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1 August 2017

APPENDIX 2: CRJ900 FLIGHT FROM DÜSSELDORF (DUS) TO BASEL (BSL)

This is a description of Germanwings flight 4U9712 according the schedule as published on their webpage for

Saturday March 7, 2015. We will be flying one of their Bombardier CRJ900 registered under D-ACNN belonging

to Eurowings (now Lufthansa CityLine) which will execute this flight as operator. The planned departure time is

07:00 am and the arrival should be 70 minutes later at 8:10 am.

We will start with our flight planning. Have a safe flight!

Please note that Vol 3 of the manual includes a more in-depth step by step flight.

FLIGHT PLANNING

ROUTING

Departure airport: Düsseldorf (IATA: DUS – ICAO: EDDL)

Destination airport: Basel (IATA: BSL – ICAO: LFSB)

Alternate airport: Zurich (IATA: ZRH – ICAO: LSZH)

For European flights, VATroute http://www.vatroute.net/ is a good and simple flight planning page to obtain a

typical route. The query result for EDDL-LFSB at our predicted flight reads like this:

FL196-FL315 MODRU Z283 SUMAS UZ283 RITAX UT27 GTQ UN852 ARPUS

We select flight level 290 (FL290) and the route distance has been calculated to 280 nautical miles (NM). An

additional 20 NM are added to cover departure and arrival routes. As alternate airport, we selected Zurich

(LSZH). The distance from LFSB is 45 NM plus 20 NM for the arrival route. We do expect taking off from runway

23L and following the Standard Instrument Departure route (SID) called MODRU 1T.

WEATHER

This is a typical spring morning with refreshing 3 °C, light clouds and a moderate, south-easterly wind on

ground.

Based on this data we expect to be taking off from runway 23L. For flight planning we conclude an average

wind component of eleven knots from 032 degrees (11/032) at FL290 and a headwind component of -22 knots

(tailwind) according the weather forecast at cruise altitude.