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Does the Enroute Phase begin at a 30NM distance from the departure airport?
You are not getting anything wrong, I think you are simply overthinking something that isn’t actually important. The 30nm distinction is somewhat arbitrary, and presumably captures most arrival and ...
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What is the difference between en-route delays and airport delays?
The delays you mentioned are imposed by Eurocontrol to manage traffic flow all over Europe:
Even when an aircraft is ready to depart, it may still be delayed by ‘flow management’ (ATFM). You may ...
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If an aircraft diverts to another airport for mechanical reasons, does the dispatcher create a new flight plan?
The purpose of an IFR flight plan is to tell the controllers where the plane wants to fly. Once the pilots start talking to the ATC and get their initial clearance, the routing can be amended any time ...
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If an aircraft diverts to another airport for mechanical reasons, does the dispatcher create a new flight plan?
No, there's no new flight plan created for the diversion. An engine-out is an emergency situation, the pilot takes whatever action they feel is needed to save the plane, and the paperwork can wait ...
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What does an "X flagged" VOR mean on an en-route IFR chart?
The X in a flag for a intersection, waypoint or fix regardless of if it is a NavAid means there is a Minimum Crossing Altitude. An MCA present means you must be at or above a certain altitude when ...
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Can you change airways when they cross without a named fix?
Yes one can fly one airway to intercept another. Many reasons exist as to why not all intersecting airways have an intersection, the simplest being, it wasn't necessary.
I will suspect one may ...
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What do the Airway Letters and the following numbers mean?
RCTP - Taipei, Taiwan Airport
AJENT SID - Standard Instrument Departure leading to the Navigation fix named AJENT
MKG - fly to the MAGONG VOR Navigation beacon
A1 - follow airway A1
ANPOG - until the ...
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What kind of waypoints/routes are used to prepare a flight plan in practice?
If you go to Skyvector.com and enter Departure and Destination airports, then select Routes, it will show you a preferred routing using waypoints that I think tries to use airways when possible.
If ...
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What kind of waypoints/routes are used to prepare a flight plan in practice?
Another way to see what routes are typically used for IFR flights in the US is to use the FlightAware IFR Route Analyzer. You can enter an origin and destination to see the routes from flight plans ...
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What kind of waypoints/routes are used to prepare a flight plan in practice?
Routes were traditionally built using SIDs, airways and STARs, not individual waypoints (aka fixes).
From the departure airport, there will typically be multiple Standard Instrument Departure routes, ...
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What kind of waypoints/routes are used to prepare a flight plan in practice?
In real life the flight planning process starts with where you are, where you are going, and then you make decisions on routing based on considerations such as weather, terrain, alternate airfields, ...
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Is the Common Route, either of a SID or a STAR, related to the Runway Transition (climb phase) or the Enroute Transition (enroute phase)?
This took some digging.
There seems to be some mixing of the terms in the question, using different publications, mixing between STARS and SIDs, and maybe neglecting to read the textual route ...
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