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    Mackay Tower - Procedural

    in Airspace

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    Hi Bill,

    This procedure allows an IFR aircraft that is unable to accept a SID to depart and climb to the MSA when it is not VMC.  The SID will be issued alongside the tracking instructions.  For example, "ABC clr to SY via the 145 radial to SMITH then flight planned route, MACKAY1 departure..."  This means the aircraft will climb on the SID to the altitude on the chart then track to intercept the outbound radial as directed (left/right turn).

    It also provides some flexibility for Mackay Approach to issue a departure heading when the tower is closed.

    Cheers,
    Brett

     

    Euroscope and radar coverage

    in Pilot Clients and Utilities

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    Hi all,

     

    Wondering if someone can enlighten me as to how Euroscope simulates radar coverage?  Have experienced a few scenarios where coverage should exist however an aircraft is not showing on the scope at a level where I would expect to be able to see them.  Examples include YMIA (only identified passing FL180 when class E LL is 125) and YMHB (only identified passing about 7000ft when class C LL is 4500ft).

     

    Cheers,

    Brett

    TMA Supplement Updates

    in Training

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    Just need to clarify the TMA map versus the Supplement for Melbourne. In the Supplement the CTA step south and east of Essendon is 015-020 however on the TMA map it is LL-020.

     

    If someone is able to clarify whether the step exists or not now that would be appreciated.

     

    Cheers,

    Brett

    Pilots and radio etiquette

    in Pilot Training

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    First and foremost, congrats to all and sundry on WF09. I only had the opportunity to be involved on Sunday arvo as ML ADC/SMC for the 'milk-run' to SY but going the pictures and comments it was a great success. I also hope that it raised a lot of cash for the RFDS...a great cause!

     

    With the shear volume of traffic being processed with such events, it highlighted to me an issue that impacts both pilots and ATC.

     

    Pilots need to be a little more patient when there is a large volume of traffic that needs to be processed, particularly where ADC and SMC (and potentially TWR) are combined. The main issue was pilots jumping in between calls from other aircraft to ATC and vice-versa (...that and one pilot holding down their push-to-talk button for 15 minutes!).

     

    When an aircraft calls ATC, there may be a small delay (a second or two) in the ATC response due to them having to locate the aircraft calling or locate the flight plan etc. This delay shouldn't be used as an opportunity to for another aircraft to call ATC as they are already dealing with another aircraft. Once ATC has finished with that aircraft, jump in and contact ATC.

     

    One of the great things that I saw when controlling on Sunday was pilots patience with getting airways clearances! It does help a lot when there are large traffic volumes and ATC also having to make sure that pilots taxi correctly based on their taxi clearance so no-one crashes!

     

    Please don't take this as a whine ;) but an idea to make sure that aircraft are processed efficiently by ATC to get you guys up and away in a timely manner.

     

    Brett

    Tuesday Online 18/08/09 NZQN

    in Regular Events

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    Disappointed I missed this one but was actually in Queenstown so here's a few photos from the trip to make it a little more realistic. QF177 ML to QN and one of the best approaches in the southern hemisphere...I'm uploading the video to youtube tonight

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