Trans-Atlantic Fligthplans

[EHM-1034 Kris]

I wanted to do a trans-atlantic flight yesterday, but when I generated the flight plan, something odd happened.
According to FS (2002, that is), I first have to fly to somewhere in North-Africa before I can cross the Atlantic. I forgot to mention that I was planning on flying a 777 from EHAM to KJFK.
Can someone enlighten me about the logic (or rather lack of) behind this strange phenomena?

[EHM-0975 Ragnar]

I've also encountered that....

It's appears to be a flawed route planning for flights where there are long distances between the intersections. There is some logic to it - but only from the programmers point of view...

What I usually do when this happens is select Direct-GPS to get a 'line' and then drag-and-drop onto intersections to follow the jetways.
This is a bit of a pain since if you zoom in on the jetway between intersections the jetway doesn't show...

I believe that there's some add-on flight planning software that solves this problem better, someone who have used that might give some suggestion

[EHM-0962 Zhen Yi]

yeah that's what i do too......otherwise the flight would take much longer than really necessary.......hope this would be corrected by FS2006

[EHM-1388 Tiberiu]

FSNavigator is a small utility that makes excelent flight plans, and if you choose so, sets the autopilot to follow it every step of the way. It can even export them to standard FS2002 plans (*.pln).
You can find it on Avsim or Flightsim I guess. The problem is you can use it only 20 times, after that you need to register.

[EHM-0641 Rico]

If you choose IFR, then that's what you get... sure enough if you slect high or low altitude airways...