Recent content by luvflyin

Proceed is used in conjuction with Vectoring. FLY HEADING (degrees). WHEN ABLE, PROCEED DIRECT (name of fix). A few years back I submitted a Change to the 7110.65 suggesting the phraseology CLEARED DIRECT be dropped and replaced with PROCEED DIRECT for all the reasons discussed here. I...

Yup.

Used to be when you hovered over your Avatar in the upper right where your name, an envelope and the bell are, a menu would drop down with things to do, one of which was 'your content.' It's not dropping down any more. Why?

Not Always. a. Clearance limit (if any part of the route beyond a clearance limit differs from the last routing cleared, issue the route the pilot can expect beyond the clearance limit). PHRASEOLOGY− EXPECT FURTHER CLEARANCE VIA (routing). EXAMPLE− “Expect further clearance via direct...

And pilots with lazy controllers

b. Clearance limit. 1. When the clearance limit is an airport, the word “airport” must follow the airport name. PHRASEOLOGY− CLEARED TO (destination) AIRPORT. 2. When the clearance limit is a NAVAID, and the NAVAID type is known, the type of NAVAID must follow the NAVAID name. PHRASEOLOGY−...

It plays out with a big pay out from you to them. Maybe things have changed, but that was my experience with a GNC300XL many moons ago.

One engine or two.

Me to. Ya can jump in with punchlines right away without having to be nice. I’ll give the pilot a good job on this one. Please tell me he didn’t just run outta gas because he didn’t have enough in the plane.

Maybe like a 172 or lot of other similar sized planes with the right and the rear seats removed. There’ll be some CG issues. You’d probably have to do a weighing and get that re calculated. You’ll end up with a little more payload.

One thing to add to that. You may get a ‘released at’ time as well as a void time. It’s called a window.

Good citation

“…Do they enter such things into the computer and it plots a course line? Does that line get passed on to controllers in the following sectors…” Some Radars had the ability to throw up a course line. Probably almost all nowadays. You wouldn’t leave it on the scope, just do it to get a picture...