How Do Pilot Make......

[Air France]

How do pilots make their route for the flight, why choose this VOR and not this one ect........

Am using FSnavigator and i want to make a real Route

Am flying with Air France.


Thank You,
Clement

[WBHoenig]

The airline assigns the routes to fly. The pilots have no say in it.

[Air France]

Then how does the airline assigns routes???

[Covoxer]

If you fly big aircraft:
1. Follow airways.
2. Select the shortest way possible.
These are two simplest rules to keep it realistic.

[eazy]

If you use FsNav try to let it compute your flightplan along airways. Enter departure and destination, then click the "generate flightplan"
button (somewhere among the icons on top) and select high altitude airways or low altitude airways, depending on what flight level you
plan to fly. FsNav computes the legs and altitude based on the cruise level that's defined with the aircraft. You can change that later (also
one of the top buttons). You can also display airways in map mode, that's the "L" and "H" buttons on the right side of the map.

[runibl]

Clement312 wrote:
Then how does the airline assigns routes???

I have been wondering about this also, I would suspect that they use some special program.
Does anyone know excactly how the airline assigns route for the pilots?

[Air France]

Covoxer,

Where can i find a Map with Airways???

[Air France]

If i fly at like 33,0000 FT is that High airways or Low??

[Drew]

thats very very high

33,000 thou, will be high airways

[Drew]

i now use this....

http://rfinder.asalink.net/free/

and then enter each of the waypoints that it produces into fsnav

[Medic_Pilot]

Clement312 wrote:
If i fly at like 33,0000 FT is that High airways or Low??

By definition Low airways are those that exist below 18,000 feet. High airways are those that start at FL180 (18,000) and extend up to
FL600. This is in the US.

Greg



Post Edited ( 01-16-06 19:46 )

[ivo]

Wait, I'm confused. When you're in FS and looking at the defualt planner and you click on an airway, it says an altitude like 17,000ft or
something else. Does that mean that I can only fly at 17,000ft while I'm using that airway.

And, is there a way to program the FMC to use airways?

[KenG]

In the real world the dispatcher does all of the work. This is usually through sophisticated airline specific software and their knowledge of
operating rules and regulations. For more information see: http://www.dispatcher.org/

In reality the airlines have it the easiest. The real work is done by the Captains of Corporate Aviation (and the handful of GA pilots) who must plan
and operate flights with the same accuracy often with much less information or the dedicated experience of airline dispatchers. While domestic flights
are easy as many of the routing options are based on the basics learned as an instrument student and years of experience flying the federal airspace
system. Things become much harder when it is time to fly internationally and in fact the FAA does require training prior to operating an aircraft in
international airspace. This training may take the form of searching out an applicably knowledgeable CFI or AGI and getting an endorsement to special
course of instruction taught by companies such as Simuflite or FlightSafety. The IPC or International Procedures Course is generally a week long of
academics to teach the basics of operating internationally.

[WBHoenig]

Drew wrote:
i now use this....

http://rfinder.asalink.net/free/

and then enter each of the waypoints that it produces into fsnav

Me, too. It always seems to work well with the PMDG fmc, unlike the default flight planner's routes.

[runibl]

WBHoenig wrote:

Drew wrote:
i now use this....

http://rfinder.asalink.net/free/

and then enter each of the waypoints that it produces into fsnav

Me, too. It always seems to work well with the PMDG fmc, unlike the default flight planner's routes.

I too use that, it works very well. I also use http://flightaware.com/analysis/route.rvt for actual flights in USA, and http://www.fsroute.com/ for
exporting the flights.