Airway width/wx deviation

[Slo Moe]

Some thoughts about procedural clearances

In the ACC a typical procedural clearance could be:
"Follow airway UN472, maintain FL360, report passing (fix) QWERTY"
And although they might not give radar service, (No "Radar contact" or "identified" etc.)
they can have radar to monitor your flight.

As a pilot you could write the above (to help you write it down a bit faster)
"UN472, F360, RP QWERTY". These kinds of abbreviations the ATCOs use,
if they are not putting all your flight details on the label of the radar screen.

In a procedural approach a typical departure clearance could be:

After departure expect left turn. Follow radial 175 from XYZ VOR.
Maintain 3 thousand feet. At distance 10 DME XYZ VOR climb to FL 140.
When passing 6000 feet cleared direct to YUIOP.

So if you want to write this down a bit faster, you could do it like this:

LT,
V175XYZ,
3.0/D10XYZ,
´I` F140 (The character ´I` here represents an "UP" arrow, my keyboard does not have that)
6.0/DCT YUIOP

And you are supposed to fly from departure a left turn, climb to 3000 feet
following radial 175. On that radial you climb to FL140. When passing 6000
feet you are "cleared to leave the radial" direct to YUIOP.

And although they might not give radar service, (No "Radar contact" or "identified" etc.)
they can have radar to monitor your flight.