Questions tagged [flight-planning]
Flight planning is the process of preparing for a flight: planning a route to fly, identifying alternate destinations in case of diversion, calculating required fuel, ensuring the aircraft will not be not overloaded and so on.
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Where does FlightAware obtain the filed flight plans under the "Flight Data" section?
Visit the FlightAware page for a random flight, say https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/QFA570
Now under the "Flight Data" section, sometimes we'll see an entry called "Route" ...
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Why does one airliner fly along the coast and the other doesn't?
Found this odd to see the same airliner, same origin, same destination, and same time, yet different paths. More interesting is seeing that one aircraft is flying along the coast while the other is ...
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How to find TAS, IAS, PPH and USG?
Could somebody explain this task. I do not understand how to use this table :(
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Flying using less fuel in one tank
Can flying using fuel from one and not the other tank save fuel from constant cross winds over long flights or make it easier to land? Is there anytime where having the ability to shift the weight of ...
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Are TIBS and TWEB in Alaska discontinued?
My 2021 paper edition of FAR/AIM still mentions TIBS (7-1-8) as Alaska-Only, but when I look at the Alaska Chart Supplement I can't find any TIBS numbers.
https://aeronav.faa.gov/Upload_313-d/...
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Selection of cruise FL and semi-circular rule
Let's assume I am flying VFR from A to B.
B is located north-northwest of A, eg. a direct course would yield a magnetic track of, say, 350°(M). However, some legs of my route are northeastwards, ...
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What constitute "known icing conditions" and when can you fly VFR while they exist?
For flight operations conducted under 14 CFR part 91(other than subpart F) in VMC, what conditions constitute "known icing conditions"? Under what circumstances (e.g., altitude difference or no ...
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How to fill out the Nav Log when reaching set heading point before the top of climb from the departure airport?
My current scenario is that I am flying from airport A to airport B. I need to reach 8000ft from sea level but it takes 22nm horizontally to reach that altitude and my first set heading point is 12nm ...
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How do I intentionally fly into turbulence?
How could I plan a flight to increase my chances of a fun ride through turbulence? What if I want to plan my flight before the weather forecast is available? The internet is full of people who are ...
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How Can I Know If An Airport/ Airfield Is Equipped To Operate During A Power Outage
My buddy was asked this by an IP. Is there a way to see in any publication that an airport is equipped to operate during a power outage? Or a way to see if a airfield has backup power?
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How do pilots get enough sleep in preparation for a long night flight?
Are pilots authorised to use sleeping pills to rest before long haul flight that departs at night hours? This question comes in mind as I have flown Turkish Airlines flights that depart at 2.30 at ...
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Question about airline routing with oceanic flightplans
so I looked up my recently flight from Incheon, South Korea to JFK on Flightaware (Korean Air 85 on Wednesday 8/23):
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The "route" under "Flight Data" is just 4348N/...
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Airline pilots and unplanned but not necessary manouevres
This story details how an EasyJet captain flew a presumably unplanned circle to give everyone on board a look at the Northern Lights.
Are captains allowed to do this sort of thing on a whim, or would ...
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Examples of non-direct flight tracks (ETOPS, political instability, etc.)
Flights don't always follow the great circle route (the shortest distance between two points on the globe) for a number of reasons:
Political Instability
Airspace Closures
ETOPS Limits
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how to determine the optimum FL for A320 to make a flight plan?
I want to make an ifr flight plan for A320 based on fcom, but I don't understand how to make one
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Flight plan routing - when can you go direct? [duplicate]
When you are creating a flight plan and getting a route from airport A to airport B, I noticed that in flight simulation the routes will mostly have a pattern of going to a waypoint --> then an ...
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Changing SID without changing the flight plan
Pilots are demanding conventional SID rather than RNAV SID planned on flight plan due gps problem. In that case is it enough for a tower controller to coordinate the conventional SID with the approach ...
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What does this term in a SimBrief flight plan routing mean?
