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IFR routes with DCT headings, Shall DCT be between WP or not


Goran Anckers
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Goran Anckers
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Today I did meat a flight on opposite (wrong) direction of my IFR HiWay who was flying DCT "Abama dct Sallo", but his flightplan just say "Abama Sallo".

 

My question is if DCT should be put between the to waypoints in a flightplan, or not? -like this "ABAMA DCT SALLO"?

 

As I see it, VROUTE program always do DCT in flightplans, when there is, and that makes the way of the flightplan clearer for other Pilots when there is no ATC on line.

 

Are you even allowed to fly DCT, when no ATC?

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Don Desfosse
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I understand yes for many places in the world, but NOT in the US!

Don Desfosse
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Evan Reiter
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I understand yes for many places in the world, but NOT in the US!

This is changing with the use of the ICAO flight plan. As much as I hate it, the airlines are using this format in the flight plans we file. I know both ACA and JBU are using "DCT" with IFR/ICAO ATC flight plans. However, when I look at FlightAware, those don't appear (and I understand flight strips don't show "DCT" either). So, perhaps there's some sort of parsing that takes place at the FAA level to remove them.

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Evan Reiter
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Robert Shearman Jr
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Aesthetically my feeling is that the DCT notations are extraneous & messy. But on the other hand, there is something to be said for the logical flow of "point, route, point, route, point," etcetera.

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-R.

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1275389
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Do you flightplans just show a blank space or rather 2 dots like ".." ?

Just spaces.

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Camden Bruno
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I understand yes for many places in the world, but NOT in the US!

This is changing with the use of the ICAO flight plan.

Cam B.
VATSIM Supervisor

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Matthew Bartels
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ICAO standard is to have DCT in the flight plan and not a space. A space is the equivalent of the dot in the US FPL format

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