"O. Sami Saydjari" wrote in message ...
Well, I used the route planning software available at the duats website.
I picked the low-level victor airway that it recommended....and thats
the one that had the conflicts.

Sami,

While I use DUATS once my route is planned, the victor routing
options of Flight Planner aren't always the best airway routing.
They may send you to VORs or intersections which add miles to
your trip or keep you on airways when a direct VOR segment or
two would shorten it.

To get great circle routing which is easy to put on a chart
out of DUATS, select the "direct routing for GPS/Loran".

I recommend purchasing a "low altitude enroute planning chart"
(or something like that) from your favorite chart shop. You
can sanity check any routing and easily see where picking a
fuel stop a bit off to the west would add little but steer
you clear, or where going direct between VORs would make a
shorter route. It's also a great aid for any replanning
which might be necessary enroute due to weather.

In truth, for longer trips, we file VOR routing (not necessarily
airways) more and more often, because with judicious use of
direct segments it usually adds very little (maybe 1%) to the
trip and makes filing flight plans easier.

Cheers,
Sydney