NFDC Preferred routes down?

Ryan B · Post by **Ryan B** » Thu May 03, 2012 8:29 am

http://www.fly.faa.gov/rmt/nfdc_preferr ... tabase.jsp

This page never works for me... I type in the origin and destination without the "K" and tec route type. I get error "field contains more than the allowed maximum of characters for each query field"

Does this site for for anyone? If not, other than ZLA's vatsim tec route page what are you guys using?

NM Doug · Post by **NM Doug** » Thu May 03, 2012 8:35 am

Hi Ryan -

Try leaving out TEC in the route type (just leave it blank). I seem to get valid routes that way.

- Doug

Edit: actually, I leave out everything except the three letter origin and destination codes. I don't know if that's how it's supposed to work...

Steven Winslow · Post by **Steven Winslow** » Thu May 03, 2012 8:52 am

I get errors, or nothing at all, if I enter anything but the 3 letter ICAO codes of the departure and destination airports. Try that and see what happens.

I suppose I could have just said, "Ya! What Doug said!"

Ryan B · Post by **Ryan B** » Thu May 03, 2012 9:51 am

Shazaam! You guys are the best!

Keith Smith · Post by **Keith Smith** » Thu May 03, 2012 10:02 am

I just entered 'sna', 'cma', 'tec' for origin, destination and route type respectively, no issue.

Mark Hargrove · Post by **Mark Hargrove** » Thu May 03, 2012 3:57 pm

Steven Winslow wrote:I get errors, or nothing at all, if I enter anything but the 3 letter ICAO codes of the departure and destination airports. Try that and see what happens.

Keith,

I think this is what Steve is referring to:

: NFDC Error.PNG (57.26 KiB) Viewed 6087 times

I also get this error every time I specify 'TEC' for the route type.

-M.

Steven Winslow · Post by **Steven Winslow** » Thu May 03, 2012 8:00 pm

Yep! That's the very same error message I get when I enter anything but the departure and destination 3 letter ICAO codes.

Alex Stjepanovic · Post by **Alex Stjepanovic** » Fri May 04, 2012 2:07 am

Steven Winslow wrote:3 letter ICAO codes.

ICAO is 4 letters. The ones you are probably thinking about, are either IATA or FAA codes(First 3 letters, latter 3 or 4).

arb65912 · Post by **arb65912** » Fri May 04, 2012 4:27 am

I am surprised that the national source is not clear on what codes you should use.
No "K" prefix for US is misleading, why aren't they more specific, like use ICAO code without "K" prefix, IATA or FAA code.
There is no help or description button either, at least I could not find it. Anybody?

Steven Winslow · Post by **Steven Winslow** » Fri May 04, 2012 9:27 am

Alex Stjepanovic wrote:
ICAO is 4 letters. The ones you are probably thinking about, are either IATA or FAA codes(First 3 letters, latter 3 or 4).

Doh!! I knew that!! What I meant to type was the ICAO code without the "K" at the beginning.

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