Real / actual routes vs. simbrief

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I wonder to know if there is a web site / tool to see the real usual “routes” followed by the companies. For instance, i traveled to Canary Islands, and simbrief proposes routes that are not really the ones used by the companies: ie. to go from lanzarote to gran canaria, they don’t use the published SID / STAR but they take shortcuts in order to save time. (tools directly take the direction to gran canaria without going to the north of the island). It there somewhere a web site that documents the actual routes (not asking for flightradar, but for a web site giving the waypoints / routes / constraints).

Also another point, I was impressed about the speed of ATR on taxiways… There were moving quite fast there, nothing compared as usual on international airports…

Thanks,

Pascal

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There are many - there are even buttons in the simbrief planning tool that will take you to these sources.

EDI-GLA is one were members post up IRL routings (free)
In the US there is an IRL database of routes - I think its FlightAware?

There are plenty of other sources too that I’m sure other members will highlight

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Skyvector is what some real world pilots use for flight planning. Just don’t file it or some controller is going to get confused. In conjunction with Flightradar24/Flightaware, you can probably hash something “realistic” enough

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You can find IRL routes right in Simbrief. When you set up your flight, go to the “suggested routes” box and click on “view all routes”. You’ll get a list of potential routings, and the ones that are based on real-life routes are marked as such in the lower right corner of the route box. (Other options are “recently assigned by VATSIM ATC” or “previously used by other users”.)

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They will use SID/STARS & certainly will have them contained within the flightplan / ATC clearance. It is ATC that give shortcuts themselves once airborne, often always the same, but never to be relied on.

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From my own experience, what gets filed can differ greatly from what is actually flown, particularly on departures and arrivals.
Those observed shortcuts are usually given ad hoc by controllers.