I checked everywhere and I cannot figure out what the bold sections mean in this flight plan routing I got from SimBrief:
DTTA/11 N0430F360 TOBI3C TOBIB UA725 TANIT UM733 OSMAR DCT ALEDI DCT APSUX ...
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How does FlightAware correlate flights to Part 91 flight plan data?
I'm looking at some flights in FlightAware. With the scheduled air carrier flights, their call-sign can be crossreferenced with a flight schedule database to determine the origin and destination. How ...
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Why some airspaces don't have high-altitude IFR airways?
I noticed on enroute charts that some airspaces (mainly over Balnkans - e.g. LWSS, LYBA, LDZO, LOVV etc) do not have high-altitude IFR airways. Unfortunately searching online didn't reveal much. What ...
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When is it required to enter an airway? (IFR)
Assuming I'm not using a computer program to generate a flight plan for me, for cross-country IFR flight planning in the United States, how quickly after finishing departure procedures is one supposed ...
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What might have been the reasons for this low flight altitude?
I was flying from Heathrow to Miami last wednesday (AA 39) and for the first ⅔ of the flight we were flying at 28.000 feet, only afterwards did it go up to 33.000 feet. So far I was under the ...
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Should IFR flight plans in the USA still have one waypoint per sector in 2023?
Alternate title: How come ATC has cleared aircraft direct from Laredo to Columbus 17 times?
If you hop on ForeFlight today (Feb 20 2023) and search for suggested routes between KLRD and KCMH you'll ...
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What is the best way to navigate a storm?
Let me say I had no choice other than fly through a storm I'm on a one way mission to airdrop a vital cure to an isolated area. I can't turn around, land or go around, I have to go through. Going ...
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Calculating center of gravity when calculated CoG, T/O mass, fuel burn and fuel burn station are known
I'm practicing for my EASA PPL(A) exam and one of the questions I came across sound like this:
Calculated take-off mass = 1082 kg, calculated CG = 0.254 m, fuel burn
= 55 l on station 0.40 m.
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Calculate Block Fuel based on Altitude, Temp, Taxi Fuel, Time for climb/approach and landing
I'm preparing for my EASA exams and one of the questions I came across for the "Flight Performance and Planning" exam sounds like this:
For planning a VFR flight, the following data are ...
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Why did this plane fly in a zigzag pattern?
I was tracking flight NKS739 from LAX to SEA this morning and saw that it made some some odd turns. If you look at the track from FlightRadar24.com you can see that it was heading toward SEA then it ...
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How can I determine how long it would take to fly between two points?
How can I determine the approximate time required to fly a particular plane (e.g. a Cessna 172) between two points, considering the possibility of needing intermediate stops? For airline flights, I ...
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How do you calculate trip fuel based on hourly fuel burn rates?
I am working on a small personal project that uses fuel burn data about specific aircraft to calculate the total fuel required for a trip. The data looks like this:
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EASA - Legal Alternate when ILS to a specific RW is U/S
Interesting question this morning. My alternate has RW07/25; the ILS to 25 was U/S. TAF was for OVC007.
My alternate minima are:
If DH < 250 then use DH + 200. With the ILS inop, had I needed to ...
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Why would a pilot pick this military airport as an emergency landing airport?
Looking at this old question, a comment suggested that Skyway Airlines flight 1267 was a possible answer to that question. Out of curiosity, I looked at the NTSB link of the Nov. 1996 incident report ...
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Can pilots confirm or refute that the earth is rotating or not? [closed]
Some people claim that the plane should fly slower in one direction and faster in the other direction, if the earth is rotating.
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Why would a flight from Frankfurt to Madrid fly over London?
While enjoying the sunshine at the bank of the river Main in Frankfurt (Germany) this evening, I saw a LATAM B787-9 depart over the city center towards the north. This was slightly surprising, as the ...
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What are the ICAO RNAV equipment codes for the non-WAAS G1000 and GNS 430W?
