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What Does /Q And /W Stand For (Aircraft Type)  
User currently offlineB6A322 From United States of America, joined Jan 2010, 287 posts, RR: 0
Posted (3 years 1 month 1 week 1 day 5 hours ago) and read 7219 times:

After an aircraft type is listed on flighstats, there is often a /Q or /W. For example:

A380-800/Q
A340-300/W

My question is, what do these suffixes mean, as they tend to alternate on a random basis for most flights.

Thanks.


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User currently offlinePilotboi From United States of America, joined Sep 2007, 2366 posts, RR: 10
Reply 1, posted (3 years 1 month 1 week 1 day 5 hours ago) and read 7198 times:

Type of Transponder and/or NAV equipment. See a complete list here: http://flightaware.com/about/faq_aircraft_flight_plan_suffix.rvt

User currently offlineAcey559 From United States of America, joined Jan 2007, 1337 posts, RR: 2
Reply 2, posted (3 years 1 month 1 week 1 day 4 hours ago) and read 7053 times:

/Q is for RNP and RVSM and /W is for just RVSM.

User currently offlinegoldenshield From United States of America, joined Jan 2001, 5427 posts, RR: 12
Reply 3, posted (3 years 1 month 1 week 8 hours ago) and read 6698 times:

It should be noted that those suffixes are relics of the old ATC filing system, and are only used internally by ATC until the FAA gets around to replacing that system. Users would file something that would look like this:

-B737/M-SDQWZ/S


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