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How Do Pilot Make...... - Air France - 16-01-2006
How do pilots make their route for the flight, why choose this VOR and not this one ect........
Am using FSnavigator and i want to make a real Route
Am flying with Air France.
Thank You,
Clement
Re: How Do Pilot Make...... - WBHoenig - 16-01-2006
The airline assigns the routes to fly. The pilots have no say in it.
Re: How Do Pilot Make...... - Air France - 16-01-2006
Then how does the airline assigns routes???
Re: How Do Pilot Make...... - Covoxer - 16-01-2006
If you fly big aircraft:
1. Follow airways.
2. Select the shortest way possible.
These are two simplest rules to keep it realistic.
Re: How Do Pilot Make...... - eazy - 16-01-2006
If you use FsNav try to let it compute your flightplan along airways. Enter departure and destination, then click the "generate flightplan"
button (somewhere among the icons on top) and select high altitude airways or low altitude airways, depending on what flight level you
plan to fly. FsNav computes the legs and altitude based on the cruise level that's defined with the aircraft. You can change that later (also
one of the top buttons). You can also display airways in map mode, that's the "L" and "H" buttons on the right side of the map.
Re: How Do Pilot Make...... - runibl - 16-01-2006
Quote:Clement312 wrote:I have been wondering about this also, I would suspect that they use some special program.
Then how does the airline assigns routes???
Does anyone know excactly how the airline assigns route for the pilots?
Re: How Do Pilot Make...... - Air France - 16-01-2006
Covoxer,
Where can i find a Map with Airways???
Re: How Do Pilot Make...... - Air France - 16-01-2006
If i fly at like 33,0000 FT is that High airways or Low??
Re: How Do Pilot Make...... - Drew - 16-01-2006
thats very very high
33,000 thou, will be high airways
Re: How Do Pilot Make...... - Drew - 16-01-2006
i now use this....
http://rfinder.asalink.net/free/
and then enter each of the waypoints that it produces into fsnav
Re: How Do Pilot Make...... - Medic_Pilot - 16-01-2006
Quote:Clement312 wrote:
If i fly at like 33,0000 FT is that High airways or Low??
By definition Low airways are those that exist below 18,000 feet. High airways are those that start at FL180 (18,000) and extend up to
FL600. This is in the US.
Greg
Post Edited ( 01-16-06 19:46 )
Re: How Do Pilot Make...... - ivo - 16-01-2006
Wait, I'm confused. When you're in FS and looking at the defualt planner and you click on an airway, it says an altitude like 17,000ft or
something else. Does that mean that I can only fly at 17,000ft while I'm using that airway.
And, is there a way to program the FMC to use airways?
Re: How Do Pilot Make...... - KenG - 16-01-2006
In the real world the dispatcher does all of the work. This is usually through sophisticated airline specific software and their knowledge of
operating rules and regulations. For more information see: http://www.dispatcher.org/
In reality the airlines have it the easiest. The real work is done by the Captains of Corporate Aviation (and the handful of GA pilots) who must plan
and operate flights with the same accuracy often with much less information or the dedicated experience of airline dispatchers. While domestic flights
are easy as many of the routing options are based on the basics learned as an instrument student and years of experience flying the federal airspace
system. Things become much harder when it is time to fly internationally and in fact the FAA does require training prior to operating an aircraft in
international airspace. This training may take the form of searching out an applicably knowledgeable CFI or AGI and getting an endorsement to special
course of instruction taught by companies such as Simuflite or FlightSafety. The IPC or International Procedures Course is generally a week long of
academics to teach the basics of operating internationally.
Re: How Do Pilot Make...... - WBHoenig - 16-01-2006
Quote:Drew wrote:
i now use this....
http://rfinder.asalink.net/free/
and then enter each of the waypoints that it produces into fsnav
Me, too. It always seems to work well with the PMDG fmc, unlike the default flight planner's routes.
Re: How Do Pilot Make...... - runibl - 16-01-2006
Quote:WBHoenig wrote:I too use that, it works very well. I also use http://flightaware.com/analysis/route.rvt for actual flights in USA, and http://www.fsroute.com/ for
Quote:Drew wrote:
i now use this....
http://rfinder.asalink.net/free/
and then enter each of the waypoints that it produces into fsnav
Me, too. It always seems to work well with the PMDG fmc, unlike the default flight planner's routes.
exporting the flights.