If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. |
|
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
#11
|
|||
|
|||
All this info is also contained on the IFR charts. Most useful
even for VFR flying. |
#12
|
|||
|
|||
On Fri, 08 Aug 2003 11:29:31 GMT, David Megginson
wrote: aaronw writes: I am assuming the 'worst that could happen' is that I call Center and they say 'no, dummy, you want to call XXX approach on YYY'. My question is - is there any way to find out this information beforehand? Don't the U.S. sectionals have frequencies printed right on them? Well, I am looking at my Washington and New York sectionals. Both of them seem to have little boxes saying 'Contact XXX approach within 20nm on YYY'. However, on a closer glance these appear to be *ONLY* for the class Cs I can see at a glance - ACY, RIC, ORF, ISP, etc. Of course, the controlling approach facility for ISP is New York Approach, which is the same one that JFK/EWR/LGA use. I do not see a little box printed in the sectional with the PHL, DCA/BWI/IAD, JFK/EWR/LGA, or BOS approach frequncies. Maybe that is because they tend to have many many more (but then they're also spread out in a wider place, as well...) As someone else mentioned, though, there are indeed approach frequencies given by radials from I assume the on-field VOR in the side tab, which is of course seems to be always folded in the most inaccessible place when I am in the cockpit. Then there's also stuff like I mentioned before - specifically Patuxent approach. In the Washington sectional if you look at the northern tip of R-4006 there's a little box that says 'Patuxent Approach 127.95' All fine and good. So if they are so precise about the boundaries of, for example, R-4006 by putting them on the sectional, why don't they give me some idea of how far away Patuxent's radar domain reaches instead of just 'Well, somewhere around .... there...' aw |
#13
|
|||
|
|||
aaronw wrote:
Don't the U.S. sectionals have frequencies printed right on them? Well, I am looking at my Washington and New York sectionals. Both of them seem to have little boxes saying 'Contact XXX approach within 20nm on YYY'. However, on a closer glance these appear to be *ONLY* for the class Cs I can see at a glance - ACY, RIC, ORF, ISP, etc. Yeah, and I think it's one of the dumb things about sectionals. Each Class B has it's own terminal area chart, and that's where you'll find the frequencies for NY TRACON. I wish they put them on the sectional too, but they don't. As someone else mentioned, though, there are indeed approach frequencies given by radials from I assume the on-field VOR in the side tab, which is of course seems to be always folded in the most inaccessible place when I am in the cockpit. The table that lists the frequencies will tell you how the sector boundaries are defined. For New York, it's radials off the LaGuardia VOR. |
|
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
(sorta OT) Free Ham Radio Course | RST Engineering | Home Built | 51 | January 24th 05 08:05 PM |
Good panel mount COM radio and intercom w/push-to-talk? | John Huebbe | Home Built | 10 | November 27th 04 07:58 PM |
1944 Aerial War Comes to Life in Radio Play | Otis Willie | Military Aviation | 0 | March 25th 04 10:57 PM |
Radio silence, Market Garden and death at Arnhem | ArtKramr | Military Aviation | 4 | February 12th 04 12:05 AM |
Ham Radio In The Airplane | Cy Galley | Owning | 23 | July 8th 03 03:30 AM |