This route consists basically of airway segments. Here you can think of airways as highways when you
are driving in the car, and the waypoint names can be thought as the exits or interchanges.
In this case, after departing Key West airport (KEYW), we will fly directly to the MARCI fix (a fix is just
an imaginary reference point in the space with latitude and longitude), in order to take the J41 airway
to RSW VOR. Later, from the previous mentioned VOR station, we will take an “exit” to the V7 airway
to the WEBBS fix, and there we will take the V157 airway to LOULO fix.
From LOULO, take the J55 airway to Craig VOR (CRG) followed by the V1 airway to Charleston VOR
(CHS) and the J55 airway again to Florence VOR (FLO), in order to finally arrive to Raleigh-Durham
airport (KRDU).
Now, let’s move on to the process of FMC lateral route initialization. The basic sequence to follow in
order to accomplish this is: Airports Entry, Departure Entry, Enroute Entry and Approach Entry.
Airports Entry
Because the FMC starts with the INDEX page, you can either press the RTE button or press
the LSK 1L in “< IDENT”, then press twice the LSK 6R until you get the RTE page.
The RTE page is the primary page before entering the enroute waypoints. Once you get there,
type KEYW using your keyboard (Keyboard Mode enabled) or by pressing the keys of the
FMC keyboard, then press LSK 1L to set origin airport.
Now type KRDU into the scratchpad and line select it on the LSK 1R to set destination.
Immediately, you will see the route path drawn on the MFD.
Optionally, you can enter the flight number on the FLT NO field at LSK 2R. Just type anything
like the tail number or NX001 on the scratchpad and line select the LSK 2R to insert it.
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