Escape route?

[CFI A&P]

While departing TEB I was told that I’m being refilled on an escape route due to weather along my filed route. The new route was different but through the same sectors, just on adjacent airways and VORs from my original flight plan.

Do escape routes really exist? Or was that the wrong phraseology for a re-route?

 

[NovemberEcho]

While departing TEB I was told that I’m being refilled on an escape route due to weather along my filed route. The new route was different but through the same sectors, just on adjacent airways and VORs from my original flight plan.

Do escape routes really exist? Or was that the wrong phraseology for a re-route?

It's not a technical term. It's called a SWAP reroute. Severe Weather Avoidance Program.

Were you going over White originally by any chance?

 

[bimmerphile]

Nothing like getting four reroutes on the ground, making as many calls to dispatch, then taking off 2 minutes before you time out 100lb over min takeoff, only to have the departure controller ask "what's your destination" and give you direct

Summer is near!

 

[NovemberEcho]

Nothing like getting four reroutes on the ground, making as many calls to dispatch, then taking off 2 minutes before you time out 100lb over min takeoff, only to have the departure controller ask "what's your destination" and give you direct

Summer is near!

Well that definitely wasn't leaving NY

 

[bimmerphile]

Well that definitely wasn't leaving NY

Sure was! Last May on the Dash, trying to get to ALB. CB north over Sparta moving East, got reroutes on the ground going over sparta all the way to Bridgeport

 

[NovemberEcho]

Sure was! Last May on the Dash, trying to get to ALB. CB north over Sparta moving East, got reroutes on the ground going over sparta all the way to Bridgeport

Was it after 11? We'll give direct during the mids

 

[bimmerphile]

Was it after 11? We'll give direct during the mids

Oh yeah, it was like midnight. Got direct and he let us play pathfinder

 

[NovemberEcho]

Oh yeah, it was like midnight. Got direct and he let us play pathfinder

Whelp, the bad news is now that you're in an RJ that'll never happen again. The Dash's and other low level props get direct

 

[bimmerphile]

Whelp, the bad news is now that you're in an RJ that'll never happen again. The Dash's and other low level props get direct

RIP BABY DASH

 

[CFI A&P]

While departing TEB I was told that I’m being refilled on an escape route due to weather along my filed route. The new route was different but through the same sectors, just on adjacent airways and VORs from my original flight plan.

Do escape routes really exist? Or was that the wrong phraseology for a re-route?

It's not a technical term. It's called a SWAP reroute. Severe Weather Avoidance Program.

Were you going over White originally by any chance?

SWAP I have heard of, but escape route made me think of Mission Impossible.

This time it wasn’t WHITE, but I think it was GAYEL, westbound out of Bergen County Thunderdome Municipal Airport.

 

[Cptnchia]

Well that definitely wasn't leaving NY

I’ve done tower enroute from JFK to BOS at 7000 in a 737 to get around the WX before.