Created a flight from RCKH to ZSPD. It gave me the following FL STEPS RCKH/0170/HLG/0540/DST/0570
17000ft, 5400m (17700ft) and 5700m (18700ft)
China uses metric altitudes
Is there anything in the briefing to indicate that or do you just have to know?
Also the alternate plan has FL197 (feet instead of meters)
Oh I just noticed different annotations in the route:
RCKH/27 N0275F170 TNN1H TNN W4 HLG/K0507S0540 DCT DUMAS DCT DST/K0506S0570 B221 REMIM DCT BK BK11A ZSPD/16L
If I’m understanding correctly N means knots, F means feet, K means km/h, and S means meters?
Correct:
CRUISING SPEED
True airspeed for the first or the whole cruise
portion of the flight, set as: “N” for Knots
followed by a four-digit figure, “M” for Mach
followed by a three-digit figure, or “K” for
Kilometers/H followed by a four-digit number.
i.e. K0830, N0485, M082
LEVEL
Planned cruising level for the first or the whole
portion of the flight, set as: “F” for Flight Level in
100s of feet, “A” for plain altitude in 100s of feet,
“S” for Standard Metric Level in tens of metres,
“M” for plain altitude in tens of metres, or “V” for
uncontrolled VFR (number field left blank).
i.e. F330, M0840, A045
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