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Old 28th August 2008, 02:39   #3 (permalink)
Pilot Pete
 
Join Date: Aug 2000
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Best route may not be straight ahead, but how do you decide in a hurry?
It's called situational awareness, which good pilots constantly update as they fly along. Oxygen escape charts for mountainous terrain also play a part....

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EGPWS, with suitable software might help.
There is no such thing as EGPWS without suitable software, so I don't understand that part of your statement, but you would be a fool to use EGPWS as a planning tool to get yourself down to FL100 or below in mountainous terrain.

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