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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
Geography (eg. ...
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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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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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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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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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