First, let's look at the charts you'll need — Page 165, Lesson 166

I want to walk you through a practical navigation exercise that brings together everything you've learned about flight planning, charts, and airways procedures. This is the start of a series of questions and exercises designed to get you actually filling out an airways flight log, just as you would in the cockpit or in the planning room. First, let's look at the charts you'll need. The exercise asks you to study three specific Jeppesen charts together with their relevant legends. The first is the LONDON, UK and PARIS, FRANCE AREA chart — that's your area chart covering the departure and arrival terminal environments. The second is E(LO)2 — that's a low-level en-route chart, covering the airspace structure at lower altitudes. The third is E(HI)4 — a high-level en-route chart, which you'll use for the cruise portion of this flight. Now, the exercise itself is called Airways Exercise 1 (LOG). You're given a blank flight log table with columns you need to fill. Let me walk you through the columns so you know exactly what each one means. The columns are: FROM — the departure point or waypoint; TO — the next point; AWY/SID/STAR — the airway, Standard Instrument Departure, or Standard Terminal Arrival Route used; FL — flight level; VRN. — variation, the magnetic variation; W/V (MAG) — wind direction and speed in degrees magnetic; TR. (MAG) — track in degrees magnetic; TR. (TRUE) — track in degrees true; HDG. (MAG) — heading in degrees magnetic; TAS — true airspeed; WC — wind component; GS — groundspeed; DIST — distance; EET — estimated elapsed time; and ETA — estimated time of arrival. The table already has some entries filled in as a starting point. For example, from EGLL — that's London Heathrow's ICAO code — to D12 LON, with a variation of 14, and a wind of 340 degrees at 6 knots. Then from MID (TOC) — that's the MID VOR/DME, which is your top of climb point — to the UIR BDY — the Upper Information Region boundary — at flight level 250, with a true airspeed of 250 knots. Then from the UIR BDY to SOKMA, also at FL250, with an ATC restriction noted. Then from MERUE (TOD) — that's your top of descent point — to LFPG — Paris Charles de Gaulle — with an ATC restriction, at FL300, with a distance of 40 and an estimated elapsed time of 12 minutes. Totals are at the bottom. Now let's get into the actual exercise. You're given specific information to complete the enclosed Airways Flight Plan. The charts you need are: the SID chart — specifically London Heathrow MIDHURST DEPARTURES; the AREA chart — LONDON - UK and PARIS - FRANCE; the EN ROUTE chart — E(HI)4; and the STAR chart — PARIS, FRANCE, Charles de Gaulle. The route is from LONDON HEATHROW (EGLL) at coordinates N5129 W0028 to PARIS CDG (LFPG) at coordinates N4901 E0233. You depart EGLL using the SID MID 3G to the MID VOR/DME; the aircraft is airborne at 0623 UTC. Then you follow the ATS route to BOGNA at coordinates N5042.1 W00015.0. Important note: on the E(HI)4 chart, this position is called WOR — so BOGNA and WOR are the same point, just different names depending on the chart. From BOGNA you go to HARDY at N5028.3 E00029.5, and then to DPE at N4955.6 E00111.3. Arrival is via the STAR DPE 1E, 1W to Paris CDG. You're also given the meteorological winds. At FL250, from MID to HARDY, the wind is 300/85 — that's 300 degrees true at 85 knots. From HARDY to DPE, the wind is 300/60 — 300 degrees true at 60 knots. Your TAS at FL250 is 390 knots. So, to complete this exercise, you would take that blank log and fill in each leg: from EGLL to MID via the SID, then MID to BOGNA/WOR, then BOGNA to HARDY, then HARDY to DPE, then DPE to LFPG via the STAR. For each leg, you'd calculate your magnetic track, apply the wind to get your heading and groundspeed, compute the distance, and then work out your estimated elapsed time and ETA. The variation, wind, and TAS are given to get you started. That's the setup for this exercise. Now you have the full picture of what you're being asked to do with those charts and that flight log.