When using the new route planner, how do you specify to avoid a particular SIGMET when many SIGMETS have the same name? I can’t seem to get a more specific name for each one.
This doesn’t work when multiple SIGMETs around the map are named the same.
Hello, I have sent this to the dev team.
The decision was made to do it this way for simplicity.
Yes, typing in the SIGMET name will avoid all SIGMETs with that name. But is there really a situation where you need to avoid one SIGMET with that name, and absolutely not avoid the other ones? Especially since often times, the other SIGMETs with the same name will not intersect your route anyways, and will make no difference to the resulting route.
Maybe there is a set of circumstances we have not considered, if so, please provide a more detailed description and/or screenshot of the issue this is causing in your specific workflow.
Best regards,
One circumstance I can think of is when intersecting two SIGMETS, but one has an altitude ceiling lower than my planned altitude at that point, or that the validity will be expired by the estimated point at passing.
I don’t have a concrete example to hand, but in the past when I was planning a flight from VHHH to YSSY, there was a convective SIGMET in the South China Sea, which you’d do well to avoid, but there’s a SIGMET of the same name across basically the whole Australian continent (which I forgot if its icing or turbulence). You can’t very well do a detour right around Australia to get to Sydney.