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Larry Dighera wrote:

Currently, VFR pilots are prevented from navigating over the top of
KLAX without a VFR chart and VOR receiver without violating
regulations.

How? I've never flown in or seen a chart for the area, but doesn't the
class B have a vertical boundry over which one needs naught but an xponder?

- Andrew

On Sun, 17 Apr 2005 15:48:00 -0400, Andrew Gideon
wrote in ne.com::

Larry Dighera wrote:

Currently, VFR pilots are prevented from navigating over the top of
KLAX without a VFR chart and VOR receiver without violating
regulations.

How? I've never flown in or seen a chart for the area, but doesn't the
class B have a vertical boundry over which one needs naught but an xponder?

- Andrew


Yes. You are correct. I should have been more specific.

KLAX has a Special Flight Rules Corridor through the Class B airspace
at 3,500' and 4,500' that only requires squawking 1201 and . Part of
the requirements for use are tracking the SMO VOR 132 degree radial
and having a current VFR Terminal chart in the aircraft. The other
charted transition routs also require use of VOR radials. Although
the Shoreline transition does not; although charted, it has been
effectively rescinded.

So, yes, it is operating above the 10,000' ceiling of the KLAX Class B
airspace without tracking a radial is within regulations.