ACR MLG DEVIATES FROM COURSE AND ENTERS RESTRICTED AREA.

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FILED FLT PLAN FROM BUR TO DEN WAS THE VNY 5 DEP; PMD TRANSITION; PMD J6 J146 HBU. CLRNC DELIVERY GAVE US THE VNY 5; PMD TRANSITION; PMD--THE PMD 046 DEG R DAG 239 DEG R DAG FLT PLAN ROUTE. LAST WK I WAS ABLE TO REPROGRAM THE FMC WITH THE NEW ROUTING. THIS TIME IT WOULDN'T ACCEPT IT. AS WE PASSED PMD ON OUR CLBOUT I WAS STILL TRYING TO REPROGRAM. WE WENT OUT J6 (PMD 067 DEG R) FOR A COUPLE OF MILES BEFORE WE WENT TO MANUAL VOR NAV. IN MAKING A LEFT TURN TO ABOUT 020 DEGS TO INTERCEPT THE PMD 046 DEG R; WE ENTERED THE EDGE OF THE EDWARDS AFB RESTR AREA AS WE LEVELED AT FL370. ATC INFORMED US WE WERE IN THE AREA; GAVE US A TURN TO 080 DEGS FOR DAG AND SAID WE WERE OUT OF THE RESTR AREA. (THE CAPT WAS FLYING AND I WAS ON THE RADIO.) THE PROB BEGAN WITH THE NEW ROUTING WHICH THE FMC WOULD NOT ACCEPT. ALSO; THIS ROUTING BRINGS YOU RIGHT TO THE EDGE OF THE RESTR AREA--J6/J146 GIVES YOU A LOT MORE CLRNC. WE'VE BECOME SO USED TO USING THE EFIS MAP MODE AND AUTOFLT; THAT WE'VE GOTTEN AWAY FROM VOR NAV. PARTLY COMPLACENCY; PARTLY CONFUSION. UNFORTUNATELY; MY AIRLINE'S MLG B TRNING WAS ATROCIOUS AND THE FAA'S RUBBER STAMP OF THE SYLLABUS WAS CRIMINAL. (A SURVEY OF THOSE OF US FLYING THIS ACFT OVERWHELMINGLY CONDEMNED THE TRNING AND ONLY BY THREATENING TO GO PUBLIC CONVINCED THE COMPANY TO SPLIT THE MLG B FLEET FROM THE MLG A.) THIS TYPE OF INCIDENT HAS HAPPENED TO SEVERAL OF OUR CREWS AND AFTER FLYING THE MLG B FOR 18 MONTHS I FINALLY SCREWED UP; TOO! CALLBACK CONVERSATION WITH RPTR REVEALED THE FOLLOWING: WHEN ANALYST POINTED OUT THAT THE PMD 046 DEG R DID NOT INTERCEPT THE DAG 239 DEG R; RPTR SEEMED FLUSTERED AND SAID HE WAS POSITIVE THAT THE RADIALS HE RPTED WERE THE RADIALS HE WAS GIVEN BY BUR CLRNC DELIVERY; AND THAT HE HAD READ THEM BACK. HE ALSO SAID THAT HE THOUGHT THE ROUTE BTWN PMD AND DAG WAS AMENDED MORE OFTEN THAN NOT AND HE WONDERED WHY THEY DIDN'T SIMPLY CHANGE THE CENTER STORED ROUTE.