Question about Commercial Airplanes?

Question

When filing a flight plan on Flight Sim X, It gives the option of Direct GPS, Low Altitude Airways, High Altitude Airways, and VOR to VOR. What is the differences between the four and which are most commonly used in real life by commercial airliners?

Answer 1

Assuming the route in question is a short range US domestic route, the flight would be using high altitude airways. These are airways defined by VORs with greater range than the low altitude VORs that are used to define low altitude airways. Various iPad and iPhone free apps have examples of low and high altitude airways, approaches, Standard Terminal Arrival Routes (STARs) and Standard Instrument Departures (SIDs) as well as various VFR charts.



The difference between high and low altitude airways is mainly in the length of the portions between VORs and are mainly designed to facilitate flight between population centers at altitudes from 18,000 ft to FL450. Direct GPS is a flight sim thing which simplifies navigation by routing you directly from one point or airport to another. VOR to VOR is what it sounds like, a routing which ignores airways and routes you from one VOR facility to another. In reality all of these types of routing can and are used in aviation (I'm generalizing here). High altitude airways routing would be used by turbine and jet aircraft including airliners, low altitude airways by piston aircraft. Direct GPS routing is used by everybody so equipped when approved by ATC (at least part of the way), and VOR to VOR when direct vectors or GPS is not approved or unavailable.



Keep in mind that the ATC system is complicated as a look at the airways charts will show and most flights in most aircraft use a combination of the types you note plus in various cases, ATC vectors, off airways direct when VFR. I would suggest that if you are looking for more realism you first obtain some airways charts from a local airport pilot shop, have someone explain the basics of reading them and try out some simple navigation using the charts with flight sim x.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

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