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 ;)
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Originally Posted by niknak
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 ;)
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...
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I lost the plot when they gave up naming them after colours . . . . . :(
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Originally Posted by Kenny Rogers
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 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!
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Exactly! (now padding out to 10 characters: hang on, wasn't Mickey Mouse a character?)
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Strangely enough, coloured airways went at about the same time that coloured radar screens appeared. Spooky coincidence?
What's Italian for Purple? |
Originally Posted by Kenny Rogers
Any advice on how best to memorize airways, fixes, and MEA's?
Ken |
How did you learn all the holding points on your airport....and all the local points that pilots seem to be able to find!?
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Originally Posted by Dances with Boffins
Strangely enough, coloured airways went at about the same time that coloured radar screens appeared. Spooky coincidence?
What's Italian for Purple? VIOLA :bored: :) |
Originally Posted by LXGB
VIOLA
:bored: :) 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!
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Coloured Airways. If a picture is worth a thousand words, a coloured picture...? Ahh days gone by
One for all the, older slightly worn, anoraks. You might be familiar with Purple Airways, but what was (is?) a Pink Airway? |
The Dutch government requires that a percentage of the cost of any new public building be dedicated to the provision of artwork.
When the "new" TWR/APP block was built at EHBK around 1990 a number of coloured aluminium tubes were suspended from the ceiling of the Briefing Office to represent the Airways ( a red one, a green one, a blue one - you get the picture). The day before the official opening, somebody (no names, no pack drill) inserted a length of plain aluminium pipework into the display. Nobody even seemed to notice it, and it remained there for quite a while.Airway Alminum One |
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