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Direct to intermediate approach fix?
Yesterday, we had filed /G (with a CNX-80). Our clearance was KPOU IGN
V157 HAARP -D- KHPN. Nothing out of the ordinary there. HPN was using the ILS-16 (http://204.108.4.16/d-tpp/0612/00651I16.PDF) We were on V157 somewhere north of VALRE when we got "fly heading 200 to intercept, um, no, tell you what, proceed direct FARAN, cleared ILS-16". This is a pretty common thing for NY Approach to say, but as I study the chart now, I don't think it's legit. I asked NY Approach for an initial heading to FARAN and got back an annoyed sounding, "it's the initial approach fix" (along with a 200 heading). The problem is, it's NOT an IAF. Which means that you can't pick it out of the menu of IAFs for the approach. And since it wasn't on our original route, you can't pick it out of the flight plan. You need to spell it out letter by letter from the database (which takes a while, hence the request for an initial heading). The alternative would be to select IGN as the IAF from the approach menu, execute that, then go into the flight plan and select direct to FARAN. Except that it takes a while to figure that out, and I'm not even sure if the box will let you do it. It was my understanding that there's only two legit ways to clear a flight for an approach -- give them direct to an IAF, or give them vectors to the FAC. In this case, "direct FARAN, cleared ILS" is neither. Am I correct that this is a bum clearance? If they want to send people direct to FARAN (which they often do), why don't they just declare FARAN to be an IAF? Then it would get into the database that way, it would show up on everybody's IAF menus, and we would all be happy campers. |
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