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DVA3884
Captain, B767-300

Joined on January 03 2007

East Ayrshire, GB

38 legs, 69.6 hours
26 legs, 52.5 hours online
31 legs, 50.2 hours ACARS
1 legs, 11.6 hours event

Posted onPost created on January 19 2007 06:35 ET by Shand Stewart

Can someone please help me work out international flight plans. Specifically NAT planning. I just don't seem to be able to work them out. Plus how do you program these into flight simulator.

Any and all help would be appreciated.
Thanks

Shand Stewart

Captain, B767-300

DVA1267
Senior Captain, B777-200

Joined on July 09 2003
Triple Century Club

"Tactless, Understood, Right"
Colorado Springs, CO USA

368 legs, 1,943.8 hours
47 legs, 192.9 hours online
54 legs, 217.2 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on January 19 2007 13:18 ET by Matt Reamy

What's your major hang up?

Here's a cut from one of the track messages:
U CYMON DENDU 51/50 52/40 53/30 54/20 DOGAL BABAN
EAST LVLS 320 330 340 350 360 370 380 390 400
WEST LVLS NIL
EUR RTS EAST NIL
NAR N95B N97B N99A-

States that it's Track U, and it starts on the CYMON intersection, proceeds through those waypoints to BABAN.

Now, depending on what you're using (I use FSBuild): the lat/longs are input as: 5150N 5240N 5330N, etc. and that's how you'd input them into the CDU if you've got that sort of equipment. If you're completely lacking in cool add on planes with FMSes and lacking in cool flight planning/flight plan exporting software, you're not SOL: http://www.deltava.org/newsletter/Delta%20FLY!%20February%202006.pdf

There's an article I wrote in that issue of Fly that describes how to open a .pln file and edit it manually.

Matt Reamy (DVA1267)

DVA2253
Senior Captain, DC-8-61
COMM

Joined on April 01 2005
Everett 250 Club
Online Century Club
Eight Century Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary

"I'd rather be flying!"
Church Hill, TN USA

862 legs, 1,344.5 hours
108 legs, 165.2 hours online
299 legs, 485.1 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on January 19 2007 15:53 ET by George Lewis

Shand, by all means, check out the Delta FLY articles - Matt Reamy wrote some good international flight planning articles that would be worth your while to check out.

George Lewis (DVA2253)

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