"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote:

"Tom Sixkiller" wrote in message
...

That's not what he said...he was referring to the TRANSFER of the plan
from
one system to another (i.e., the carrier to the FAA).


You need to read his prior messages too.

What you choose to take of it all is your way.

The issue is filing. Roy Smith has to call FSS or use DUATs.

The airline computers *automatically" determine the route for long segments
and use canned routes for short segments. Such flight plans are then
transferred to the FAA without any human action on the part of dispatch or
the flight crew (unless they want to change something).

Once such an air carrier flight plan is in the hands of the FAA, it is
processed no differently than a flight plan originated by a FSS specialist
or via DUATs.

I suspect you will have some quarrel with that summation.