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Pushback - How do you know the distance to the main taxiway?

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Title says it all. Any help would be appreciated.Thanks in advance.

Arjen Vandervelde

Trial & error. at my hub, I missed taxiway centerline 5 times, but now I know exact distance :) Lj. Prodanovic

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Ok, but the question was, how do you know this? Maybe you understood my question wrong. When you're programming the Pushback page because you want to be pushed back (obviously), how to you know which distance to enter? I just enter a guessed distance, which isn't always precice at all.Arjen Vandervelde

Arjen Vandervelde

Short answer; you don't know.Trial and error. A good practice is measuring how long your plane is in external view, then put in an arbitrary distance like 50 feet.See how far the plane travels, and then adjust distance again until the plane pushes back exactly 1 plane length. From there you can easily judge distance using the length of your plane.

AJ Pongress

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The top down view can be a great help for situational awareness !! (F12) Fred.

Frederic Steiner.

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Well, I never had problems with guessed distance! No problem for me. sssilvabr

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consider the length of your aircraft when looking at the top down view. Use it as a ruler so to speak.

Walter Trester

you can also stop wheever you feel like your going to end up i nthe grass or crashing into another parked aircraft

Jamal Pratt

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