first long haul

#1

so im doing my first long haul flight. klax - egll and I am panicking because I don’t know when to start decent I have looked at everything but it all mentions “fix altitude” or “target altitude” could someone explain please how to determine the target or fix altitude please. I don’t want to mess up my first long haul.

#2

Start around 150 NM out, slow down to .83 and put your spoilers to flight, and decent at around 2000 fps, too 11,000 stop at 11,000 slow down to 230-240 keep spoilers up, and than normal decent till you line up with localizer, and spoilers only to prevent overspeeding :)

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#3

I can make a flight plan for you, and once you reach a certain waypoint it will tell you how to descend. What me to?

#4

I appreciate it but I had already started

#5

thank you :))

#6

explain more @Alphadog4646 please

#7

Dimples: plenary of topics on this on the IFC.

However easier to remember is take your FL (is Fl380 = 38000) the devise by 3, then add 10 nm, for slow down and you are there.

For example : FL380/3=126nm + 10 =136nm

Therefore start your descent at 136nm Distance to Go ( DTG).

Check out this vid for further tips!

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#8

Hey!
If you don’t know when or how to descend, I recommend calculating the TOD (Top of Descent) as @Alphadog4646 explained.

Here is another guide on how to calculate the TOD.

And good luck with your long haul!! 👋 @VulicityHD

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#9

how do you know what the target altitude is?

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#10

Is this the same thing you sent me when i asked lol

#11

In simple terms, the target altitude is the height of the airport. You can check this by select Ming it in the map.

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#12

thank you guys!

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#13

Heathrow’s (EGLL‘s) surface altitude in IF is 83 feet above MSL.

#14

Have a good flight @VulicityHD! I have no idea when to start decent either on routes I haven’t done before.

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#15

If the airport Alt is under 100ft then I just use 0 as my target altitude

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#16

That’s very reasonable, just wanted to provide the information as I did a flight while being on the community.

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#17

I do this very similarly. at 100nm from next waypoint (my waypoints are usually 20-30nm before the ILS/GPS because I set up for landing. If its long haul, 150nm out, short haul and below FL280, 100 or 120nm. I descend to 12,000ft and slow down to 240/220, then slowly descend to around 3,500ft AGL for the ILS. I am flying a long haul right now, from New Dehli to San Francisco. Its 15 and a half hours…

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#18

I’m going to do a long-haul KJFK - KSEA soon. American Airlines 787

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