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    Two Flight Plan Questions

    in EFB v1 (Read only, no longer supported)

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    Neal,

     

    Question 1,

     

    Start EFB,

     

    The question about your route is now what your on about, there are a number of places to get routes and depending on where you fly. A couple of places are

     

    http://www.vroute.net/

     

    http://www.edi-gla.co.uk/fpl/login.php? ... /index.php

     

    the 2nd one are real world flightplans, now this is the clever part, find a route that you wish to fly and get the waypoints, ie for example, the route below is from Frankfurt to Heathrow

     

    EDDF N0442F320 SOBRA Y180 BITBU Y181 MAKIK UY181 DEMUL UM624 BUB UL608 LOGAN EGLL

     

    simply copy this

     

    now go back to EFB and press ROUTE SETUP then SELECT

     

    and paste the route into the box and press OK

     

    you should now have a route description etc, you can now save this and press activate, this will then start your EFB going, if you press Ground and as long as you are connected to IVAO or VATSIM within EFB and you press OTPV on the bottom menu you will see aircraft, select a gate with no aircraft on it and now connect to VATSIM/IVAO, this works in two ways, you have sorted out your flightplan and seen where aircraft are parked before you actually connect and all you have to do is prepare you aircraft for departure speak to any controller and your away.

     

    hope that helps

    Electronic Flight Bag & FSInn

    in EFB v1 (Read only, no longer supported)

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    EGFF DCT BCN UN864 NITON UY98 NOKIN UY99 RIBEL UN601 MARGO DCT EGPF

     

    in the route you file there is no need to put the airfields ie EGFF or EGPF as this is already filed elsewhere with your flight plan, and to be honest most controllers would probably delete it from your routing.

     

    The DCT part is an integral part of flight plans so this is acceptable, however if an airfield has SID/STARs then these would be the expected departure routing rather than a straight DCT, they shouldn't be refused but you may have to wait for spacing on departures as the SID's tend to be there to separate traffic and ensure an even traffic flow.

     

    the flight plan that Wycliffe filed has the 1st waypoint as BCN (Breacon), if you look at the charts for this, you will see that there is a number of different SID's available so just having BCN is the way that 99% of european flight plan are filed so there is no need to put the SID into the route, controllers can determine what SID you want by also knowing the departure runway as 1 goes hand in hand with the other.

     

    For Info,

     

    Many may not have installed controller clients to watch traffic but Euroscope utilises the information that the pilots enter to give the controller additional information based on what is filed, so having a standard routing helps them out especially when busy, so if controllers moan or say something is incorrect, then a quick question to them via text should get a sensible answer to what they expect.

     

    but to be honest if you filed your flight plans as below you shouldn't get any trouble from any controller anywhere in the world, as it shows exactly where you want to fly.

     

    BCN UN864 NITON UY98 NOKIN UY99 RIBEL UN601 MARGO

     

    happy to answer any questions that people want to know,

     

    Dave

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