V Australia to fly to South Africa, Thailand

[halas]

Unless they have some form of dispensation, l don't think YPCC could be used as an ETOPS suitable airport for a 777. The pavement strength alone is good for emergency use only.

halas

[neville_nobody]

Well if that's the case then I'd be buggered as to how they'd do it, as they would only be heading further north and off track. The next nearest alternate would be Male I'd assume.

[halas]

They may get approval for Diego Garcia? Dunno.

Otherwise Jakarta, Medan, Male, Seychelles and Mauritius are the go after crossing the coast and leaving Perth and Learmonth behind.

halas

[Going Boeing]

Halas, I suspect that they have been given a dispensation to use Cocos. The RAAF P3's have been using Cocos for many years and they have a very high pavement requirement - approx 190psi tyres on a single axle. V Oz will probably never actually go there, so a dispensation to use it as an emergency alternate is realistic.

[slice]

180 EDTO coverage is YPPH WIII FJDG FIMP FAJS which means coming up to about 20S.

[Transition Layer]

And this is the end result



(taken from the tripler IFE system)

[Capt Fathom]

Wouldn't be too keen on following that Red Line!

[ga_trojan]

So what happened on Transition Layers flight?? They're way south of the 21st parallel!

[Capt Fathom]

I would suggest the IFE plots departure point to present position, rather than the actual route flown!