IFR - Resume own navigation

[dallas]

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When flying an IFR flight plan and ATC tells you to "turn right heading 57,
resume own navigation":

Does that mean turn to 57° and stay on 57° until I tell you to do something
else?

Or, turn to 57°until you intersect your flight plan vector, then turn and
fly your flight plan as filed?

Assuming it means "fly your flight plan as filed", does that mean "fly your
flight plan as you filed it unless we call and tell you to do something else
for the rest of your entire flight"?

Dallas

 

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Dallas <Cybnorm@spam_me_not.Hotmail.Com> wrote:

> Or, turn to 57°until you intersect your flight plan vector, then turn and
> fly your flight plan as filed?

Normally, when ATC gives you a heading and tells you to resume own
navigation, they are giving you a vector that more or less will put you
direct to your first waypoint of your flight plan.

The vector may not be a perfect vector because ATC might not have the wind
correct right. Thus, you fly their heading until you are able to use your
on-board navigation to determine the heading you actually need get you to
your first waypoint of your flight plan. No matter when that is (be it
seconds or minutes after the ATC instruction), you can then begin flying
the heading you need to account for winds to get you to your first
waypoint, and then the rest of your flight plan.

If ATC had wanted you to intercept a nearby airway first, you would have
heard something like this: "Fly heading 070 to intercept Victor 143, then
resume own navigation." In this case, you fly 070 until your onboard
navigation determines that you are about to intercept the airway, then you
turn in the direction that will put you on the airway and on your way to
your waypoint.

If ATC needs you to deviate from your flight plan after giving you the
"resume own navigation," they can do so at any time by calling you again
with the new instruction or a complete reroute. It is common in the
Northeast US to receive a reroute while en route flying your filed flight
plan.

And one other point: Real ATC, at least in the US, only give headings in 5
degree increments.

--
Peter













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[dallas]

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Thanks Peter....


(I love this group

Dallas

 

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To even give a simpler explanation here is what it means.

I left airport CYXE on an IFR flight to KLAX and the departure controller
tells you to turn right to 225. That will put you on the intercept course to
your vector. (IE 195) once you are close enough to your vector he will them
tell you to turn again to head 195 resume own navigation. That means it is
up to you to say on course and fly in the direction of your course. Once I
hear the ATC to tell me to resume own navigation, I switch the NAV/GPS
switch to GPS and the flip the Auto pilot switch from heading to NAV. This
tells the auto pilot to not follow the heading you have set the heading bug
to, but the GPS heading. If you were doing VOR navigation you would set the
VOR, leave the switch to NAV (on the NAV/GPS switch) and then switch the AP
to NAV.

I hope this make since.

73's

Joe
VE5JL
http://www.ve5jl.com

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"Dallas" <Cybnorm@spam_me_not.Hotmail.Com> wrote in message
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> Thanks Peter....
>
>
> (I love this group
>
> Dallas
>
>

 

[dallas]

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"VE5JL"
> I hope this make since.

No, but it makes cents... ;-)

Thanks.

Of course the ATC in the sim will kill ya...

Sometimes they give you a heading and tell you to resume own navigation with
a vector that will never get you there.

Or... last night I filed a perfect flight plan from Maui to Hawaii using
intersections and low altitude airways. FS9 ATC trashed my flight plan and
vectored me towards the volcano under IMC conditions. I only cleared the
mountain by 400 feet.

It felt like the controller was out to get me.

Yeah, Trent... I know... VATSIM!


Dallas