Two advantages of a plotting chart?
Fairly new to flying Oceanic and my company procedure is to use plotting charts. Happy to do that despite a small number of ex KLM Quantas and GSS instructors who are adamant that plotting charts are a 30 year old relic.
The two main justifications (apart from SOP adherence) appear to be
1- An FMS typing ability check .....if lat and longs entered incorrectly the chart would (eventually) show you are off track.
( I wonder also if with the lido flight planning system it is possible for the ATC flight plan info to be incorrectly transferred onto the flight log)?
2- That you have an awareness of the heading to turn onto in the event of a forced descent perpendicular to all the NAT tracks ( we fly random routes above tracks).
The no chart brigade counter
1- that the thickness of a pencil line is greater than the new GNE 10NM distance....so it would be too late by the time you noticed it....and that ADS would mean a message from the ground would be sent to you before then ( although I'm not sure what level of track deviation this represents...mini GNE.).
2- That entering it into route page two or keeping a copy of the sig weather / NAT track overlay also covers this.
Interested in views from across this spectrum.
Last edited by alosaurus; 15th Apr 2017 at 16:40.
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