>just a question before the planned route does it show fixes airways >etc then you can select by hand the route....just a question...Your question unfortunately is in an area of which I can't reveal details just yet. Its a feature that is unique enough (well I think so anyway) for competitive reasons I need to keep it under wraps until the program is closer to release.I think it will be Beta sometime in June, so towards the end of the month I will be able to reveal more details and answer more questions (but don't hold me to any of that !!).Hope you understand.Regards.Ernie.

Search AVSIm for Mark McGrath's EGLL-KLAX (AAL178 I think)- it's a plan for the PIC with lots of ETOPS stuff for the PIC FMC...very cool!Rob.

Phil,The route you posted above,, I understand most of what is on that routing format and centainly enough to grab off the route but can you porvide a link to a "tutorial" or an "aid" for understanding all of it? It would be interesting to not only know what is on there but why and how it is used.Thanks in advance,

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Taking a stab at this..........> FLT PLAN: EGLL/KLAX MACH:M80 A/C: B763 Not much to explain - the plan has been calculated for M.80 in a B763.> ETD: 02/22.00ZEstimated departure time - The Second fo the month at 2200Z. They use this for all of the enroute calculations.The next section is for the fuel, time, and weight. This particular plan appears to be metric.> FUEL TIME CORR TOGWT LDGWT AVG W/C> DEST KLAX 058025 10.47 ------ 185519 127857 M010For the destination (KLAX) you need 58025 kg if fuel - that should be enough fuel for 10 hours 47 minutes - the next two number I think are Takeoff and Landing Gross Weight.> RESV 003286 00.45 ------Another 3286 kg for reserves (45 minutes worth).> ALTN 001589 00.20 ------ ALTN KONT DIST 0068 W/C P001Ontario (KONT) is the filed alternate - you need another 1589kg of fuel (20 mins worth) and it is 68nm from the filed destination (KLAX).> HOLD 002159 00.30 ------Another 2159kg (30 mins) for holding time.> REQD 065059 12.22 ------ BOW 091000 PAYLOAD 029823Now you get a subtotal from the above - 65059kg of fuel (12 hrs 22 mins worth). I think BOW is the empty weight (I only use ZFW) and the other obviously is the payload - I guess adding the two gives you the ZFW.> EXTRA 000000 00.00 ------No extra fuel> TAXI 000363363 kg for Taxi time (I think it's 10 mins worth).> TTL AT BO 065059 12.32 ------ DIST 4808So the total to fill is 65059 kg (12 hrs 32 misn worth) and the distance is 4808 nm.> EGLL BUZ3J BUZAD UT420 WELIN UA2 TNT UP6 MIMKU DCT 60N020W DCT> 63N030W DCT 64N040W DCT 64N050W DCT 63N060W DCT FEDDY N532E HML> J107 HEC YENNI1 KLAXThe filed route, DCT is DIRECT and not a waypoint.> EGLL/0340/IRLAV/0350No idea what this means. Perhaps some sort of clearance?>SUMMARY 10.40 FL 30 B/O 058209 PL 029823 TOW 185519 CRZ M80>SUMMARY 10.51 FL 28 B/O 059110 PL 029823 TOW 185519 CRZ M80Not sure why there are 2 summaries .> EGLL2200Leaving at 2200>N0469F340 DCT D10LON DCT BUZAD UT420 WELIN UA2 TNT UP6>MIMKU/M080F340 DCT 60N020W 63N030W 64N040W 64N050W 63N060W DCT>FEDDY/N0467F340 N532E IRLAV/N0462F350 N532E HML J107 HEC YENNI1The filed route again this time with planned altitudes and speed enroute, so "MIMKU/M080F340" means planned to cross MIMKU at 467 knots (I think that it True Air Speed, but maybe its IAS) and FL340.> KLAX1047 KONT Planned arrival LAX at 1047Z - Ontario is the alternate.>EET/EGPX0043 EISN0053 EGPX0057 EGGX0109 BIRD0221 CZQX0420CZUL0447 CZWG0601 KZMP0743 KZDV0827 KZLC0859 KZLA0954Planned times (UTC) to enter each of these ARTCC/FIR.>MIMKU0109 60N020W0207 63N030W0252 64N040W0327 64N050W040163N060W0436Planned times to cross each of the Oceanic waypoints.One thing you see a lot in other flight plans (possibly Phil just posts the summary) is:- a listing at the bottom of ALL waypoints and their LAT/LONG coordinatesEGLL N51287W000277 D259G N51275W000388 D265K N51273W000453- a summary of estimated speed, time, and weight at each waypoint while enrouteCPT FL T WIND S TAS MCS AWY DST ETE CT ETA ZFU FF/EFREQ TRO TDV COMP GRS MH MSA DSTR ATE ACT ATA EFR AFR ------------------------------------------------------------------TREVR 490 67 25029 2 466 102 .. 179 0023 0812 0008 01080 49 M10 P017 483 105 010 0526 0050- a summary of the equipment on board the aircraft.> B763/H-SXDIGHJRWY/S B763 - A boeing 763 /H - Heavy Aircraft S - Standard IFR Avionics X - ?? D - DME I - Inertial Navigation system G - GPS H - HF Radio J - Datalink R - ?? RNAV ?? RVSM ?? Y - 8.33 capability /S - Mode S Transponder- Field elevation (MSL) for the departure, destination and alternate airports.Phew - I hope I got that right, I feel like I just took an exam .Ian Elchitz.

you get it...."EGLL/0340/IRLAV/0350No idea what this means. Perhaps some sort of clearance?"this is not clearance but the fl calaulated for this flight meaning you may be at fl340 after tod direct and after irlav fl 350...">SUMMARY 10.40 FL 30 B/O 058209 PL 029823 TOW 185519 CRZ M80>SUMMARY 10.51 FL 28 B/O 059110 PL 029823 TOW 185519 CRZ M80Not sure why there are 2 summaries ."why ???? it gives an interesting flying if during all flight i stay at fl300 ill need 58209 same for fl280 and 59110 so you ll need to dig into resv to do that as i do not recalculate for each fl....so you re right also i do not post all plan but only the summary but everybody using fms can type it...happy flyin' now study and exam is over...you can ask any flight but not before sunday night at lfpg timesee youphil

Tried searching for the EGLL-KLAX AAL178....nothing came backAny other ideas where to locate ?

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