Comedy Tour

For this assignment you are going to be introduced to a set of procedures know as US terminal Procedures.
They consist of two types (SID and STAR) SID (Standard Instrument Departures) and STAR (Standard Terminal Arrival Route) are
FAA approved routes that aircraft use to fly in and out of busy airports. These routes are made up of a set of pre-established way-points (NDB, VOR, Intersections, Maximum altitudes). They allow aircraft to enter and leave airport airspace while being in contact with the Air Traffic Controllers. When these procedures are placed into your Flight Plan and is approved, they become a part of your flight plan and do not change unless ATC has a specific reason such as weather or emergency operations. ATC always maintains control of the airspace but if the procedure is approved by ATC then they only monitor your flight path and will generally not contact you unless you begin to deviate from the procedure.

The first two legs of this assignment will explain the US terminal procedures to you in a hands on format.
After that you will be given the files and will be expected to fly them on your own.
Again these procedures only apply for departure and arrival in controlled airspace and does not apply to your en-route flight plan
except to help you navigate to your first designated en-route way-point.

The Assignment:
Due to a snafu in scheduling the 4 members of the Comedy Tour have been left stranded at KLAX. They have made last minute arrangements with Eagle Charters to fly them to all of the cities on the tour in US and Canada. This is a very important assignment as Eagle has only down this before with the US Poker Tour. This could be a brand new source of revenue for the company so it is important that we pay attention to flight plans and time schedules.
You will be flying a corporate twin engine jet. Either a Lear, Cessna Citation, or Gulfstream, or Hawker can be used.

Weight
(200 lbs for the pilot & Copilot, 250 per passenger, cargo 200 lbs per pilot, copilot, and passengers)
Make sure to load the aircraft weight into the payload using the payload menu in FS.

Fuel Load (make sure not to run out in flight, it will make for a very bad day for our passengers)

Maximum altitude 51000 feet depending on which jet that you use

Maximum speed Mach .82 depending on the type of aircraft
Remember you are restricted to 250 knot or less in the US and Canada below 10000 feet
Transition Level in US and Canada is 18000 feet.

LEG 1:
Fly from KONT to KLAX (pick up our passengers)

KONT SID PROCEDURE: (PRADO SEVEN)
   (See attached ZIP file for Chart)

DCT PDZ (Paradise) up to minimum of 5500' prior to Homeland (HDF) or )11000' maximum after passing Homeland turn left to 080 to
Thermal (TRM) at 11000'.

KLAX STAR PROCEDURE: (OCEAN TWO)
   (See attached ZIP file for Chart)

(DCT JLI (Julian VOR) to OCN (Oceanside VOR) toMZB (Mission Bay VOR) cross MBZ at 12000' to SLI (Seal Beach VOR) at or below 6000' turn left to 251 degrees to DOYLE (Intersec) at or below 5000' turn right to 309 inbound to EXERT (Insect) turn right to 066 inbound to LAX (Los Angeles VOR) cross LAX at 2000'.

Your Flight Plan would read:

DCT PRADO SEVEN JIL OCEAN 2 DCT

Land on the appropriate runway and taxi to a gate to pick up your passengers.

LEG 2:

   KLAX to KSEA

Standard Instrument Departure (SID): (Gorman Four Departure)

The following is the written instructions for the Gorman Four Departure from KLAX.
Please note that the procedure allows you to take off either to the east or to the west. Make sure you follow the right
procedure for the runway heading from which you are departing.

Rwys 6L, 7L/R: Standard.

NOTE: Maintain at or below 250 knots unless otherwise directed by ATC.
NOTE: Use the VENTURA DEPARTURE during the time periods of 2100-0700 local in lieu of the GORMAN DEPARTURE procedure.
NOTE: Rwy 6L, Building 1813’ from departure end of rwy, 942’ left of centerline, 201’ MSL.
NOTE: Rwy 6R, Building 5551’ from departure end of rwy, 1790’ right of centerline, 306’ MSL.
NOTE: DME required for Rwy 6L/R departures and AVENAL TRANSITION.

TAKE-OFF RUNWAYS 6L/R: Climb via heading 070^ until LAX VORTAC 3 DME, then turn left
heading 055^ for vector to join VNY R-126 to VNY VOR/DME, then via VNY R-317 and GMN R-136
to GMN VORTAC. Thence.

TAKE-OFF RUNWAYS 7L/R: Climb via heading 070^ for vector to join VNY R-126 to VNY VOR/DME,
then via VNY R-317 and GMN R-136 to GMN VORTAC. Thence.

TAKE-OFF RUNWAYS 24L/R,25L/R: Climb via heading 250^ to cross SMO R-154 at or below 3000,
then via radar vectors to proceed via LAX R-323 and GMN R-142 to GMN VORTAC. Thence.
.via (assigned transition) or (assigned route). Al aircraft expect further clearance to filed flight level
three minutes after departure.

