anniversary
"With your eyes turned skyward"
Northeastern United States
90 legs, 155.2 hours
38 legs,
51.3 hours online
86 legs,
150.9 hours ACARS
2 legs,
2.8 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
December 21 2011 20:53 ET by Matthew McAlpine
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Sir, I know that sometimes when I go to the Route Planner on the site it doesn't populate the drop down DEP and DEST fields. I can enter the ICAO codes, but nothing will pop up and the drop downs are blank. Happens on occasion.
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DVA9186
Captain, MD-88
Joined on November 07 2010
"keep the dirty side down"
Williamstown, WV USA
69 legs, 106.0 hours
67 legs,
102.1 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
December 21 2011 20:59 ET by Ed Fisher
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Thanks, I looked at simroutes. If I choose to dnld to FSX does it load it to a flight plan that I can then use in the GPS?
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DVA9186
Captain, MD-88
Joined on November 07 2010
"keep the dirty side down"
Williamstown, WV USA
69 legs, 106.0 hours
67 legs,
102.1 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
December 21 2011 21:04 ET by Ed Fisher
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Luke, I guess I do not know how to load the route after I create it into FSX. I have looked for help info but have not found anything. Example, I want to fly from city x to city x using standard star and sid. I know the route but do not know how to load it into a flight plan on FSX. The ms fsx program does not give the proper reporting point when you use the basic flight planner in the program. Editing the basic flight planner on the map is a pain. Ed
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DVA9186
Captain, MD-88
Joined on November 07 2010
"keep the dirty side down"
Williamstown, WV USA
69 legs, 106.0 hours
67 legs,
102.1 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
December 21 2011 21:07 ET by Ed Fisher
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Not to be repedative but in simroutes kcmh to katl it shows correct route usin FALCN7 with all reporting points. I want to load that into FSX flight planner. I guess I am not real good on the program issues. I do not fly vatsim for that reason. Ed
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DVA7357
Captain, B737-800
OLP
Joined on May 22 2009
DVA Five-Year Anniversary
"With your eyes turned skyward"
Northeastern United States
90 legs, 155.2 hours
38 legs,
51.3 hours online
86 legs,
150.9 hours ACARS
2 legs,
2.8 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
December 21 2011 21:14 ET by Matthew McAlpine
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Ed, when you DL the fltpln from simroutes into FSX it creates the fltplan in the sim and loads the waypoints, navaids etc into your gps. The only issues is, as stated before, FSX is pretty out dated as far as updated navaids. Sometimes you'll get a route with all the right waypoints and sometimes youll get some that are missing one or two. Google "free AIRAC update FSX" a guy by the name of mitch compiled one last year (yea, outdated now) but some upgrade is better than none.
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DVA7357
Captain, B737-800
OLP
Joined on May 22 2009
DVA Five-Year Anniversary
"With your eyes turned skyward"
Northeastern United States
90 legs, 155.2 hours
38 legs,
51.3 hours online
86 legs,
150.9 hours ACARS
2 legs,
2.8 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
December 21 2011 21:16 ET by Matthew McAlpine
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And to add, once you load the flight plan onto FSX your GPS will autopopulate with what waypoints it has with reference to what the original flightplan from simroutes listed.
