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Offline Jonathan_tcu

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Flight planning and high altitude sectors
« on: December 28, 2005, 05:05:29 PM »
Thanks to the genius who posted those worldwide flight planning maps.  I can  finally track the overnight oceanic flights from Montreal's to Gander's to Europe's airspaces.  Now I know where Pepki, and the rest of those airway fixes are.  

Can someone tell me if the controllers who work high altitude sectors are constantly on the 'hotlines' and always have a helper working a data board or radar screen?



Offline Scrapper

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Flight planning and high altitude sectors
« Reply #1 on: December 28, 2005, 05:56:38 PM »
same answer as my last message to you... depends on volume whether one person or many people are controlling... the sectors setting up oceanic clearances tend to be fairly busy though (and very different from radar control... since there's no way of seeing where the aircraft actually is... only where you cleared him, and you check that with his periodic position reports if he's where he's supposed to be...)  Communications are always monitored as far as I know, but the HF freqs are hard to listen to and I think most centres have a paging system for each flight (therefore the cockpit is not monitoring on a full time basis, but gets paged if they need to be spoken to...)

any oceanic pilots or controllers confirm or deny this for me?

On another note... do you have a URL for the stuff you speak of above? I would like to see what the oceanic airspace looks like...

Also, if anyone else out there knows any other URLs with other airspaces, I would be interested... I'm mostly interested in Terminal control (specifically montreal, but anything else as well), but also the enroute stuff

Happy holidays everyone...