What are waypoints in navigation?

What are waypoints in navigation?

A waypoint is a point of reference that can be used for location and navigation. Waypoints can be the specific latitude and longitude of a location, a well-known building or natural feature. Signs, like this one pointing across the Atlantic Ocean from Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, can also be used as waypoints.

What is a fly over point?

Flyover waypoint. A waypoint at which a turn is initiated in order to join the next segment of a route or procedure.”

What are Q routes and T routes?

Q-Routes and T-Routes apply RNAV to en route airspace. Q-Routes are available for RNAV-equipped aircraft operating between 18,000 and 45,000 feet. T-Routes are at altitudes lower than 18,000 feet, sometimes down to 1,200 feet above ground level.

What are Q routes?

Q routes are high altitude RNAV routes usable by RNAV-equipped aircraft from flight level (FL) 180 through FL 450. The Q routes were designed to facilitate the en route phase of the flight leg, so as to streamline traffic flowing into high density airspaces and terminal areas.

What is the difference between a waypoint and route?

A route is a sequence of waypoints, its the plan for your navigation. A track is the recorded path you did actually follow while trying to implement the plan (the route).

What is the difference between flyover and flyby?

As nouns the difference between flyover and flyby is that flyover is (us) a low-level flight, especially of military aircraft, of a ceremonial nature; a flypast (british) while flyby is a flight past a celestial object in order to make observations.

When May VFR waypoints be used?

When filing VFR flight plans, pilots may use the five letter identifier as a waypoint in the route of flight section if there is an intended course change at that point or if used to describe the planned route of flight.

Can you fly T-routes without WAAS?

T-routes are available for use by GPS or GPS/WAAS equipped aircraft from 1,200 feet above the surface (or in some instances higher) up to but not including 18,000 feet MSL.

Are t-routes RNAV 1?

RNAV terminal transition routes, referred to as Tango or “T” routes, allow Global Positioning System (GPS) equipped, instrument flight rules (IFR) operations to efficiently fly around or through Class B and Class C airspace areas. Routes have been established for Cincinnati, Charlotte, and Jacksonville thus far.

Can you fly T routes without WAAS?

What is a tango route?