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Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler | Airline Operations | Is that DP or STAR chart confusing? Look no further.

DVA7577
First Officer, B777-200
OLP

Joined on July 18 2009
50 State Club
Triple Century Club
Everett 250 Club
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary

Buffalo, NY USA

334 legs, 637.3 hours
29 legs, 47.8 hours online
332 legs, 629.7 hours ACARS
5 legs, 9.4 hours event

Posted onPost created on June 03 2011 09:21 ET by Jesse Kovacs

Excellent guide to chart symbols: http://library.flight1.net/?p=1452

Jesse Kovacs

First Officer, B777-200

DVA8452
Captain, A320
OLP

Joined on March 28 2010
50 State Club
Event Half Century Club
Online Fifteen Century
Bi-Millennium Club
B757 100 Club
Three Million Mile Club
Toulouse Millennium Club
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary

"Cabin crew, please take your seats for takeoff."
Novi, MI

2,970 legs, 9,136.9 hours
1,629 legs, 4,166.2 hours online
2,893 legs, 8,878.5 hours ACARS
65 legs, 189.4 hours event

Posted onPost created on June 03 2011 10:13 ET by Justin Lawrence

Great find, Jesse! Thanks!

Justin Lawrence

Captain, A320

DVA8757
Captain, MD-11
OLP

Joined on June 20 2010
50 State Club
Century Club

"It isn't what you do, but how you do it."
Southaven, MS USA

160 legs, 251.3 hours
77 legs, 116.9 hours online
160 legs, 251.3 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on June 03 2011 12:04 ET by Don Abernathy

I found this very chart to help me during my early days here while learning to plan out flight routes, STAR's and SID's. Hopefully, no one will do what I did and confuse this:

to mean this:

After being taken to the wood shed following a check ride, I learned it was supposed to be this:

DVA3931
Senior Captain, L-1011-100
OLP, COMM

Joined on January 19 2007
50 State Club
Tri-Jet Triumph
Million Mile Club
Online Quadruple Century Club
Flying Colonel
Globetrotter
Burbank 500 Club
Eurocap Club
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary

"De oppresso liber"
Surry, ME

1,882 legs, 3,806.7 hours
478 legs, 767.8 hours online
1,107 legs, 1,674.5 hours ACARS
55 legs, 114.8 hours event
195 legs dispatched, 134.4 hours

Posted onPost created on June 03 2011 12:53 ET by Andrew Kaufmann

You can also look at the How to Read Charts manual we made in the Documents Section:
http://www.deltava.org/library/dva%20flight%20academy%20how%20to%20read%20charts%20-%20%201st%20edition.pdf

Andrew Kaufmann (DVA3931)

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