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DVA9186
Captain, MD-88
Joined on November 07 2010
"keep the dirty side down"
Williamstown, WV USA
69 legs, 106.0 hours
67 legs,
102.1 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
December 21 2011 21:20 ET by Ed Fisher
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Thanks much, I have been trying to search around on the fsx map to find waypoints which of course half are not there. Knowledge is everything. It is easier to load flight plans and fly my Piper Archer than to use FSX. Ed
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DVA7357
Captain, B737-800
OLP
Joined on May 22 2009
DVA Five-Year Anniversary
"With your eyes turned skyward"
Northeastern United States
90 legs, 155.2 hours
38 legs,
51.3 hours online
86 legs,
150.9 hours ACARS
2 legs,
2.8 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
December 21 2011 21:26 ET by Matthew McAlpine
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Don't be discouraged. You said knowledge is everything, I've learned that in the sim world that google is the key to that knowledge. There are 100's probably even thousands of sim enthusiast websites out there with enough information to make your head explode. Believe me, I started using just the standard GPS direct or VOR to VOR and gradually learned some tricks as far as trying to keep up with the AIRAC cycles and the like
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AFV397
Captain, A350-900
Joined on November 22 2010
International Tourist
Diplomatic Mission
Robert Taylor AF Memorial Club
GVA 10 Year Anniversary
Online Five Hundred Club
Jurassic Jets Century Club
Million Mile Club
"Isaiah 40:31"
Cherthala, Kerala India
752 legs, 2,398.6 hours
728 legs,
2,299.0 hours online
748 legs,
2,386.7 hours ACARS
2 legs,
14.1 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
December 22 2011 00:22 ET by Cyriac Jose
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| There are FS9 Database updates available in the net. Im sure its available for FSX too. That will ensure you got all the waypoints.
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DVA1336
First Officer, B757-200
Joined on September 18 2003
Southeastern United States
13 legs, 14.8 hours
5 legs,
7.5 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
December 22 2011 09:26 ET by Phil Mitchell
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| Do you have a link to any of these FS9 updates?
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DVA4865
Captain, B777-200
OLP
Joined on August 16 2007
Online Quadruple Century Club
50 State Club
Million Mile Club
Globetrotter
Nine Century Club
Luton, United Kingdom
900 legs, 2,814.8 hours
479 legs,
1,781.1 hours online
802 legs,
2,414.9 hours ACARS
52 legs,
124.4 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
December 22 2011 11:47 ET by Jermaine Hamilton
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http://www.aero.sors.fr/navaids.html
See bottom of page for FS9, download and follow instuctions.
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DVA043
Senior Captain, MD-11
OLP
Joined on June 10 2001
Event Half Century Club
Online Double Century Club
50 State Club
DVA Twenty-Year Anniversary
Everett 1500 Club
Bi-Millennium Club
Four Million Mile Club
"Col. Panic"
Marietta, GA
2,314 legs, 9,320.7 hours
240 legs,
553.9 hours online
1,972 legs,
8,113.8 hours ACARS
75 legs,
196.3 hours event
2,350 legs, 9,455.6 hours total
91 legs dispatched, 66.4
hours
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Posted onPost created on
December 22 2011 12:37 ET by Luke Kolin
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Just to help me out, why do people feel the need to adjust the FS9 or FSX navigation databases? Are you using the FS route plotter after you get a route from the site? I'm trying to figure out the use case here.
Cheers!
Luke KolinSenior Captain, MD-11
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DVA9186
Captain, MD-88
Joined on November 07 2010
"keep the dirty side down"
Williamstown, WV USA
69 legs, 106.0 hours
67 legs,
102.1 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
December 22 2011 14:59 ET by Ed Fisher
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Luke, for me it is to be able to load current or at least close current stars and sids. I don't have an FMC because I am using fleet planes. I was not able to find many of the intersections because FSX database is outdated. I understand there are FMC addons but I do not know about them. I dn loaded the update by Graham Mitchell and was able to load FALCN7 to KATL from the current star.
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DVA043
Senior Captain, MD-11
OLP
Joined on June 10 2001
Event Half Century Club
Online Double Century Club
50 State Club
DVA Twenty-Year Anniversary
Everett 1500 Club
Bi-Millennium Club
Four Million Mile Club
"Col. Panic"
Marietta, GA
2,314 legs, 9,320.7 hours
240 legs,
553.9 hours online
1,972 legs,
8,113.8 hours ACARS
75 legs,
196.3 hours event
2,350 legs, 9,455.6 hours total
91 legs dispatched, 66.4
hours
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Posted onPost created on
December 22 2011 15:10 ET by Luke Kolin
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Here's where I'm confused. If I load the PLN file that the route plotter gives me, I can do current SID/STARs even without updating my nav database. All FS9 or FSX cares about are the coordinates in the PLN file itself.
