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Planning a route following a line feature

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By Mastering Aviation - 2/20/2021 11:02:22 AM

Hi Folks,
Firstly thank you for letting me join the forums. There is a wealth of information here!
I couldn't find anything about planning to follow a line feature rather than inserting several turning points along the feature.
In this case I would like to follow route MIKE from MIKE 2 to MIKE 1, but on other occasions I might like to follow a road or railway etc.

Any ideas?

Thanks, MA
By Tim Dawson - 2/22/2021 1:08:12 PM

They might indeed, and the London heli routes are probably the most compelling reason we've thought of for doing this. But they're only one feature, which means the bar isn't yet reached.

The alpine GAFOR routes are a contender, but they're a good example of where the pilot almost certainly will NOT actually be following every single curve and meander, and therefore rendering our calculations not very useful.