Airway Routings
Would some kind soul from either ATC, IFPS, IFPU or central flow please explain something that has baffled me and many of my colleagues for years. Half of my flight plans get re-routed - presumably either because I screwed up, or their computer selected the best routing for the traffic and conditions on the day. Seeing as all flight plans are fed into some kind of central computer that selects the routing it thinks best, why on earth is it not possible for us to simply state the departure point, requested level and destination, and let the computer route us the way it would have chosen irrespective of what I had originally planned?
Surely this would save everybody time, including IFPS staff who would no longer have any need for manual intervention or checking. Am I missing something really obvious here, or should I go and study for a PhD in understanding the preffered routings section of Aerads - or perhaps pay someone to do it for me?