The Highway in the Sky | North Atlantic Track System
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Welcome aboard aviation enthusiasts and curious minds alike! In this captivating video, we embark on an incredible journey through the skies to explore the marvel that is the North Atlantic Track System. Join us as we delve into the intricacies of this crucial aviation infrastructure that facilitates safe and efficient transatlantic flights. Let's find out how planes get from the USA to Europe and back each day, how they find their way and how they keep apart from each other on their journey over the north atlantic. ✈️
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Navigating the North Atlantic Track System | The 'Highway in the Sky'
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I think this is your best video yet. It’s the clearest and most concise explanation of the NAT I’ve seen!
Thank you so much :) Glad you liked it.
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CPDLC is a game changer. I do more North Pacific crossings these days, and us freighters are often on random routes when going to Europe as we are out of timing with the pax flights.
Wow, this is actually very fascinating because of its sophistication. Thank you for this breakdown
Always a good day when Airspace posts.
Such a great video! I remember seeing Wendover Productions video on the Highway in the Sky way back when it was posted almost 7 years ago! Even though his video was phenomenal, I liked how your video did a little bit of a better job explaining everything so well! Thank you! :)
Okay, 799
EDIT: I thought you mean per day? None the less another fantastic insight i was so happy to get this notification today!!
Indeed that was the question. Per day.
1369 if you divide 500,000 by 365
Amazing ! Thank you for share what you know. :)
Very good explanation, love it.
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Fantastic video!
Thanks Airspace, that was indeed really interesting !
Really well done! I never heard it explained this way. That is very interesting and useful information!
When I was younger I just got into the planes without any particular knowledge of routes. My flights were usually SF to Frankfurt. During one of those flights, decades ago, at above 30,000 feet somewhere, I noticed a plane a mile or so (I don’t really know how far it was, hard to tell) parallel to me. I was very surprised to see another plane! I remember thinking … with so much air space available, why am I seeing another plane?!
My most favorite part of the flight across the Atlantic always has been flying over Greenland. Seeing all that ice and the vastness is awesome! That flight is too long for me these days, but I hope to fly into the Arctic Circle soon! Seattle being my home airport now, I think that’s more doable than flying trans Atlantic . Can’t wait to get into one of these small Alaskan bush planes! 😃
I always love to see greenland!
Love this!! Thanks for making it.
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Very interesting.
Thank you for this. Excellent informative video. BTW, I sometimes feel Alcock and Brown don’t get the degree of recognition due to them. I do remember however getting a 50th anniversary special first day issue postal stamp celebrating their achievement in 1969.
I often listen to Shanwick and Gander ATC on HF radio. It is still active, and with modern radio technology, it can sound a fair bit better, but as mentioned in the video, it is only used as a backup system now.
Very interesting video, yes - and thank you!
I was always fascinated to see swarms of planes heading in either direction depending on the time of day and night when I lived in Newfoundland.
I'm now living in Asia and wonder if you might do a similar video about the Pacific routes one day~
I might! I have no idea about these routes, but my guess is they work in a similar manner :)
@@AirspaceVideos Must be similar to some extent.
Russian airspace off limits to many carriers nowadays have made things a a bit trickier (not to mention the previously used routes across Russia between Europe and Asia), but I assume more because....
Well, I'm assuming that you can more likely dig all these fun facts up - haha~
Cheers!
(Really love your channel, BTW)
Good job. Ciao, Marco.
Good! And what about crossing the Pacific?
Woo
I'd like to see an in depth explantion of the procedures used for emergencies over this tract - what happens after an aircraft leaves? Where do they divert in the case of an explosive decompression or fire, etc?
Well, the choice of alternate airports is pretty limited, usually it's either Gander, St. Johns, Goose Bay, Keflavik, Lajes or Shannon. Those are the main alternatr airports used by most airline. Choice will depend on the nature of the incident and of course, proximity at the time!
Up until recently I though even on the NATS, westbound planes fly at even numbers and eastbound on odd numbers. I guess that reverts back when they reach their exit point
nope, not anymore!
