By Easy Cruising - 8/4/2016 4:58:58 PM
I had another FPL rejected by Austrian authorities. Was from Salzburg westwards outbound via their VFR points. Looked ok to me, but I got this message:
FPL NOT ACCEPTED.
ADVISE BORDER POINTS AND CORRECT ROUTING.
I notice that SD doesn't put border crossing points in, but I've always been used to doing this when filing manual FPL's. So what's the story .. is SD supposed to produce a usable FPL when crossing country boundaries, or is it just a template which always has to be manually modified ? Obviously one can always put a waypoint on the boundary somewhere but it always to appear as coordinates, which seems to be disliked by several authorities.
(weirdly after calling the Vienna ATS, the lady who answered said the FPL looked ok, and accepted it without me modifiying it).
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By Tim Dawson - 8/10/2016 3:34:34 PM
Yes, the flightplan is presented in a textual form where most fields can be modified by the pilot before submission.
SkyDemon includes the ETA at all FIRs as the ICAO standard requires. I'm not aware of any standard that requires the ETA at any other points to be put into item 18. If we did include such points, would they essentially duplicate the ones already there for the FIRs? Is there any documentation from any country to support the suggestion that we should add them to item 18?
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