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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 …