Infinite Flight Oceanic Tracks

[Katina Piccirilli]

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Infinite Flight has introduced real-world instrument procedures to take the departure and arrival of your flight to the next level. Wouldn't it make sense if we sprinkled some of that realism into the cruise phase too? We thought so!

Introducing Oceanic Tracks coming in 20.1! This track system is designed to separate traffic between 29,000ft and 41,000ft while crossing large bodies of water like the Atlantic or Pacific Oceans where there is often little to no ATC coverage. These tracks are updated regularly to account for the shifting winds and traffic flow. Infinite Flight will feature multiple available tracks that you can insert directly into your flight plan by tapping on the desired track from the map. We're taking the mad dash from New York to London to the next level.

Infinite Flight now includes a real-world global navigation database, provided by NavBlue (an Airbus company). Correct and up-to-date airspaces, waypoints, NAVAIDs, SIDs, STARs, and Approaches are now all available, according to company officials. Users without an Infinite Flight Pro subscription can still enjoy all of this data that fits within the region boundaries in solo mode, officials add.

In addition to being able to add instrument procedures to a flight plan (grouped by procedure with the ability to break them up), pilots will be able to add regularly-updated Oceanic Tracks and capture the jet stream on their trans-oceanic flights.

U can copy other peoples flight plans tho, for example Im departing from Boston and I see some planes coning from los angeles, when they took off they added the track so I can copy it into my fpl and edited as ai desire

Tracks come and go, typically there are 5+ tracks in each direction. Because of Covid and no one really flying there only a couple. They are based of best winds for a giving direction, a combination of Gander Oceanic Control and Shanwick Control.

Like many have said, the tracks update regularly. You will typically see more tracks become available around 1800Zulu because starting then and really after that, most transatlantic back to Europe will begin.

The oceanic tracks represent the currently active oceanic tracks in real life. Depending on where the oceanic tracking letter is, this represents the direction of the oceanic track. For example, Oceanic track A goes from east to west and oceanic track Zulu goes from west to east.

Technically the tracks reverse direction twice daily. In the daylight, all traffic on the tracks operates in a westbound flow. At night, the tracks flow eastbound towards Europe. This is done to accommodate traditional airline schedules, with departures from North America to Europe scheduled for departure in the evening thereby allowing passengers to arrive at their destination in the morning. Obviously, this is not always exactly the case, and flights to the east or west fluctuate on a daily basis.

For years, oceanic flight planning has been a topic of concern among private aircraft owners. In reality, the process is quite simple when you know the exact steps to follow, and best practices recommended by the FAA and other pilots. When you are planning your first oceanic flight, and have questions about position reporting, this guide will provide you with all the relevant information you need.

Oceanic flying refers to air travel that crosses the ocean in long distances, with starting points and destinations that stretch between continents. Because radar coverage is limited in these areas, with flight times much longer than the typical flight over land, more planning and reporting is necessary.

This allows controllers to learn your location and ensure air traffic remains separated and safe. Positions should be reported at each waypoint you fly over and/or 45 minutes after your last report was made, whichever comes first. If your aircraft changes speed or altitude, this must also be reported. You must also make a position report if the ETA of your inbound waypoint changes by more than 3 minutes during an oceanic flight. Visit the International Virtual Aviation Organisation website for more information.

Position Reporting during oceanic flights is a must for all pilots. Reports must happen over each point listed in the flight plan for the safety of everyone traveling through limited-radar areas. Fortunately, the best practices are well known, easy to follow, and available from many highly authoritative sources.

Oceanic Flying in an airliner often involves long stretches of flying with no radar coverage or communication with Air Traffic Control. Oceanic tracks on Infinite Flight allow aircraft to complete successful oceanic crossings by following predetermined routes, much like a highway in the sky, that are regularly updated to adapt to traffic volume and weather patterns.

These will be updated based on demand, but I will also check to see if we can explore adding more that will connect popular locations like Sydney/US, US/Asia, etc. Thanks for watching and keep an eye out for more tracks to come!

A tropical cyclone is a generic term for a low-pressure system that formed over tropical waters (25S to 25N) with thunderstorm activity near the center of its closed, cyclonic winds. Tropical cyclones derive their energy from vertical temperature differences, are symmetrical, and have a warm core.

Currently, there are six yearly lists used in rotation found here. If a particularly damaging storm occurs, the name of that storm is retired. Storms retired in 2017 include Harvey, Irma, Maria, and Nate. If there are more storms than names on the list in a given season, an auxiliary name list is used. Lastly, if a storm happens to move across basins, it keeps the original name. The only time it is renamed is in the case that it dissipates to a tropical disturbance and then reforms.

For many years the Indian Ocean cyclones were given alphanumeric designators. The Southwest Indian Ocean tropical cyclones were first named during the 1960/1961 season. The North Indian Ocean region tropical cyclones were named as of 2006.

A rare South Atlantic storm in 2004 was post facto given the name Catarina. Another such system in 2010 was designated Anita after the fact. Starting in 2011, a name list was begun for the South Atlantic basin using mostly Brazilian designations.

The names used on the list must meet some fundamental criteria. They should be short, and readily understood when broadcast. Further the names must be culturally sensitive and not convey some unintended and potentially inflammatory meaning. The potential for misunderstanding increases when you figure that in the Atlantic basin there are twenty-four countries, reflecting an international mix of English, Spanish and French cultures.

The Automated Tropical Cyclone Forecast (ATCF) system was developed for the Joint Typhoon Warning Center in 1988. It is used by computer software to identify tropical cyclones and assist in the generation of forecast messages. In order to distinguish different tropical cyclones that might be occurring simultaneously, a distinct alphanumeric code is assigned to each cyclone once it develops a closed circulation. This code system was adopted by other warning centers in order to facilitate the passing of storm information and reduce confusion.

Oftentimes, hurricane specialists become curious about disturbances in the tropics long before they form into tropical depressions and are given a tropical cyclone number. In order to alert forecasting centers that they are investigating such a disturbance and that they wish to have it tracked by the various forecast models, the specialist will attach a 9-series number to it. The first such disturbance of the year will be designated 90, the next 91, and so on until 99. After that, they restart the sequence with 90 again. The purpose of these numbers is to clarify which disturbance they are tracking as there are often more than one happening at the same time.

Although rarer, some East Pacific names have been retired from the list. The climatology of this basin has most hurricanes moving away from the shore, so chances are rare that these storms would adversely affect people necessitating the name be retired.

A few Central Pacific names have been retired from their list. Most of them were removed for inflicting damage or adversely affecting the Hawaiian Islands. However, some have moved into the western Pacific to cause destructions, prompting their retirement.

Names retired before the 2000 season come from the name lists used by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center. Since 2000, the names removed come from the name lists used by the Japan Meteorological Agency. Most of the retired names inflicted significant damage to the nations affected.

Bess 1974 was retired after the season and replaced with Bonnie. In 1979, new name lists featuring both sexes were introduced and Bess was added back. In 1982, Bess was again retired and replaced with Brenda.

Having these conditions met is necessary but not sufficient, as many disturbances that appear to have favorable conditions do not develop. Past work (Velasco and Fritsch 1987, Chen and Frank 1993, Emanuel 1993) has identified that large thunderstorm systems (called mesoscale convective complexes) often produce an inertially stable, warm core vortex in the trailing altostratus decks of the MCC. These mesovortices have a horizontal scale of approximately 100 to 200 km [75 to 150 mi], are strongest in the mid-troposphere (5 km [3 mi]) and have no appreciable signature at the surface. Zehr (1992) hypothesizes that genesis of the tropical cyclones occurs in two stages:

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