Inserting victor airways

While on a flight from KPOV to KLZU, ATC gave me a routing change: direct HRS Victor 463 Victor 222 LOGEN direct. I was unable to enter the victors into my current flight plan. Using FlyQ on my iPad, I created the routing and then determined the intersections and entered those into the IFD540 current flight plan. Later on the ground, I used the simulator and observed that I can only enter victors in a route. Is this an intentional limitation?

compasst wrote: While on a flight from KPOV to KLZU, ATC gave me a routing change: direct HRS Victor 463 Victor 222 LOGEN direct. I was unable to enter the victors into my current flight plan. Using FlyQ on my iPad, I created the routing and then determined the intersections and entered those into the IFD540 current flight plan. Later on the ground, I used the simulator and observed that I can only enter victors in a route. Is this an intentional limitation?

Edited by oskrypuch - 31 May 2015 at 10:38am

This one isn't too bad because, unlike the scenario presented by Orest, there actually is an named waypoint at the intersection of V463 and V222. That gives you a convenient "on ramp" and "off ramp" to the airways.

Assuming that you are flying direct to KLZU when the new clearance is received, the procedure would be the following:

1) Press the Direct button and go direct to HRS. That will get you started on your way and will make ATC happy.

2) Bring up the FMS FPL page. You will see that HRS has been added as a waypoint and that there's a "gap" in the flight plan between HRS and KLZU. We need to fix this.

3) Select the magenta line between HRS and the gap. A pop-up will appear. Scroll to the bottom and find V463. Select it and press Enter. That gives you your "on ramp" to V463.

4) Another pop-up will appear. It wants to know where you want to get off V463. Select WOMAC and press enter.

5) Now we need to add the next waypoint, LOGEN. We could use the same procedure to add V222 after WOMAC, but the chart shows that direct LOGEN after WOMAC will give us the same thing. Select the magenta line under WOMAC and add the waypoint LOGEN to the flight plan.

6) Almost done. Now we have to get rid of the gap. Select it, then use the bottom Line Select key on the left side of the IFD540 to connect LOGEN and KLZU. Done

I'm sure that there are other ways to do this, but this one is fairly straightforward. The main thing is to fly the airplane first, get it going in the right direction, then worry about programming. Fall back on old fashioned VOR navigation if necessary. It can be done. Or, if things are happening way too fast, ask for a vector while you get sorted out.

If there's no named waypoint at the intersection, I think the easiest thing to do would be to create your own waypoint there, based on radial/distance numbers from the chart. It's easy to do once you practice a little. Then you have to build a flight plan that incorporates the new waypoint. That's going to be a pain because the your waypoint isn't really part of the airway. You'll have to get off the airway at a real waypoint, go to your new waypoint, and then get back on the next airway at another airway waypoint. All this is best done on the ground if you can get the clearance beforehand.

Hope this helps.

Mike

compasst wrote: anks for the great responses. I was able to easily do the routing while in ROUTE mode where Victor airways are in the dropdown.I do not see a way to do this to a current FPL because victor airways are not present in the dropdown list. Am I correct? I f true,why are victors not available in FPL mode?

The Victor airways are there. They are in the window that appears when you go to add something after HRS. They're just not apparent because they are way down at the bottom of other stuff. You have to scroll down to the bottom of the window to find them.