AVENAL TRANSITION (GMN4.AVE): From over GMN VORTAC via GMN R-310 and AVE R-086
to AVE VORTAC.

SHAFTER TRANSITION (GMN4.EHF): From over GMN VORTAC via GMN R-328 and EHF R-150
to EHF VORTAC.

LOST COMMUNICATIONS: If not in contact with departure control within five minutes after departure,
climb to FL230 or filed altitude whichever is lower. Aircraft filing FL240 or above climb to filed
altitude ten minutes after departure.

Rwys 24L/R, 25L/R: Standard with minimum climb of 250’ per NM to 3100.

FLIGHT PLAN:

GORMAN FOUR DCT EHF J5 FMG LKV J67 BTG OLYMPIA SIX DCT

For the purpose of this example I chose to take off to the west using either runway 24L/R or 25L/R.
The procedure says to fly 250 after take off and intercept the 154 radial to SMO.
Ouch, how do we do that?
Guess maybe!
Not unless you want to hit someone coming from another direction or you want the FAA to yank your pilot certification
that you spent a ton of money to get. Without your certification you are not going to make a whole lot of coin standing in the
hanger.
So what is the secret?
Tune your NAV-2 radio to the Santa Monica (SMO) VOR frequency 110.8 before takeoff. After take off establish your heading of 250 degrees as soon as possible and keep an eye on your NAV-2 needle. It will move and prior to it getting to the 154 degree mark start a right hand turn until your are fly on 154 degrees straight toward the SMO VOR. Once you cross the SMO VOR tune NAV-2 to the
GORMAN VOR of 116.1 and turn right until the needle is almost reading 232 or you can tune to the LAX VOR until the needle is near the 142 degree mark then run left to 323 degrees inbound to GMN VOR.

Once we cross the GMN VOR we have a transition procedure to follow to get to our route of flight. This is called the Shafter Transition.
This procedure will hook us up with our high altitude airway J5. Once we cross Gorman VOR we tune the NAV-1 radio this time to the SHAFTER VOR (EHF) on a frequency of 115.4 and because we are flying directly at the VOR instead of making a turn this gets a bit sticky because needle will stay pretty much centered. Since we were flying 323 degrees to GMN and we know need to fly 328 degrees
to EHF we will need to adjust our radio until it reads 328 degrees and check which side of center our flag is on. If it stays centered we are right on the radial if the flag is on the left side of the needle turn the aircraft left about 10 degrees until the flag begins to move toward the center and then slowly turn right. This is not as easy as it sounds because it you turn to sharp the flag will stop and begin to backtrack to the left and if you are to slow the needle will move past center to the right and you will need to catch up and pass the radial and the needle stops tracking right and begins to track back left.
The same procedure is used if the flag is to the right of center. Turn right about 10 degrees and when the needle begins to move toward center turn left. This is called chasing the radial. Once you pass Shafter VOR you will be on J5 so you are now on your
flight path until you reach the point where your Star procedure begins.

STAR ARRIVAL: OLYMPIA SIX

OK here we go. Olympia Six has two transitions. I have us flying to the BATTLE GROUND (BTG) VOR so we will use the Battle Ground Transition. Since BTG is on our flight path the NAV-1 should already be tuned to the 116.6 frequency. According to our procedure we need to tune NAV-2 to the OLYMPIA (OLM) VOR 113.4 frequency and follow the 329 degree radial to the VOR. We do the same procedure that we used in our SID for the Shafter Transition. Once established on the 329 radial we can tune our NAV-1 to the
116.6 frequency because we are going to need our NAV-2 and set that up to the SEATTLE VOR of 116.8

Once we pass OLM we need to establish and inbound radial of 022 degrees to the SEA VOR and switch the SEA VOR frequency to the NAV-1 radio as soon as possible.
We are going to need the NAV-2 for our the next part of the procedure.

Once established on the 022 radial we have 2 important intersection that we have to deal with (ARVAD & FOURT).

We pass right over both of these intersection but our STAR Transition procedure ends at FOURT Intersection. From there we have to
make a choice of either turning right to 070 degrees or left to 340 degrees to establish on either a northern or southern ISL landing approach to the airport.

So how are you going to accomplish this little feat of magic?
Intersections do not have radio navigation aides.
We are going to need to set the NAV-2 radio to the MC CHORD (TCM) VOR of 109.6
Our transition procedure tells us that ARVAD intersection is at a radial of 294 degrees with TCM VOR and FOURT intersection is at
a 136 radial with the TCM VOR. So we are going to watch the NOV-2 needle and if we are on our 022 degree heading to SEA we
should be of ARVAD when the NAV-2 needle points to 294 degrees and over FOURT when the needle points to 336 degrees.

Then its up to you as to witch runway you are going to land on as to which direction and radial you turn on.

ONE LAST IMPORTANT NOTE:

I have attached the procedure charts for this assignment.
They are WZIP files in PDF format so you will need to unzip them and use ADOBE to read them.

I will also attach the rest of the legs as I get a chance but this is enough to get everyone started.