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Flight Simulator Airspace Information

Procedures for Oceanic Flight. Oceanic Flight is a journey across Pacific Ocean (as known as Transpacific) or across Atlantic Ocean (as known as Transatlantic).

This summary is just for a quick reference. Let’s start it…

Above the Oceans there’s no fixed route (like airways or intersection) that you can use for crossing the ocean.There’s a route system that is to be used for crossing the ocean called The Organized Track System (OTS)

For Pacific Ocean the system known as PACOTS (Pacific Organized Track System) or for Atlantic Ocean known as  NAT (North Atlantic Track). These tracks are changing daily usualy at 0000z and 1200z.
So the flight planning of the route is only can be done at the day you will fly. The most factor these track system is changing is caused by current weather on that day. Read the rest of this entry »