WheelieBagWanderer
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Hello JB,
A few quick questions if I may.
1. I was listening into the ATC app the other day, and I noticed after take-off that aircraft were told to "contact Director on.... "
Who is "the director?" Why wouldn't you contact "Departures?"
2. On a flight, say, from SYD-BKK.... What air traffic control centres would you talk/report to on the way there?
Obviously SYD at the start, BKK at the end, but how about over Central Australia, Indonesia, Borneo, Vietnam, Cambodia (assuming that was the flight path, which it often is).
Do you need to talk to each country's ATC as you fly over, or is there a centralised-"SE ASIA ATC" for cruising aircraft?
3. The last question refers to top of decent. Obviously you have this in your flight plan from the start and it's entered into the FMS. How is this particular point on the map calculated? Do you have to confirm this TD point with the arriving airport's ATC before you actually start your decent? Also, if it is a busy period and they ask you to change your TD point, or alter it in some way, such as enter a holding pattern, do you then have to reprogram the FMS? If you're not sure what they're going to ask you to do after holding or what level they're going to instruct you to fly to, or what waypoint they'll send you off to next what do you enter in the FMS? Hope this makes sense.
Many thanks as usual.
A few quick questions if I may.
1. I was listening into the ATC app the other day, and I noticed after take-off that aircraft were told to "contact Director on.... "
Who is "the director?" Why wouldn't you contact "Departures?"
2. On a flight, say, from SYD-BKK.... What air traffic control centres would you talk/report to on the way there?
Obviously SYD at the start, BKK at the end, but how about over Central Australia, Indonesia, Borneo, Vietnam, Cambodia (assuming that was the flight path, which it often is).
Do you need to talk to each country's ATC as you fly over, or is there a centralised-"SE ASIA ATC" for cruising aircraft?
3. The last question refers to top of decent. Obviously you have this in your flight plan from the start and it's entered into the FMS. How is this particular point on the map calculated? Do you have to confirm this TD point with the arriving airport's ATC before you actually start your decent? Also, if it is a busy period and they ask you to change your TD point, or alter it in some way, such as enter a holding pattern, do you then have to reprogram the FMS? If you're not sure what they're going to ask you to do after holding or what level they're going to instruct you to fly to, or what waypoint they'll send you off to next what do you enter in the FMS? Hope this makes sense.
Many thanks as usual.