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DVA9262 Senior Captain, B737-800 Joined on December 09 2010 Everett 250 Club Nine Century Club Canton, MI USA 920 legs, 1,411.7 hours 13 legs, 12.0 hours online 918 legs, 1,409.5 hours ACARS	Posted onPost created on October 11 2018 13:53 ET by Jeffrey Putz
	Colleagues and fellow pilots, Is there a relatively easy and intuitive way to input flight plan data into FSX without having to manually adjust the flight planner, which can be both tedious and frustrating? I remember back in the day when I was more proficient in the technical aspects of FSX that there was some trick or work around but have since forgotten the method I had previously employed. Also, it seems to me that the FSX database is rather outdated and might not be inclusive of all the possible waypoints that a real world flight plan would utilize. Is there a way to update this database or are we stuck with vintage 2006 data? Thank you for reading. Cheers, Jeff
DVA12617 Chief Pilot, A350-900 OLP, VFRADV DISPATCHER E-MAIL Joined on April 23 2015 B757 100 Club Eurocap Club Millennium Club Toulouse 500 Club Online Triple Century Club DVA Ten-Year Anniversary "Go Utes!" Herriman, UT 1,280 legs, 2,967.8 hours 391 legs, 810.3 hours online 1,261 legs, 2,925.6 hours ACARS 25 legs, 78.6 hours event 39 legs dispatched, 174.2 hours	Posted onPost created on October 11 2018 14:29 ET by Joe Burner
	Jeffery, Hopefully I can help you out. Sadly FSX hasn’t updated any flight plans airports and navigation aids since 2006. However I do know you can update the airports with AFCAD files from flyawaysimulation.com and or AV sim library. I prefer libraryavsim as it’s easier, although you’ll need an account. For navigation aids I personally subscribe to Navigraph, it’ll update fmc data and navigation aids as well. Also a subscription as well but it’s well worth the money. Also one other thing and tool I personally use for ATC update is Pro ATC x. Well worth the money. Although here recently the Captain sim III isn’t compatible with pro ATC x. I have discovered that. Anyways I hope this helps.
DVA9262 Senior Captain, B737-800 Joined on December 09 2010 Everett 250 Club Nine Century Club Canton, MI USA 920 legs, 1,411.7 hours 13 legs, 12.0 hours online 918 legs, 1,409.5 hours ACARS	Posted onPost created on October 11 2018 16:39 ET by Jeffrey Putz
	Joe, Outstanding information sir and thank you very much for taking the time to compose such a thoughtful and thoroughly edifying reply. I will indeed do as you have advised and look into the prospect of supplementing the meager flight planning options of FSX with alternative resources. Thank you again for the insights and recommendations, I really appreciate the thought. Cheers, Jeff
DVA10698 Chief Pilot, B717-200 OLP, 737-ATP DISPATCHER Joined on April 25 2012 50 State Club Globetrotter US Mountaineer Club US Coastal Club DVA Ten-Year Anniversary Everett Millennium Club Events Century Club Flying Colonel Online Fifteen Century "Life is simple, eat, sleep, fly, sim....." Miami, FL 1,682 legs, 2,309.2 hours 1,621 legs, 2,204.2 hours online 1,682 legs, 2,309.2 hours ACARS 104 legs, 165.6 hours event 75 legs dispatched, 191.3 hours	Posted onPost created on October 11 2018 20:35 ET by Jay Marin
	Jeffrey, I will also suggest to take a look at simbrief.com, I use that website extensively to do flight plans, I believe you have to register but it is free. The cool thing about it is that you can set it to save the flight plan in different formats, making it easy to when you want to file a flight plan. Another one flightaware.com when you open the site you can look below the first few lines and you will see "IFR Route Search" and click the link "recently used IFR routes" and it will show you RW flight plans for around the world. Agree with Joe with the Navigraph, as he said, it is a paid subscription but well worth it. Hope this helps. Jay
DVA11591 Senior Captain, B757-200 OLP Joined on July 02 2013 50 State Club Globetrotter Everett Millennium Club DVA Fleet Master Online Twenty Century US Coastal Club Events Double Century Club Five Million Mile Club US Mountaineer Club B757 100 Club Tri-Millennium Club Tin Dispatcher DVA Five-Year Anniversary "Left foot dead foot, verified! Feather Left!" Daytona Beach, FL 3,271 legs, 11,709.7 hours 2,885 legs, 10,250.1 hours online 3,142 legs, 11,149.0 hours ACARS 326 legs, 874.1 hours event 274 legs dispatched, 316.5 hours	Posted onPost created on October 11 2018 21:47 ET by Soonho Lee
	Try using our Route Planner! It's updated and it should work with FSX without any issue!
DVA2887 Senior Captain, A320 OLP, 737-ATP, VFRADV E-MAIL Joined on January 30 2006 50 State Club Globetrotter Tri-Jet Triumph US Coastal Club Millennium Club DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary US Mountaineer Club Toulouse 250 Club Online Eight Century Charlotte, NC 1,283 legs, 1,792.7 hours 837 legs, 1,044.3 hours online 1,265 legs, 1,770.7 hours ACARS 31 legs, 49.6 hours event 3 legs dispatched, 2.5 hours	Posted onPost created on October 11 2018 22:07 ET by Andrew Vane
	I have not tried it recently but this link supposedly adds in all the new waypoints and GPS coordinates. http://www.aero.sors.fr/navaids3.html I personally use simbrief and love it.
