TEC terminology ?

[rick223]

In Altitude sec. , what does PQ and JM stand for? And in Direction, CSTN ? Thanks

[DrZGard]

PQ is used for piston aircraft, JM is used for turboprop and jet. They break down further but I don't recall offhand right now. You can google search it.

Edit. Found this: http://www.geocities.ws/ont_tracon/tecroutings.htm

[rick223]

Thanks

[jtek]

That link has P and Q reversed. I'm looking at my A/FD right now and it says:

J - Jet powered
M - Turboprops/special (cruise speed 190 knots or greater)
P - Non-jet (cruise speed 190 knots or greater)
Q - Non-jet (cruise speed 189 knots or less)

"CSTN1" (or CSTN2, CSTN3, etc) is the route ID. That is what you would put down as your route if you were filing it. CST stands for "coast", because all the CSTNx routes are from the coastal airports (Fullerton, long beach, Torrance, Los alamitos, John Wayne), so the way you would read, e.g. CSTN1, out loud would be "coast November one".

[Keith Smith]

Be sure not to use any of the routings on that Geocities page, they're two generations old (L routings are shown on that page, then came M routings, now they're up to the N series). The AFD is a good place to find the current definitions of the routes themselves and the equipment types.

[rick223]

thanks again