The defined routes through the air that aircraft follow to get from place to place.
Questions tagged [airways]
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Do airways with multiple numbers (e.g., J89-101) imply combined segments?
On SkyVector, I see many airways with 'multiple' names such as J16-36 or even J89-94-100-128. I can't find any information on how to interpret these names.
I'm guessing it's a convention to say that for some portion of the airways, J89 and J94…
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how to know about designed airways above my house
Newbie here.
I hear quite a lot airplanes and helicopters and all kind of weird flying things above my head, at least one every 2 or 3 minutes, so I started tracking them with ADS-B.
There's a commercial airport in the region (MXP), not extremely…
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What is the history of the name of airway?
I am studying about airway. And I want to know about the history of designation of name of airway.
I have known that the first name of airway is colored airway(L/M frequency airway) like A586 or G13.
But why we call them colors? I don't know the…
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Are passengers more likely to see other airliners from a window seat on the right or on the left?
From the window of an airline, one is more likely to see a plane travelling in the opposite direction, than one flying in the same direction.
Are planes travelling in the opposite direction more likely to be found on the right or the left? That is,…
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