Questions tagged [flight-plans]

The prefiled planned route between departure and arrival airports

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What is the reason for this unusual flight path?

Last week, flight AA9675 flew from MIA to TUL. It took this very unusual flight path: It's an ad hoc flight number, so it's not a regularly scheduled flight. You can see there was a line of thunderstorms moving across at the time. But that alone…
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How much do "Preferred Routes" matter for non-airliners?

So, full disclaimer that this may be a IRL vs. VATSIM thing, but I'm curious about how difficult it is to get cleared for an IFR flight plan that takes a (literally) scenic route? E.G. I want to go KBOS to KORH. The preferred route for this is…
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Flight Plan - Rights of use and distribution to third parties

Currently we have in mind a meteorological project, specially designed for pilots and aviation professionals, for which, the only thing that we currently lack is to have the flight plans. It seems to be (as Eurocontrol tells us) that flight plan…
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How to read this step climb profile? FL STEPS CYUL/0330/TUDEP/0340/NETKI/0350

How to read this step climb profile? FL STEPS CYUL/0330/TUDEP/0340/NETKI/0350 I know CYUL is departing point but what do 0330 represents? The altitude in Feet?
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Basic question regarding flight levels

Dear fellas I'm building a program to simulate flight plans, for academic purposes and, I have read a lot about flight levels and specifications but I need to be absolutely sure of what I am doing. The reading that I have made always mentions the…