Sometimes just knowing the preferred route isn’t enough. You need the secret code for putting that route into the system.
Filing for a Lat/Long
Every year I fly from my home base at Rock Hill, S.C., to Fond du Lac, Wisc., for the Oshkosh AirVenture fly-in. I normally take a route east of both Cincinnati and Chicago, which takes me over Lake Michigan. As I near the lake, I always get the following re-route: Cleared direct Pullman, then via the Pullman 333 radial to intercept V510, Falls, direct Fond du Lac.
Key Takeaways:
- The article highlights the challenge of accurately programming complex air traffic control (ATC) re-routes, especially those involving VOR radial intercepts, into GPS navigators and flight planning software.
- The author devised methods to create user-defined waypoints in his GPS and then successfully file them using specific `VORrrrddd` or Latitude/Longitude formats in flight plans.
- Modern flight planning applications, such as ForeFlight, have simplified this process by automatically generating and coding complex user waypoints as latitude/longitude coordinates for flight plan submission.
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