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75 - ATPL - A repetitive flight plan (RPL) is filed for a scheduled flight: Paris-Orly to Angouleme, Paris Orly as alternate. Following heavy snow falls, Angouleme airport will be closed at the expected time of arrival. The airline decides before departure to plan a re-routing of that flight to Limoges.

Question 75 - Flight Planning and Monitoring - ATPL - Airline Transport Pilot license

The RPL must be cancelled for that day and a specific flight plan has to be filed.
The pilot-in-command must advise ATC of his intention to divert to Limoges at least 15 minutes before the planned time of arrival.
It is not possible to plan another destination and the flight has to be simply cancelled that day (scheduled flight and not chartered).
The airline's 'Operations ' Department has to transmit a change in the RPL at the ATC office, at least half an hour before the planned time of departure.

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