On Tue, 06 Apr 2004 02:41:40 GMT, "Doug Easton"
wrote:

Here's a question for the group from a low time ifr pilot...

The HASSA4 DP out of Ontario, CA specifies a minimum climb gradient that
would take you over the POM vor at 4400ft and then out V197 to the PMD vor.
The MCA for the POM vor nw bound on V197 is 8300ft and the MEA for that
segment is 10000ft. So can I fly the DP with the given climb gradient or am
I going to have to climb in hold at the POM vor?

Thanks


If you were required to climb in a hold at POM, it should have been so
stated in the DP. There is a restriction to climb at 350/375 ft per NM to
9,000 feet. So long as you do that, and then continue to climb at the
standard rate for the altitude above 9,000', you are assured obstacle
clearance.

Note that there is a restriction to cross POM at or *below* 9,000', an
"expect filed altitude" 10 minutes after departure.

Also, be sure to check winds aloft which may impact your climb rate.

In looking at the charts for that area, I see that the southbound MEA on
V197 is only 6400', and the MEA's south of POM are under 5,000', so I
suspect that the climb rate has been calculated to allow you to clear all
obstacles, and there is not an error in the procedure.




Ron (EPM) (N5843Q, Mooney M20E) (CP, ASEL, ASES, IA)