Tim Capps wrote on Nov 26^th, 2014 at 3:45am:

Cool IP, I checked out Simbrief and it looks great, but, like other services and resources, it uses airways.

I guess you came to think that it does so because it uses the neat feature of suggesting one of the mostly used routes for your departure and destination.

Simbrief itself is not bound to any specific route setup though, so if you hack in SEA YVR ANC (or something alike), you might well receive a proper plan to fly from Seattle to Anchorage via VORs only. Just mind the route string, which you can generate manually or import from your favourite flight planner like Plan-G or FSC.

The thing with the airways just happens because, nowadays, most people use those and therefore fill up the system with "this" being the preferred route. As said, just throw some VOR identifiers at it and it will plan for those just fine.

The best way to look at it would be that it doesn't do the actual route planning (since it links to external data bases and websites or awaits the user input on that route string) but, once you have a route to fly, will allow to plan for this one in high detail.

Happy VOR flying.  :)