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Can anyone teach me how to plan for long hauls such as from NA to Europe? I keep trying to do the High-altitude Airways, but from KMIA to EDDF or anywhere else basically it will just tell me to go way down in the Atlantic instead of the more realistic northern course. I can't find airways that go from NA all the way to Europe (when I get to the mid-Atlantic they just disappear from the map. Does anyone have an easier, more realistic way to do this? Thanks for any help.

I have the same problem. I fly from New York to  London, but instead of going across the ocean, It goes north west to Alaska, then east across the north pole. When I get to Scotland it goes straight south to London. The entire trip uses about 4x more fuel than it should. And by that I mean I rrun out of fuel 1/3 of the way there. The way I get around it is plot a direct course, but it isn't very realistic.

I can't rememember the last time I flew acrossed an ocean, but why don't you just start out with a GPS Direct route, and choose the waypoints you want?

Look at CoPilot Pro w/ EasyGPS from Abacus.  I use this to fly from NYC to Stockolm, St. Louis to Oahu and Oahu to Newcastle, NSW with no problem.  The one glitch is flying from Oahu to NWS, when you cross the equator the route wants you to go east along the equator for aways and then it directs you back southwest towards Australia.  I have found that when you get to this jog if you just keep on your original heading you will pick up the route again, no need to take the detour.

Rod

You can delete the waypoints you don't want

I tried deleting the waypoints I don't want, but it's very time consuming, and still turns out to a wrong or bad route in the end.

I also tried doing Direct-GPS and adding my own waypoints, but I want to go through actual airways and intersections, and I can plan them until I get to the mid-Atlantic, where they suddenly disappear off the map, no matter how far in I zoom.