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Dave Butler wrote in message ...
Casey Wilson wrote: It just occurred to me that when I list a Radial/Distance point in DUATS as part of a route, DUATS converts it to Lat/Lon. Maybe that's a hint that Lat/Lon is preferred. ...to which snowbird replied: Hmmmm...we use DUATS to file all the time, and have never observed this. Can you give more details? ... and then paul k sanchez said: snip Here is the route that we file about 1 x week every monday morning. Flight Plan FXE - LBE ARKES PHK J53 CRG SSI090004 SVN270003 EDS270002 MMT CTF270019 CLT090020 GSO270019 PSK120028 ROA270001 LWB120020 EKN120018 MGW120013 IHD300006 .... Was it your intent to respond to Snowbird's request for for an example? I think she was asking for an example of how "DUATS converts it to Lat/Lon" [for flight plan filing purposes]. Its' true that in your example the radial/distance entries are converted to lat/lon Dave, Exactly -- I was asking for an example of what Casey said he saw, DUATS converting a VOR radial-distance to lat-long as part of a flight plan. We use DUATS to file GPS direct flight plans all the time. The sort of thing Paul posted is very familiar, though I wouldn't file it exactly as DUATS spits it out, because one doesn't typically need that many waypoints to adequately define the route and if a partial rerouting is necessary it's a PITA for ATC to have to read all those VOR radial distances. 1 or 2 per center will suffice. Anyway, point is: while it's true DUATS flight planner will *add* lat-longs to the VOR-radial distance output, I've never seen a DUATS flight plan which was submitted as some combination of VOR radial-distance and other waypoints, converted into lat-long before being filed. The converted lat/lons appear only in the flight log DUAT spits out for your convenience, and are not part of the ATC flight plan. Exactly. I wouldn't even say they're "converted", they're just "added"; the VOR radial/distances are still there. Cheers, Sydney (still trying to figure out where I need to file lat-longs, outside the Gulf of Mexico grid.....) |
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