CAY799- Gray
03-28-2008, 01:22 AM
This flight, based in the New York City area, will give you a glimpse into the types of procedures that real airline pilots uses. The flight will be from KACY to KLGA (Atlantic City to LaGuardia).
You can fly these procedures in any airplane, but I recommend the 733 for most realistic results.
Start your flight with clear weather, parked at KACY. We'll be flying the ATLANTIC CITY ONE departure. The ACY1 Departure is a Standard Instrument Departure, or SID for short.
http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/6923/kacyba3.png (http://imageshack.us)
It may look complicated, but what it's doing is giving us a scope on the available exit points for our journey. Quite simply, if you take off and fly to any of those VORs/Intersections, you're flying the Atlantic City One departure. Pretty easy, huh?
Since we're New York Bound, go ahead and file to the Robbinsville VOR (RBV). We'll plan to hit RBV at 9,000, which will be our cruising altitude. Throughout the flight, you should be maintaining 300 knots at the most.
After we hit Robbinsville, we're in for smooth sailing. Get down to 5,000 and Proceed direct to the COL VOR (Colt's Neck). Once we're there, the rest of the flight is visual.
Before we continue, take a look at this Map of the New York area showing the last leg of our route.
http://img182.imageshack.us/img182/7154/nyyq6.png (http://imageshack.us)
As you can see, the path from COL to KLGA takes us just right of the Hudson river.
Once, you hit COL however, you're going to want to get down to 3000, disengage your heading autopilot (keep altitude hold on, however) and fly DIRECTLY along the Hudson river, you should be over the river, not land, for the duration of the flight.
http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/831/klgash0.png (http://imageshack.us)
This is the chart for the River Visual Runway 13 approach into KLGA. They call it that because you're supposed to follow the Hudson as your visual reference. Notice how they use other landmarks such as The Statue of Liberty and Central Park for visual reference. Basically, mantain 2500 allll the way down the river until you are parallel to Central Park. Continue down the river, and as the chart shows, you should turn right roughly a mile north of Central Park to get runway 13 in your sights and fly a classic visual approach.
Voila! You just flew your first flight consisting entirely of Departure and Arrival charts. Proud of yourself?
Hope this helps. Tell me if you have any success or more importantly any questions.
NOTE: If you want to have GPS fly the plane from KACY to COL, that's fine. Just don't forget to fly manually after COL.
You can fly these procedures in any airplane, but I recommend the 733 for most realistic results.
Start your flight with clear weather, parked at KACY. We'll be flying the ATLANTIC CITY ONE departure. The ACY1 Departure is a Standard Instrument Departure, or SID for short.
http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/6923/kacyba3.png (http://imageshack.us)
It may look complicated, but what it's doing is giving us a scope on the available exit points for our journey. Quite simply, if you take off and fly to any of those VORs/Intersections, you're flying the Atlantic City One departure. Pretty easy, huh?
Since we're New York Bound, go ahead and file to the Robbinsville VOR (RBV). We'll plan to hit RBV at 9,000, which will be our cruising altitude. Throughout the flight, you should be maintaining 300 knots at the most.
After we hit Robbinsville, we're in for smooth sailing. Get down to 5,000 and Proceed direct to the COL VOR (Colt's Neck). Once we're there, the rest of the flight is visual.
Before we continue, take a look at this Map of the New York area showing the last leg of our route.
http://img182.imageshack.us/img182/7154/nyyq6.png (http://imageshack.us)
As you can see, the path from COL to KLGA takes us just right of the Hudson river.
Once, you hit COL however, you're going to want to get down to 3000, disengage your heading autopilot (keep altitude hold on, however) and fly DIRECTLY along the Hudson river, you should be over the river, not land, for the duration of the flight.
http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/831/klgash0.png (http://imageshack.us)
This is the chart for the River Visual Runway 13 approach into KLGA. They call it that because you're supposed to follow the Hudson as your visual reference. Notice how they use other landmarks such as The Statue of Liberty and Central Park for visual reference. Basically, mantain 2500 allll the way down the river until you are parallel to Central Park. Continue down the river, and as the chart shows, you should turn right roughly a mile north of Central Park to get runway 13 in your sights and fly a classic visual approach.
Voila! You just flew your first flight consisting entirely of Departure and Arrival charts. Proud of yourself?
Hope this helps. Tell me if you have any success or more importantly any questions.
NOTE: If you want to have GPS fly the plane from KACY to COL, that's fine. Just don't forget to fly manually after COL.