Event created by Daniel M - 965838
This Weeks Flight for Wednesday 11th May 2022 takes us to Austria flying a VFR training route from Zell am See (LOWZ) to Wiener Neustadt Ost (LOAN).
Flight suggested by David Bromage
This is a real life VFR training route in eastern Austria. It's based around Wiener Neustadt Ost (LOAN) airport which is the home of Diamond Aircraft Industries (their main factory) and several flight schools. There is quite a strict approach to this airport due to military airspace to the west and the main Vienna airport (LOWW) to the north.
The route uses prominent landmarks such as churches and castles, but also some encoded VFR waypoints (shown in the flight plan). Most of these points relate to entry and exit points for circuits. Airfields along the route with circuits include Niederoblarn (LOGO) Aigen im Ennstal (LOXA) Trieben (LOGI) Leoben (LOGT) Kapfenberg (LOGK) where you can either T&G or just fly the circuit at altitude and keep going it is up to you.
Here are the VFR circuit charts for the departure and arrival airports.
https://eaip.austrocontrol.at/lo/220325/Charts/SECONDARY_%20LOWZ/LO_AD_2_LOWZ_14-2_en.pdf
https://eaip.austrocontrol.at/lo/220325/Charts/SECONDARY_%20LOAN/LO_AD_2_LOAN_14-2_en.pdf
For the arrival at LOAN from the south you have to fly G > O > M > L > H to the circuit.
Scenery: Due to the plethora of flight sim programs now in use scenery is at the discretion of each pilot. At times the flight author might include links for addon MSFS2020 as that is what he uses personally.
Irrespective of what scenery you choose to use it is strongly recommended to run your sim to check that the scenery works and does not cause any CTD or other issues as the author assumes no responsibility for the effects of downloaded scenery.
Aircraft: Perhaps a Diamond DA60 would be appropriate however any capable of 150 kias
Comms: Tune Radio to 122.80MHz - Unless Advised by ATC or further detailed hereunder
Flight Route: Details not provided as there are too many waypoints to print out. Just refer to the flight plans available for download below.
Weather: Real time weather, fair weather if conditions are not suitable for VFR Flying.
Flight Plan:(LOWZ-LOAN)< Just click on this link for Flight Plan for .fms and .pln
BELOW: MAP OF ROUTE
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