Excellent video. One thing that keeps puzzling me, though, is: even standard GPS is able to pinpoint any moving object (from smartphones to jumbo jets) with an approximation of less than 10 meters. So: why such a complicated system is still needed at all?! Can’t planes be tracked and hence separated simply based on GPS? Why are these trackways still needed at all? HF radio? What about data packages such as (yes) WhatsApp-style vocal messages, via satellite? It seems that aviation is on the forefront for some aspects, but stubbornly stuck to 50 years ago for other aspects of technology
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Another feature of the NAT system is SLOP. Strategic Lateral Offset Parallel.
Take a track whatever it is.
They have the option of selling one flight let’s say 5 miles off centerline of that track. Let’s say five miles left of centerline. The next flight gets cleared five miles right of the track centerline. This option allows more volume for a given track while still maintaining safe and consistent separation.
Think of it like the utility poles for your area. There are usually foot pegs drilled into the pole. They are usually staggered to allow the utility pole worker to have a place to put the foot up for the next step for climbing.
Same concept but turn the pole horizontal instead of vertical….same concept but obviously on a much much larger scale.
That's not quite correct - SLOP is just used to maintain more randomness in the separation between the planes and to avoid wake turbulence encounters. Also, SLOP is only allowed 1 or 2 NM right of track, not to the left.
May 4 million
You said 500,000 crossed the North Atlantic in 2018. So the daily number of flights is 1370?
This vid is gonna piss off the flat earthers 😅
hopefully
No it won’t. No matter what kind of evidence you bring to the table, they won’t believe it. You know why? Because it’s all a big fat conspiracy. They don’t let the facts get in the way of their opinion! 🤯
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Why not just have a bunch of airways northerly and southerly with named waypoints that are there 100% of the time. This way no lat longs to enter and very little to no mistakes by flight crew. Companies will still choose the airways best for wind, most of the time northerly for westbound and southerly for east bound just like today. The Nopac has it this way on much longer legs and no issues and easier clearances.....but hey we cant even get ICAO to agree on a single transition Alt or LvL within a single country....nor do they do anything about the messed up taxiways at Madrid....the list goes on and on and on....and on and on and on....
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The way to do it is to actually make islands in the middle of the ocean like China did but however those islands strictly belong to air traffic control then you have another 400 miles or kilometers or whatever or whatever radar works if you decide to make an island in the middle of the ocean like China did then there's less blank for radar coverage how about that and that's strictly owned by air traffic control which means no country owns that it's strictly air traffic-control owns that land just like you make an oil rig in the middle of the ocean write anybody thought of making that that would solve a lot of problems that will solve a lot of problems because if oil rigs and other places and if you make such a thing for air traffic control specifically then what happens is you would have you would know exactly where airplanes go down in the middle of the ocean etc etc etc I'm surprised nobody thought of this besides China member remember that they have 12 nautical miles from from Land if they build more land to have another 12 nautical miles and they build land to have another problem nautical miles then hello take a tip from China and put some oil rig Platforms in the middle of the ocean but except those are not oil rigs those are air traffic control Towers sometimes China did something very you know stupid and evolve lot of friction but take a tip from China and start building Air Traffic Control Towers in the middle of the ocean the same way we have coil rigs in the middle of the ocean hello ladies and gentlemen did anybody get the message I don't know because the messages copy China or copy an oil rig in the middle of the ocean but accept it doesn't drill for oil it's an air traffic control tower would actually human beings and a size of the of you know a big big big big big oil rig but except it's not giving oil is air traffic control Towers on that thing ladies and gentlemen the wake up and smell the coffee then we would have found a lot of airlines that we never found before why because those airplanes went down in the middle of the Atlantic or Pacific Oceans when the big huge oceans that we have and a less we're going to take a tip from China and either build the kind of oil rigs but not drilling oil but air traffic control or unless they actually going to build actual islands in the middle of the ocean that would be controlled specifically by air traffic control and will belong to air traffic control when airplane goes down and there's no radar coverage in the middle of the ocean this is a way that we could know where the airplanes are at all times and this is a much better way to know where the airplanes are flying hope this tip helps God bless the airline industry
I dont like the muzak !
(Great content though !)
That hadn't crossed my mind until you mentioned it!
Any suggestions?
Oh dear, I fear your 'pretty ancient' comment will cause the hoards of HAMS to attack! :)
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