TEC route database updates?
Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2018 12:55 am
Hello,
Yesterday I filed the PSPN18 TEC route to fly from PSP to SNA (derived from the FAA database, ForeFlight, myflightroute). However, the controller assigned me the N8A TEC route instead. I asked the controller about this and was told (halfway during the flight) that the PSPN18 is quite new (May 2018) and thus not part of PE's protocol yet.
How incidental is this issue? Or, how many times do TEC routes change? Do we need to consider TEC changes as PE pilots before filing? And if we file a TEC route that PE does not yet recognize, could we let ATC know about the newer TEC route so we can still fly it?
Issue arises:
https://youtu.be/dSZE4c0pztU?t=1h13m30s
Controller resolves TEC issue:
https://youtu.be/dSZE4c0pztU?t=2h37m9s
Thanks,
Tim
Yesterday I filed the PSPN18 TEC route to fly from PSP to SNA (derived from the FAA database, ForeFlight, myflightroute). However, the controller assigned me the N8A TEC route instead. I asked the controller about this and was told (halfway during the flight) that the PSPN18 is quite new (May 2018) and thus not part of PE's protocol yet.
How incidental is this issue? Or, how many times do TEC routes change? Do we need to consider TEC changes as PE pilots before filing? And if we file a TEC route that PE does not yet recognize, could we let ATC know about the newer TEC route so we can still fly it?
Issue arises:
https://youtu.be/dSZE4c0pztU?t=1h13m30s
Controller resolves TEC issue:
https://youtu.be/dSZE4c0pztU?t=2h37m9s
Thanks,
Tim