airway width
for goodness sake, how wide are these airways.
These days, you would assume it's 1mm given GPS capability.
Like I said, why aren't the airways 25 nm wide (don't tell me OZ is such a small place that we need airways 1mm wide - spare me)
Anywhere +/- 20 nm should be considered "on track".
And then we could divert "within the airway" without an ATC clearance.
Wouldn't need to get the ATC approval to divert due weather which quite frankly, we are going to do anyway "as my responsibility for the safety of the aircraft".
Would save us a lot of hassle.
Maybe we should all turn off CPDLC.