DVA12617 Chief Pilot, A350-900 OLP, VFRADV DISPATCHER E-MAIL Joined on April 23 2015 B757 100 Club Eurocap Club Millennium Club Toulouse 500 Club Online Triple Century Club DVA Ten-Year Anniversary "Go Utes!" Herriman, UT 1,280 legs, 2,967.8 hours 391 legs, 810.3 hours online 1,261 legs, 2,925.6 hours ACARS 25 legs, 78.6 hours event 39 legs dispatched, 174.2 hours	Posted onPost created on October 11 2018 22:23 ET by Joe Burner
	Soonho Lee wrote: Try using our Route Planner! It's updated and it should work with FSX without any issue! I keep forgetting about our own route planner. I also use SimBrief and can attest it works wonders. Especially planning fuel. I do recommend if you use Sim brief when customizing your “fleet” of aircraft to go off DVA Aircraft operating manuals for the numbers.
DVA9545 Senior Captain, B777-200 OLP, 737-ATP Joined on March 03 2011 50 State Club Globetrotter Quad-Jet Quartermaster US Coastal Club US Mountaineer Club Million Mile Club Events Double Century Club DVA Ten-Year Anniversary Toulouse 500 Club Bi-Millennium Club Online Twenty Century "YUPIIIII" Goiás Brazil 2,492 legs, 5,039.3 hours 2,321 legs, 4,760.9 hours online 2,484 legs, 5,009.7 hours ACARS 271 legs, 683.8 hours event	Posted onPost created on October 11 2018 22:32 ET by Thiago Braga
	Andrew Vane wrote: I have not tried it recently but this link supposedly adds in all the new waypoints and GPS coordinates. http://www.aero.sors.fr/navaids3.html I personally use simbrief and love it. +1 together with simbrief
DVA9262 Senior Captain, B737-800 Joined on December 09 2010 Everett 250 Club Nine Century Club Canton, MI USA 920 legs, 1,411.7 hours 13 legs, 12.0 hours online 918 legs, 1,409.5 hours ACARS	Posted onPost created on October 12 2018 15:32 ET by Jeffrey Putz
	Jay Marin wrote: Jeffrey, I will also suggest to take a look at simbrief.com, I use that website extensively to do flight plans, I believe you have to register but it is free. The cool thing about it is that you can set it to save the flight plan in different formats, making it easy to when you want to file a flight plan. Another one flightaware.com when you open the site you can look below the first few lines and you will see "IFR Route Search" and click the link "recently used IFR routes" and it will show you RW flight plans for around the world. Agree with Joe with the Navigraph, as he said, it is a paid subscription but well worth it. Hope this helps. Jay Jay, thank you very much for the reply and I wasn't aware of simbrief so I appreciate you taking the time to bring that resource to my attention. Flightaware is an excellent website as you say and I have made extensive use of it in the past. Thanks again for the input and the thought, it is much appreciated.
DVA9262 Senior Captain, B737-800 Joined on December 09 2010 Everett 250 Club Nine Century Club Canton, MI USA 920 legs, 1,411.7 hours 13 legs, 12.0 hours online 918 legs, 1,409.5 hours ACARS	Posted onPost created on October 12 2018 15:33 ET by Jeffrey Putz
	Soonho Lee wrote: Try using our Route Planner! It's updated and it should work with FSX without any issue! Soonho, thank you for taking the time to read and reply to my post. I will indeed look into route planner and if it contains all the current aeronautical chart data, then it would be precisely what I've been looking for and something to adequately supplement the otherwise outmoded content of FSX. Thanks again for the insight sir.
DVA9262 Senior Captain, B737-800 Joined on December 09 2010 Everett 250 Club Nine Century Club Canton, MI USA 920 legs, 1,411.7 hours 13 legs, 12.0 hours online 918 legs, 1,409.5 hours ACARS	Posted onPost created on October 12 2018 15:35 ET by Jeffrey Putz
	Andrew Vane wrote: I have not tried it recently but this link supposedly adds in all the new waypoints and GPS coordinates. http://www.aero.sors.fr/navaids3.html I personally use simbrief and love it. That is more or less what I have been searching for; something that will enable me to plot a route consistent with the routes as flown per rw Delta flight plans that are available on flight aware. Thank you for the excellent recommendation as well as for the time and consideration. Cheers, Jeff
DVA9262 Senior Captain, B737-800 Joined on December 09 2010 Everett 250 Club Nine Century Club Canton, MI USA 920 legs, 1,411.7 hours 13 legs, 12.0 hours online 918 legs, 1,409.5 hours ACARS	Posted onPost created on October 12 2018 15:36 ET by Jeffrey Putz
	Thiago Braga wrote: Andrew Vane wrote: I have not tried it recently but this link supposedly adds in all the new waypoints and GPS coordinates. http://www.aero.sors.fr/navaids3.html I personally use simbrief and love it. +1 together with simbrief I will certainly try to use these programs in conjunction as you advise and I'm sure will be much more satisfied as a consequence. Thank you for the reply sir.

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