Do planes have specified route?

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  silverscorpion

  Of course they do.. If not, there are bound to be worst collisions and accidents..
  
  For all purposes, ocean and the sky are nothing different from roads, except they don't have traffic signals.
  Other than that, air planes and ships do have a very definite route prescribed for them. If for some reason like a storm or lack of visibility, that route could not be taken, then some alternatives will be there.
  
  Again, I'm not exactly sure how it all works, but common sense will tell you that if you allow planes to randomly take whichever route they want to reach a destination, then sooner or later, some plane or the other will crash into some other plane.
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  PraveenKumar Purushothaman

  Well, SS, you are right... Planes use Radar technology to track their location and send it to the base. The base will be monitoring the traffic and the route and they would be giving them the instructions like when to take a turn and the angle of flight. I guess I am right... Something called autopilot mode is also available where, these activities are done by the automated machine, instead of the human intervention... 😀
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  CIVILPRINCESS

  yes they have specific route. i'll tell you what i know of the air traffic route control. there air air traffic control centres situated in many places around the earth. they have a specific region under their supervision. when a plane moves from one place to another the ATCC keep giving them the instruction as the altitude and angle which they have to follow. most of these air traffic control towers are located in the airports.
  
  
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  CIVILPRINCESS

  even while landing they will be given instruction by these ATC centres and the planes have to be circling in the air till they get the permission to land. so the plane is controlled from the ground throughout it's journey.
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  Saandeep Sreerambatla

  Yep it uses Radar technology, you have to move in a direction if you are making a mistake it corrects you.
  
  Its more or less uses satellite communication etc.
  
  and Auto pilot mode is something else, as I know it is used in scenarios where pilot will be unable to control the plane.
  
  For example if the left engine is malfunctioning then the pilot has to pull with much force on the left side in these scenarios Auto pilot will help.
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  PraveenKumar Purushothaman

  Hey, someone said me that, when the fuel gets low or drained, the flight bursts! Is it true and why does it occur???