Sydney Bankstown to Lake Macquarie via Victor 1

Event Details

Simulation Date/Time : Current date set to daylight.

Weather : Real World / Fair weather if real world is unsuitable for VFR operations.

Distance : 165 nm

Est Flight Time : approx 70 mins

Aircraft : Single or twin engine aircraft such as Beechcraft Baron, Mooney Bravo or similar capable of 155 to 185 kias.

Communications

Australia uses CTAF (Common Traffic Advisory Frequency) for radio comms at uncontrolled airfields.

FSCopilot/FSInn

VATSIM pilots connecting to the network using FSCOPILOT/FSINN can install an additional file that provides the ability to tune the CTAF frequency and make voice announcements to other pilots on frequency. These files can be obtained via this link.

Swift

Swift is a recent VATSIM Pilot Client alternative now released to the public as a beta release candidate. This pilot client is a one fits all alternative and will work with FSX, P3D V3/V4 and XPlane in either 32 bit Windows or 64 bit Windows, Mac and Linux. This client, once installed and configured (not for the faint of heart - some guidance can be found in this video tutorial for those with X-Plane on Windows x64), also provides a capability for pilots to designate a private voice channel to allow communication with other pilots in the same voice channel. However, to do this requires a frequency over ride to be set allowing the client to ignore the set frequency instead providing text entry into a text box. Into this box the name of the voice room needs to be entered to enable voice communication. A voice room is typically in the form of "some.server.org/<Airport ICAO>". The server component is ALWAYS "rw1.vatpac.org". So this week's departure would use "rw1.vatpac.org/<Airport ICAO>".
For airports without an airport ICAO it is typical to use VATPAC VFR Virtual voice room acccessed using 131.25 in FSINN. The equivalent for SWIFT is "rw1.vatpac.org/virtualvfr".

Altitude : Not above FL125

Flightplan

File as : YSBK YWBN YMIG YWOL JIBN SYHD HBB NOHD LRF BRNJ YLMQ

GPS Flightplan is available for FSX and X-Plane FMS and also provided is the original Plan-G flightplan for those that find this useful all enclosed within a Zip archive.

Navigation : Pilots familiar with the area can navigate visually, for those less familiar the accompanying GPS Flightplan is the recommended method of navigating the flight plan.

Recommended Scenery

• ORBX Australia
• ANTS AUSSIE AIRPORTS
• OZX 3.5 AU Scenery
• Bazz's Australian and PNG Scenery for X-Plane
• Sydney Overlay

Flight Details

* NOTE Frequency 131.25 - "rw1.vatpac.org/virtualvfr"

• BANKSTOWN [YSBK] Takeoff
  elev : 34
  rwy : 11R/29L 11L/29R 11C/29C asphalt
  CTAF : 132.80
  NDB : BK BANKSTOWN SYDNEY 416.0

• WEDDERBURN [YWBN] T&G - H-197° D-18
  elev : 850
  rwy : 35/17 bitumen
  CTAF : 122.55

• MITTAGONG [YMIG] T&G - H-211° D-22
  elev : 1840
  rwy : 06/24ns dirt
  CTAF : 126.70

• WOLLONGONG [YWOL] T&G - H-102° D-16
  elev : 31
  rwy : 08/26 16/34 asphalt
  CTAF : 127.30
  NDB : WOL WOLLONGONG 239.0

• JIBBON POINT [JIBN] Overfly - Coastal D-34

• SYDNEY HEADS [SYHD] Overfly - VICTOR 1 D-16

• HARBOUR BRIDGE [HBB] Overfly - visual
  Pilots intending to execute a circuit of Sydney Harbour will need to contact Sydney Approach if it is active and request a "Circuit of Sydney Harbour"

• NORTH HEAD [NOHD] Overfly - VICTOR 1 D-5

• LONG REEF [LRF] Overfly - VICTOR 1 D-5

• BARRENJOEY HEAD [BRNJ] Overfly - Coastal D-10

• LAKE MACQUARIE [YLMQ] Land - Coastal D-35
  Formerly Aeropelican [YPEC]
  elev : 5
  rwy : 07/25 sealed
  CTAF : 132.10 (FSINN 131.25)

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