16OCT21 | FNO Down Under - Sydney, Melbourne & Adelaide

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VATUSA in partnership with VATPAC, welcomes you to Friday Night Ops! Join us as we light up the skies between Sydney, Melbourne, and Adelaide! Kicking off on Friday 15th October at 2300z, leave your hangover behind and light up our Australian skies and get your flights planned!

VATPAC will have the skies covered between Sydney, Melbourne, and Adelaide! We encourage you to fly between these airfields in any order you wish. If you are more of the daring type, try flying into our Class D or Class G airfields. 

 

Event Details:

What is Friday Night Ops?

Friday Night Ops is a weekly event run by VATUSA normally visiting places all over the United States! This time around, Friday Night Ops are coming to the land downunder and flying in Australia between Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide. 

Flight Planning

In Australia, flight plans are filed in the ICAO method, with the SID/STAR not included with the initial filing. This will be provided by ATC on contact with clearance delivery (for departure) and with Centre, usually prior to initial descent clearance. 

PDC's in Australia are quite common with controllers handing them out. In Australia all pilots must read back PDC's to the delivery controller. When reading back a PDC, you do not need to read back everything. All you need to read back as a pilot is:

Squawk, Departure Procedure, Runway and advise your bay number.

[PILOT] "Melbourne Delivery, Qantas 436 with PDC readback." 
[ML_DEL] "Qantas 436 g'day Melbourne Delivery, go ahead with PDC readback"
[PILOT] "Qantas 436 is cleared to Sydney, DOSEL1 departure, runway 27, squawk 4457; bay C3"
[ML_DEL] "Qantas 436"

 

 

Routes:

VATPAC recommends the following routes flying into and out of Sydney, Melbourne, and Adelaide. Aerodrome and Procedure Charts can be located here.

YSSY – YMML: DCT TESAT H65 RAZZI Q29 LIZZI DCT (1 hour)

YSSY – YPAD: DCT TESAT A576 KADOM H44 MAXEM Q60 BLACK H309 AD DCT (1 hour 30 minutes)

YMML – YSSY: DCT ML H129 DOSEL Y59 RIVET DCT (1 hour)

YMML – YPAD: DCT ML H345 AD DCT (1 hour)

YPAD – YSSY: DCT AD H247 CULIN Y59 RIVET DCT (1 hour 30 minutes)

YPAD – YMML: DCT AD V255 BENDO Y12 ARBEY H119 ML DCT (1 hour)

 

ATC:

Controllers who wish to control during this event are encouraged to submit their ATC Applications here. Applications will remain open until three days before the event (12OCT21), after which the roster will be released and available for viewing. Non-Standards can be approved during the event as per the NOTAM.

Login Identifier:	Radio Callsign:	Frequency:
SY_DEL	Sydney Delivery	133.800
SY_GND	Sydney Ground	126.500
SY-E_GND*	Sydney East Ground	121.700
SY_TWR	Sydney Tower	120.500
SY-E_TWR*	Sydney East Tower	124.700
SY_APP	Sydney Approach	124.400
SY_DEP*	Sydney Departures	123.000
SY-D_APP*	Sydney Director	126.100
ML_DEL	Melbourne Delivery	127.200
ML_GND	Melbourne Ground	121.700
ML_TWR	Melbourne Tower	120.500
ML_APP	Melbourne Approach	132.000
ML_DEP*	Melbourne Departures	118.900
ML-S_DEP*	Melbourne Departures	129.400
AD_DEL	Adelaide Delivery	126.100
AD_GND	Adelaide Ground	121.700
AD_TWR	Adelaide Tower	120.500
AD_APP	Adelaide Approach	124.200
AD_DEP	Adelaide Approach	118.200
ML-WOL_CTR	Melbourne Centre	125.000
ML-SNO_CTR	Melbourne Centre	124.000
ML-TBD_CTR	Melbourne Centre	125.300
ML-ELW_CTR*	Melbourne Centre	123.750
ML-BIK_CTR*	Melbourne Centre	129.800
ML-MUN_CTR*	Melbourne Centre	132.600
SY-FLW_CTR*	Sydney Flow	N/A
ML-FLW_CTR*	Melbourne Flow	N/A
AD-FLW_CTR*	Adelaide Flow	N/A

 

Scenery:
YMML – Melbourne Airport:
Payware – ORBX (P3D/FSX)
Freeware – Flightsim (MSFS)
Freeware – AVSIM (P3D/FSX)
X-Plane users are recommended to use the default scenery. The default scenery is more up to date than available packages*

YSSY– Sydney  Airport:
Payware - FlyTampa v2 (FSX/P3D)
Payware – FlyTampa (MSFS)
Freeware - AVSIM (FSX/P3D)
Freeware - ISDG (X-Plane)

YPAD – Adelaide Airport:
Payware – AUscene (FSX/P3D)
Payware – ORBX (MSFS)
X-Plane users are recommended to use the default scenery. The default scenery is more up to date than available packages*

We are always looking for feedback about our events! Email [email protected] or visit https://helpdesk.vatpac.org