Jan
29
How do Pilots find their path in air during their plight from one place to another?
Filed Under Air Travel
Kalash asked:
I would like to know, how the air pilots find their path in the air to drive the aeroplane from one place to another during plight,that too at a higher altitude?
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I would like to know, how the air pilots find their path in the air to drive the aeroplane from one place to another during plight,that too at a higher altitude?
Comments
4 Responses to “How do Pilots find their path in air during their plight from one place to another?”
ANTONIO
A compass.
BOOKER
Altitudes are set by the FAA, different directions mean different altitudes.
Pilots can tell withing a few feet of their actual location by means of the GPS system, and almost all can find and verify their position by ground controllers, with the aid of their transponders.
Their flight path is laid out prior to taking off, that included direction, time and altitude, and in flight changes are made by the ground controllers.
DION
Radars and compasses.
LAVERNE
Just like driving on the road, pilots has routes in the sky too. They follow waypoints. That is their GPS system. Waypoints are like satellites that is on the ground and it tells the pilots how close to that waypoint. They follow the waypoints that are set by the FAA. There are thousands of them in the US and that’s how the know where they’re going from orgin to destination. I fly online on Flight Simulator 2004/VATSIM and we have to use the real world flight routes to fly online.