RODOS Flight planning system
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Joined: Jul 2004
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I worked with Rodos for about 5 years until 2000.
Not the best system I have ever worked with, we had to manually add a 5% contingency to the fuel burns because it kept undercutting them and on one particular occasion, Rodos had a function for nominating the most optimum trans-atlantic track, I was routing an aircraft from mainland Europe across the pond and because of the strong winds it needed to refuel in either PIK or SNN.
When I was playing around calculating the most optimum place to stop the Rodos route out of PIK routed south abeam SNN before routing across the pond and the route out of SNN routed north abeam PIK before heading out.
Now you work that one out, now I was something of a flight planning wizz kid who knew how to get the charts out and do it the old fashioned way but many a guy would simply trust what the computer was telling him thus Rodos must be costing the airlines millions!
Not the best system I have ever worked with, we had to manually add a 5% contingency to the fuel burns because it kept undercutting them and on one particular occasion, Rodos had a function for nominating the most optimum trans-atlantic track, I was routing an aircraft from mainland Europe across the pond and because of the strong winds it needed to refuel in either PIK or SNN.
When I was playing around calculating the most optimum place to stop the Rodos route out of PIK routed south abeam SNN before routing across the pond and the route out of SNN routed north abeam PIK before heading out.
Now you work that one out, now I was something of a flight planning wizz kid who knew how to get the charts out and do it the old fashioned way but many a guy would simply trust what the computer was telling him thus Rodos must be costing the airlines millions!
