SurClaro Flight Simulator Resources

Posted: Mon May 30, 2005 2:02 am Post subject: Taxi diagrams

Anyone know where i can get taxi diagrams for airports not in the united states? Some of those euro- airports are BIG (Schipol, Charles De Gaulle, Heathrow, Charles De Gaulle, Fiumicino, did I mention Charles De Gaulle?). Taxiing without strange pink lines on the taxiways can get complicated, and it's the last color i want to see after sitting at my computer for six hours watching the atlantic ocean go by.

Also another question, why is it that if I file a flight plan from Charlotte to Amsterdam, that it directs me all the way up to boston before I cross the ocean?

Posted: Mon May 30, 2005 2:54 am Post subject:

well i dont know about the taxiway thing. But i think that i know why it makes u go to Boston first. The FAA has a law that airlines much stay so close( like so many miles away ) from an airport, just incase of any abnormalies. Laughing

Posted: Mon May 30, 2005 1:21 pm Post subject: Hmmm,

Well, cant say what language they would be in, but there ought to be airport charts available for just about any major airport in the world. As to the routes thing, a real world pilot or one of the Microsoft guys would have the answer to that, but I suspect it has to do with high altitude airways. These are the established routes set up for traversing the globe, much like highways in the sky.

Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 1:17 am Post subject: taxi diagrams

Im sure of it. The reason it makes u fly to Boston is becuz the FAA had set a limit to how far the airlines were allowed to fly from any givin airport. They must stay a certian distance from an airport. Like they must stay so close. That is why it makes u hug the coast before u depart across the ocean

Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 1:17 am Post subject:

Well, if you file a plan for a london-tokyo flight, it will give you a route that takes you all the way into the arctic ocean and through siberia... any pilots out there that can explain?

Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 1:19 am Post subject: taxi diagrams

Same reason. FAA LAW

Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 3:11 am Post subject:

i thought that was just because the world was round
my friend told me that

Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 3:38 pm Post subject:

lambo14 asked:

Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 9:42 pm Post subject:

That sounds right to me.... they dont have the "FAA" there, probably something similar though.

Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 10:07 pm Post subject:

Here's another link about the great circle: http://www.charleslindbergh.com/ny/4.asp

Guffair is partially correct in that there are regulations regarding range from airports. It's called ETOPS (Extended-range Twin-engine Operations). You can find and explaination about it at the link in my reply above.

However, even though they appear to be out of the way on a flat chart, great circle routes are in fact, more more direct and therefore more economical to fly. BTW a great circle is one who's diameter divides the earth in half. Like the equator for example. The other's are logically referred to as "lesser circles".

Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 5:04 pm Post subject:

just to add to all this, i recently read that flying over the poles might be bad for your health, i think it was because of the sun or something. and that's why a chinese airline made an order for its pilots no to fly over the poles for more than one in a month. i think that was how it went...