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07-31-2017 | 01:05 PM

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John Carr

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Originally Posted by RI830

One can fly over Polar routes, Siberia or parts of Africa that could get them into an ETOPS scenario but aren't over a body of water.

So to answer your question, ETOPS only isn't going to get them the routing you said. They will be Ext Overwater equipped for that route.

Right. And to make it more fun, the flight doesn't have to be filed ETOPS the ENTIRE segment.

A buddy of mine showed me a flight he did where it was only required for ~3 miles/20 seconds of a 14 hour flight.

07-31-2017 | 03:08 PM

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Adlerdriver

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Originally Posted by John Carr

It would be pretty rare to be ETOPS for an entire flight. But, a flight is either ETOPS or it's not, no matter how long you actually spend in ETOPS airspace. Indy to Paris we had one segment and were only ETOPS for 1:38. Pretty normal for NAT crossing. KIX-MEM we had two segments, the first was about 1:40 and then out near the Aleutians, back in for ~2 hours. Further south it can be 3 segments.

I've been on the one you're talking about with just a few minutes, which is typical in western China/Kazakhstan. In for a minute, in for an hour, you still have to jump through the same hoops prior to entry and your flight plan say "ETOPS".