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Use this tag for questions regarding UTC, zulu time, daylight savings time, or flight time.

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Why does aviation use Zulu time instead of the local time?

India time zone: UTC + 9 Kilo time zone: UTC + 10 Lima time zone: UTC + 11 Mike time zone: UTC + 12 November time zone: UTC - 1 ... … X-ray time zone: UTC - 11 Yankee time zone: UTC - 12 Zulu time zone: UTC + 0 However, the other time zones are seldom referenced in aviation. Why do we use UTC time instead of local time? …
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How to calculate estimated flight time?

In fact, flight time estimation is so complicated that we use software to calculate them. No sane human-being will go through all the data to calculate flight time today. … Note that I did not take into account: Taxi time: the time it takes to move the aircraft between the gate and the runway on the ground Holding time: the time which flights are asked to fly in circles …
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