Cheers!
Luke KolinSenior Captain, MD-11
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DVA3710
Senior Captain, DC-6
OLP, COMM
Joined on November 12 2006
B757 100 Club
50 State Club
Quatercentenary Club
Piston Prop 100 Club
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary
"God is my pilot. I'm just the First Officer."
Apopka, FL
432 legs, 690.6 hours
35 legs,
60.8 hours online
385 legs,
620.1 hours ACARS
6 legs,
7.7 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
December 22 2011 16:20 ET by Sid Dudley
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The same as Luke said. If I download a flight plan from simroutes.com and then load it into flight sim it puts the waypoints in by name.
Sid DudleySenior Captain, DC-6
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DVA6167
Senior Captain, B737-800
Joined on July 19 2008
Online Century Club
50 State Club
Everett 500 Club
Tin Dispatcher
Millennium Club
Two Million Mile Club
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary
Madison, WI USA
1,182 legs, 4,649.7 hours
163 legs,
522.6 hours online
1,169 legs,
4,579.1 hours ACARS
2 legs,
4.0 hours event
1,225 legs, 4,810.0 hours total
343 legs dispatched, 224.0
hours
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Posted onPost created on
December 22 2011 17:34 ET by Bryan Klawiter
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+1 That has always worked for me also.
Bryan KlawiterSenior Captain, B737-800
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DVA9186
Captain, MD-88
Joined on November 07 2010
"keep the dirty side down"
Williamstown, WV USA
69 legs, 106.0 hours
67 legs,
102.1 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
December 23 2011 02:40 ET by Ed Fisher
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I see after trying a couple that the waypoints are loaded as you stated. What do you dou for waypoint that vector to intersept on the glideslope.. I like to load the waypoints to the glideslope at yhe end of theroute I receive
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AFV292
Senior Captain, A380-800
Joined on March 02 2009
GVA 5 Year Anniversary
50 State Club
Diplomatic Mission
Globetrotter Extraordinaire
Flying Colonel
Two Million Mile Club
Historical Five Hundred Club
Under African Skies
"Flying steadily onwards and upwards"
ZA
1,845 legs, 5,394.9 hours
1,833 legs,
5,371.5 hours ACARS
1,908 legs, 5,542.5 hours total
3 legs dispatched, 4.5
hours
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Posted onPost created on
December 25 2011 15:45 ET by Mark Stead
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| You could manually load that into your flightplan using your default flightsim routeplotter, open up your flightplan on the flightsim route plotter, click on your last STAR point and then add your eg ILS waypoints to the flightplan one waypoint at a time, find the line , left click the line and drag it to the point you want, and release once at the waypoint you want, once finished them all, save it, then you can go and fly the route once you load it, and it'll have all the points you need.
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AFV397
Captain, A350-900
Joined on November 22 2010
International Tourist
Diplomatic Mission
Robert Taylor AF Memorial Club
GVA 10 Year Anniversary
Online Five Hundred Club
Jurassic Jets Century Club
Million Mile Club
"Isaiah 40:31"
Cherthala, Kerala India
752 legs, 2,398.6 hours
728 legs,
2,299.0 hours online
748 legs,
2,386.7 hours ACARS
2 legs,
14.1 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
December 25 2011 15:59 ET by Cyriac Jose
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Luke Kolin wrote:
Here's where I'm confused. If I load the PLN file that the route plotter gives me, I can do current SID/STARs even without updating my nav database. All FS9 or FSX cares about are the coordinates in the PLN file itself.
Cheers!
Sometimes controllers give a Direct To waypoint. And Direct To a wp on the FS9 GPS is impossible if its not in the database. I've had it.
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