Any ‘Normal’ NAT crossings?

[BobDDuck]

Same! LOL!

But never automatically! Why? I don’t know. CSC boss-man tells me to bitch at you when you do it without being prompted first.

Hamburger Method: “So this went well… [bring down furious anger]…and these other things went well”

We were told that NOT setting it to 300s when you need it just generates that message, but setting it to 300s when you don't need it (which is like 2 FIRs in the whole world) breaks their system. Who knows. I just do what they say. Like sending handshake position reports at a fir boundary... or not.

His name is Jimmy.

But nobody (myself included) can ever remember why.

 

[CFI A&P]

Not NATS... but across the other ocean stuff is normally pretty chill... normally.

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So, ten left or right?

Then the other FO, who was flying, wanted me to ask for a direct when we weren't radar contact.

Just the other day I was told that some people are getting busted after coasting out in WATRS for cutting the corner. Even though you've been handed off to HF, the radar coverage is still enough to "see you" and generating violations automatically.

 

[ASpilot2be]

So, ten left or right?



Just the other day I was told that some people are getting busted after coasting out in WATRS for cutting the corner. Even though you've been handed off to HF, the radar coverage is still enough to "see you" and generating violations automatically.

I guess I shouldn't be surprised people are doing things like that.

 

[Kingairer]

So, ten left or right?



Just the other day I was told that some people are getting busted after coasting out in WATRS for cutting the corner. Even though you've been handed off to HF, the radar coverage is still enough to "see you" and generating violations automatically.

THats like covering your eyes and saying "I can do what I want because no one can see me!"

 

[Boris Badenov]

I can't really think of one that *didn't* go basically to plan. Every once in a while there's some problem with the CPDLC, but it always gets ironed out before we have to do the dreaded "Monitor HF". We also tend to be doing random routes when there aren't a lot of other sky-busses/trucks out there to mess everything up for us, so maybe that's the difference.

 

[luke3]

Most of mine have been pretty straightforward. The occasional CPDLC issue but I learned to do it old school and reverting to voice always fixed everything. A few reroutes and the need for wx deviations both with and without CPDLC all went smoothly. The big problems that stood out were mainly due to flying old junky airplanes. Although one time for some reason we couldn't get SELCAL to work with Santa Maria and we had to maintain HF listening watch. That was brutal. Luckily it worked fine with New York.

 

[Baronman]

So, ten left or right?



Just the other day I was told that some people are getting busted after coasting out in WATRS for cutting the corner. Even though you've been handed off to HF, the radar coverage is still enough to "see you" and generating violations automatically.

Could be ADS-B covered. Or ADS-C sending out where you are.

 

[CFI A&P]

Could be ADS-B covered. Or ADS-C sending out where you are.

That was my thought as well, but surprising to think that seasoned aviators in ORCA (formerly Class II) don't think about the aircraft position reporting systems. This isn't a student pilot "forgetting" about the third leg of the triangle in the their long-cross country.

 

[Cessnaflyer]

Well the crossing was great until this happened . We are alive and well, it could’ve been worse.