When filing an ICAO IFR flight plan, where in "the manual" (which manual?) for a G1000 and a GNS430 do I find the RNAV capability information for an ICAO flight plan? What am I looking for?
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Why do I never see any other planes in the sky whilst flying?
I was just wondering as I passed the airport this morning why, whilst we are flying, do I never see any other planes nearby? There must be millions of planes and millions of people flying each day, I ...
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ERA runway close NOTAM [closed]
In the Flight Planning Stage
If enroute alternate airport runway close NOTAM isuue and its only the airport which in 60min circle on the flight route,
Should we find othere flight route or planning ...
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Why do airlines follow these routes between Barcelona and Düsseldorf?
In the wake of GermanWings' terrible incident of flight 9525, I have noticed that the crash location is quite far from the shortest route connecting the two airports.
I then went on FlightRadar24's ...
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What do you need to have onboard for flights with an ultralight/sport aircraft over water (Atlantic, Pacific)? Life raft possible (weight/size)?
Remark: For us in Germany an UL is a 2 seater with 470/600kg MTOW. AFAIK those are named Light Sport Aircraft in the US/Australia. Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikarus_C42
What do you use if ...
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How many alternates should I prepare PPL checkride cross country?
I have a PPL checkride and the first portion of the exam is a long cross-country journey of about 300 miles. I know I'm expecting a diversion in there somewhere. But in general and for checkride ...
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TAS from POH or e6b
I always calculated my TAS at any cruise altitude by
Using my planned cruise (pressure) altitude, temperature
Plug desired CAS, PA, temperature into e6b and get TAS
But I've also seen people get TAS ...
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CoG Envelope Calculation - Am I Doing Something Wrong?
I'm doing some pre-planning for a bush flight with the Icon A5, and I'm at CoG calculation.
This is the W&B form from the A5's POH:
I weigh 225 lbs. I'm simulating 111.6 lbs of gear which can be ...
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What is the purpose of including sea level pressure and temperature in a METAR?
In a METAR such as this one:
KGOK 161553Z AUTO 18011KT 4SM BR OVC007 07/05 A3011 RMK AO2 SLP201
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Jan 16, 1553Z, Automated. Mist, Wind from 180° at 11 knots, 4 statute
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What are Market Share, Market Size & yield in aviation network planning? [closed]
I came across the terms Market share, size & yield in aviation network planning. I don't really know what that means, anyone can provide me with a simplified explanation or maybe a reference where ...
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How to "address" a flight plan to additional stations
Airspace around the Swiss village of Davos is restricted as part of the World Economic Forum every year. The amendment to the Austrian AIP instructs pilots who would still like to cross the affected ...
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How to fix JeppView VFR charts font display [closed]
Some of the VFR charts printed by JeppView for Windows incorrectly display various letters on the map. This is especially visible in the NDB/DME designations ("INN", "PAT", "...
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How do I calculate the point of no return for a flight with multiple legs?
In every textbook where Points of No Return (PNR) are discussed (or at least, those I've read), the method of calculating them is always between point A to point B as a direct route. This is simple ...
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Number of US Commercial Aircraft versus Rest of the World
I have been trying to obtain information on the number of commercial passenger aircraft (i.e. jetliners) that US airline companies have compared with the number airlines for the whole rest of the ...
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How to calculate time-of-arrival of airplanes to a neighborhood of a position (with minimum probing)? [closed]
Suppose we have a position on earth with coordinates: (latitude, longitude). I'm looking for methods, algorithms or APIs to get a time alert that a plane would fly ...
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Can there be more than one airway with the same name in the world?
I was working on a programmed simulation of an FMC. I was wondering, regarding airways, if there can be more than one airway with the same name in the world.
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Why is the listed sectional for KEIK Cheyenne instead of Denver?
I'm confused why a municipal airport (KEIK in Erie, CO) lists Cheyenne as its appropriate sectional, instead of Denver?
It's just over 20nm WNW of KDEN under its outer class bravo shelf and is well ...
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