Most of newbies don't know much things about SIDs. Well, SIDs
(Standard Instrumental Departure) allow to ATCs and pilots an structured departure of the airports making more fluid the departures and avoiding airborne conflicts. With the help of Paul Gibson(the writer) we can explain today the "keys" for understand a SID:
To begin you will need the following charts, which can be obtained via this link: - http://www.nats-uk.ead-it.com/public/index.php%3Foption=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=41&Itemid=90.html
You will need to find aerodrome chart 2.1 and
Once you have these, load your flight simulator to a gate of your choice at EGFF Cardiff set weather to clear, ensure you fly the default Boeing 737 for this lesson.
A departure chart is a set route out from an airport of choice that enables the safe routing of traffic; this route will keep you clear of other traffic and terrain such as mountains!
It also helps ATC manage the flow of traffic away from the airport.
*ATC have given us our departure clearance which is ‘Runway 12’ and the
*Once we have taxied into position on ‘Runway 12’ open your departures chart after take off we will fly heading 120 as indicated on the chart. Do you see 120 marked on the chart? That is our Heading.
*I-CDF is the Cardiff VOR which is on frequency 110.70 set this as NAV1 on your flight display, you will now see CDF 0.5 this is your distance to the VOR, also known as your DME (Distance Measuring Equipment).
*On the chart it says CDF 4.5 and 2600 what this means is at 4.5 miles from CDF we need to be above 2600 ft also as you can see at CDF 4.5 we begin a left turn to heading 002.
*Now set NAV1 to the BCN (BREACON) VOR which is 117.45.You should now see on the flight display BCN and your distance from the VOR.
At this point on the chart we can see BCN D19 and 3500 so when our DME is BCN D19 we need to be above 3500ft.
*Next we see 4500 so continue climbing to 4500ft, and then there is a right turn onto heading 060 this heading should be to the
Set your NAV1 to HON 113.65.
*Our next instruction is HON D65.2 6000 do you see it has a line ABOVE and BELOW it? This means at 65.2nm from the HON VOR we need to be level at 6000ft.
We continue to
*At
We highly recommend the use of a FMC (Flight Management Computer) as five letter waypoints e.g. ALVIN have no marker in flight simulator, the only way to find the ALVIN waypoint or any other five letter waypoint is by using an FMC.
An FMC can be obtained from this link free of charge: - http://vas-project.org/
Victor NOTE-->
(PERSONALLY RECOMENDED and TESTED BUT ONLY FOR FS9or lower don't works with FSX),
Victor Suau NOTE on Victor's Note: Tested on FS9, works perfectly ;)
Do not use this technique online i.e. Vatsim IVAO until you are competent and confident!
We hope this lesson has been informative and helpful to you as a new pilot and encourages you to keep on practising and enjoying your flights.
Keep checking back for more lessons on FS NAVIGATION.
WRITER: PAUL GIBSON
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