Originally Posted by
CptRexKramer
Again, this really isn't the proper venue for your question. But just to clear up a major source of confusion for you:
You're conflating two separate functions, single engine terrain clearance and depressurization routes. The former is primarily a dispatch function, the latter a pilot responsibility in flight.
I don't mean to sound harsh, but if you're that murky on the subject you should probably reach out to a checkairman/the training department.
Umm. I know the difference between the two. Let me phrase the question another way. If your release says in the TRR column that the maximum altitude of terrain between the waypoints on your route of flight is less than 10000' would you be safe/legal/stupid if you did not plan your escape routes even though you are flying thru the brown shaded areas on the Critical Terrain chart? You could stay on course, descend to 10000' immediately, and not hit any rocks. I posed the question to the training department today and they did not have an answer. When we were re-routed and I did not have good info for the max terrain altitudes between waypoints then the escape routes were good to have. I simply asked the dispatcher to send me new release info containing max terrain altitude between the waypoints for the re-route and he did not respond in a timely fashion.
The consensus is this is the wrong place for this thread, so that's it for me.