Howto series: Airways in custom flight plan?

[arrex 5]

Dears,

just pure curiosity (no new feature request here). I noticed that if i do an autoroute, LNM will fill also the column of airways, and they get properly exported in the simulator later. Is there any trick to do it also for manually created plans?

Also a curiosity: from what i noticed, they type of flightplan created (high altitude, low altitude, vor-vor or direct) seems to follow this logic:

1. IFR > ~18000 --> that flag is set to "high altitude"

2. IFR < ~18000 --> that flag is set to "low altitude"

3. VFR --> that flag is set to "direct"

Did I get it correctly?

 

[albar965 1,047]

2 hours ago, arrex said:

just pure curiosity (no new feature request here). I noticed that if i do an autoroute, LNM will fill also the column of airways, and they get properly exported in the simulator later. Is there any trick to do it also for manually created plans?

Currently there no way to add airways manually. No matter if you request a manually planning mode or not, it is already on my list.🙃
But you can select a range of flight plan legs and then calculate a plan between them if this helps.

2 hours ago, arrex said:

Also a curiosity: from what i noticed, they type of flightplan created (high altitude, low altitude, vor-vor or direct) seems to follow this logic:

1. IFR > ~18000 --> that flag is set to "high altitude"

2. IFR < ~18000 --> that flag is set to "low altitude"

3. VFR --> that flag is set to "direct"

Did I get it correctly?

Depends how you create the plan (route description, import, calculate, ...) and what LNM version you use.

Alex

[arrex 5]

1 hour ago, albar965 said:

Currently there no way to add airways manually. No matter if you request a manually planning mode or not, it is already on my list.🙃
But you can select a range of flight plan legs and then calculate a plan between them if this helps.

Oh, good luck with adding the function 🙂

Good idea to select only the portion i want to assign to airways and do auto-calculation. It works indeed. A bit clumsy, but does the job.
 

1 hour ago, albar965 said:

Depends how you create the plan (route description, import, calculate, ...) and what LNM version you use.

Oh, I see.... never used route description method.... do it manually is a mess and from external planners online implies to use Navigraph DB, which I am not.

 

[albar965 1,047]

4 minutes ago, arrex said:

Oh, I see.... never used route description method.... do it manually is a mess and from external planners online implies to use Navigraph DB, which I am not.

You can also use this with a plain simulator database. Most important part is that sim and LNM navdata are on the same cycle which they are if you let LNM select the navdata automatically (results in mode "Do not use Navigraph Database" if not updated).

Alex

[arrex 5]

3 minutes ago, albar965 said:

You can also use this with a plain simulator database. Most important part is that sim and LNM navdata are on the same cycle which they are if you let LNM select the navdata automatically (results in mode "Do not use Navigraph Database" if not updated).

That's true.... but then I have to specify the route manually, which is not so straight-forward... i thought that option was to import by services like simbrief (but then you need to use the most updated airacs....)

 

[albar965 1,047]

Just now, arrex said:

That's true.... but then I have to specify the route manually, which is not so straight-forward... i thought that option was to import by services like simbrief (but then you need to use the most updated airacs....)

Yep. It's cumbersome to build a route there but it's mostly for import from other sources, right.

[Gason71 128]

2 hours ago, arrex said:

That's true.... but then I have to specify the route manually, which is not so straight-forward... i thought that option was to import by services like simbrief (but then you need to use the most updated airacs....)

 

You can also use free SKYVECTOR - where are all airways from the current AIRAC database, and then manually add points to the flight plan 🙂

Regards,
Piotr