8.3 Example: Nassau to Punta Cana

User Inputs

For our final example we will head to the Caribbean, planning from MYNN (Nassau, Bahamas) to MDPC (Punta Cana, Dominican Republic). Here are the captured inputs:

{'apt1': {'apt_coords': LatLon(25°02′20.42″N, 077°27′58.28″W), 'apt_elev_ft': '16', 'apt_name': 'Lynden Pindling Intl (Nassau)', 'icao_code': 'MYNN'}, 'apt2': {'apt_coords': LatLon(18°34′14.81″N, 068°21′58.27″W), 'apt_elev_ft': '43', 'apt_name': 'Punta Cana Intl', 'icao_code': 'MDPC'}, 'payload_lb': 25000, 'rsv_fuel_lb': 8700, 'weather_settings': {'user_wind_dir': 'not set', 'user_wind_spd_kt': 'not set', 'wind_mode': 'openmeteo'}, 'wpt1': identifier BRONOtype waypointsubtype enroutegeometry POINT (24.810277778 -77.547288889)Name: 153496, dtype: object, 'wpt1_alt_ftmsl': 5000, 'wpt2': identifier OBITAtype waypointsubtype enroutegeometry POINT (19.022222222 -68.513333333)Name: 91194, dtype: object, 'wpt2_alt_ftmsl': 5000}

Flight Plan

Here is the generated plan:

Graph and Path

Here is the search graph:

And here is the path through the graph, along with the sectors:

Terrain

Here is the terrain check output:

Winds Estimate

Here are the estimated upper level winds per sector:

winds:[{'sector': 0, 'source': 'openmeteo', 'wind_dir': 302, 'wind_spd_kt': 41}, {'sector': 1, 'source': 'openmeteo', 'wind_dir': 310, 'wind_spd_kt': 44}, {'sector': 2, 'source': 'openmeteo', 'wind_dir': 312, 'wind_spd_kt': 38}, {'sector': 3, 'source': 'openmeteo', 'wind_dir': 312, 'wind_spd_kt': 38}, {'sector': 4, 'source': 'openmeteo', 'wind_dir': 332, 'wind_spd_kt': 35}, {'sector': 5, 'source': 'openmeteo', 'wind_dir': 341, 'wind_spd_kt': 31}, {'sector': 6, 'source': 'openmeteo', 'wind_dir': 323, 'wind_spd_kt': 30}]

.fms file

Here is the file content that was generated for the FMS:

I1100 VersionCYCLE 1802ADEP MYNNADES MDPCNUMENR 171 MYNN ADEP 16.0 25.039006 -77.46618911 BRONO DRCT 5000.0 24.810278 -77.54728911 BOSAR DRCT 25616.0 24.637011 -76.84993328 TOC DRCT 30000.0 24.640325 -76.53438611 MUVOD DRCT 30000.0 24.656661 -75.66685011 EMGOR DRCT 30000.0 24.180053 -74.72761911 BENIE DRCT 30000.0 23.574306 -73.57286111 RNDLY DRCT 30000.0 22.514944 -72.89993111 MICAS DRCT 30000.0 22.131497 -72.44524411 AGNOD DRCT 30000.0 21.540008 -71.71431711 TAANA DRCT 30000.0 20.943003 -70.97385811 BESAS DRCT 30000.0 20.337056 -70.34344411 PELSO DRCT 30000.0 19.816667 -69.97138928 TOD DRCT 30000.0 19.602992 -69.75705611 VOGEP DRCT 12648.2 18.971111 -69.15250011 OBITA DRCT 5000.0 19.022222 -68.5133331 MDPC ADES 43.0 18.570781 -68.366186

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