Memorizing airways
 

I'm about to move up from a tower to the ACC. Any advice on how best to memorize airways, fixes, and MEA's?

Ken

Unless it's a very high ACC, or your last tower was below sea level, how do you move "up" to an ACC?:D :E ;)

I suspect he was talking about the pay ;)

Bd

I think they are called "wild cards"

Prepare cards with the name of the airway/NAVaid/whatever on one side and details on the other. Shuffle the cards and try to tell whats on the other side of the card. Easier with two people. (helps both ways as you get to identify the airway from route points or get to name the route points from the name)

Get a map with the points and airways drawn but no names. Pick a card and try to point it out on the map.

helped me, hope it helps you.

regards

Draw the map over and over and over. I always found that about the time I started to get really angry with the map, I also pretty much had it memorized. It also helped me to break maps up into quadrants and memorize it that way. Then when I moved on to learn the next quadrant, the previous one seemed friendly and familiar in comparison. Funny things, these brains...

I lost the plot when they gave up naming them after colours . . . . . :(

Start on the first VOR in your airspace and draw the airways on only that VOR until you have them memorized and then move to the next VOR. Keep doing this and soon you will have your airspace memorized. Thats what worked for me when I worked at Kansas City ARTCC here in the states.

Dan

Vintage ATCO

Why did we stop using colours? Life was so much more poetic when Blue 1 crossed Amber 1 but Green 1 was miles down to the South.

Sorry; thread drift.

Gunson had it right, "Up the Amber one, right onto the Green one, then back on the Red one."
Simpler times, simpler controllers?

Is this thread a wind up?
I'm about to learn Italian how should I memorise all the vocabulary?

I'm with you there, vintage ATCO.

Long live the colours!! So pretty, don't ya think?

The Purple ones were tricky blighters, suddenly appearing from nowhere!

Exactly! (now padding out to 10 characters: hang on, wasn't Mickey Mouse a character?)

Strangely enough, coloured airways went at about the same time that coloured radar screens appeared. Spooky coincidence?

What's Italian for Purple?

Why bother? They will only go and change the names of them within a year or two. I've been valid for over 20 years and still don't have a clue what half the airways that pass through my airspace are called. Just pray that there are some decent maps on your console...

How did you learn all the holding points on your airport....and all the local points that pilots seem to be able to find!?

VIOLA

:bored: :)

Pronounced: vjola
Italian is a phonetic language so learn the alphabet and you are pretty much there.
Italy have always been in B&W BTW. Upper Blue 23 was always Uniform Bravo 23. ;)

Thanks for the ideas. I think the "one VOR at a time" approach will work well for me. As for all the crazy reporting points, I do word associations in my head. Tackle one little piece at a time.

Ken

......Ciao!