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KnowledgeRoute planning, including consideration of:
Preferred routes
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- Chapter 2: En Route Operations › Preferred IFR Routes
Preferred IFR Routes Preferred IFR routes are established between busier airports to increase system efficiency and capacity. They normally extend through one or more ARTCC areas and are designed to achieve balanced traffic flows among high density terminals. IFR clearances ... issued on the basis of these routes except when severe weather avoidance procedures or other factors dictate otherwise. Preferred IFR routes are listed in the CS and can also be found on www.fly.faa.gov, which requires entering the following data: departure…
- Chapter 1: The National Airspace System › Other Routing
Other Routing Preferred IFR routes have been established between major terminals to guide pilots in planning their routes of flight, minimizing route changes, and aiding in the orderly management of air traffic on Federal airways. Low and high altitude preferred ... routes are listed in the Airport/Facility Directory (A/FD). To use a preferred route, reference the departure and arrival airports; if a routing exists for your flight, then airway instructions are listed. Tower En Route Control (TEC) is an ATC program…
- Chapter 10: IFR Flight › Sources of Flight Planning Information › Airport/Facility Directory (A/FD)
military fields, continuous power facilities, and special flight procedures. In the major terminal and en route environments, preferred routes have been established to guide pilots in planning their routes of flight, to minimize route changes ... orderly management of air traffic using the Federal airways. The A/FD lists both high and low altitude preferred routes…
- Chapter 2: En Route Operations › Substitute Airway or Route Structures
Figure 2-15 Preferred IFR routes. A system of preferred IFR routes helps pilots, flight crews, and dispatchers plan a route of flight to minimize route changes, and to aid in the efficient, orderly management of air traffic using Federal ... flow of air traffic in the major terminal and en route flight environments. Cooperation by all pilots in filing preferred routes results in fewer air traffic delays and better efficiency for departure, en route, and arrival air traffic service. [Figure…
- Pilot/Controller Glossary › A
Turn left heading two five zero,” “Go around,” “Clear the runway.” (Refer to 14 CFR part 91.) ATC PREFERRED ROUTE NOTIFICATION- EDST notification to the appropriate controller of the need to determine if an ATC preferred route needs ... applied, based on destination airport. (See ROUTE ACTION NOTIFICATION.) (See EN ROUTE DECISION SUPPORT TOOL.) ATC PREFERRED ROUTES- Preferred routes that are not automatically applied by Host. ATC REQUESTS- Used to prefix an ATC request when it is relayed…
- Pilot/Controller Glossary › P
Aircraft on approach receiving an alert may elect to go around or perform a wind shear escape maneuver. PREFERRED IFR ROUTES- Routes established between busier airports to increase system efficiency and capacity. They normally extend through one or more ARTCC ... issued on the basis of these routes except when severe weather avoidance procedures or other factors dictate otherwise. Preferred IFR Routes are listed in the Chart Supplement U.S., and are also available at https://www.fly.faa.gov/rmt/nfdc_preferred_routes_database.jsp. If a flight…