- flight planning -

aerad chart

what do you know about the flight planning ?
Based on the title, you might get some ideas regard it.
Basically, it could be divided into 2 different segments. The fuel planning and as well as the en-route planning. I'd like to concern on En-route planning.

First and foremost, the aircraft is not flying to the destination based on the pilots' sense. Every route got its airway and pattern. It's similar just like to driving a car. For example, from my house in Cheras to Mid Valley, it does need to get through several roads. It does the same thing to flight as well. Airway is actually similar to highway. Every airway has its designated title. Based on the aerad chart, we could find out the routes to our destination even the distance and duration for the whole flight with concerns on wind component, aircraft's speed and altitude as well. Furthermore, we do need to take advices from Air Traffic Controller, so we will avoid all the traffics along the flight.

On the chart, you can see that there are lots of lines

these are airways, quite confusing right ?

The circles indicates the Radio Navigation stations

- drew -