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On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 22:28:01 GMT, Mikael K wrote:
> Marcel Kuijper wrote:
>> Well SB3 wants us to enter a cruise-alt in ASL.
>
> Hmm.. Well.. Does that tell how much attention I did put into reading what
> the description was...??
> Kinda have red ears now..
Don't feel bad, dude. It happens to all of us at some point.
>> GA or airliner?
>
> For now, GA... Still flying around in Danish airspace, getting the hang of
> the ATC.
Danish Airspace, huh? What's that like?
Do you find it difficult dealing with the change of accents when you're
flying from country to country?
> Trying to get used to the procedures of requesting clearance for the
> flightplan, for the startup and pushback, for the taxi, for the departure...
> And then the reading back of issued vectors or taxi-ways, or wind and
> QNH-info.. Or.. just to "read" those spoken informations... Wonder how many
> times I have responded: "Didn't copy that. Please say again. Oscar Yankee -
> Mike Kilo Oscar"...
)
I can imagine....especially when it concerns longs lists of taxiways to
travel over. Even with the sim ATC I need it repeated sometimes so I can
write it down. Since a few weeks now I've been practicing this procedure,
purposely not using the "progressive taxi" option the sim has.
Bill Leaming once mentioned that he got just about the longest list of
taxiways when he was at KDEN and had to taxi from one end of the airport to
the other in order to get to the active runway.
That's my biggest fear! And that's how RL pilots sometimes get lost too!
> I must admit, that "my" ATC also have issued me FL80 (8000 feet), but I just
> assumed it was for an easy readout of my assigned altitude...
> Had previously done some reading, and thought that FL120 was the lowest
> FlightLevel issued (transition layer).. Below, it would be spoken in
> feets... Maybe that was just valid for American flight-rules...
> But as David Wilson pointed out in another post, we (the European) obviously
> use FL to much lower altitudes..
Yes sir...it seems we need to know that information before we even file the
flightplan. This is a different kind of simming altogether. THIS is "as
real as it gets". I now fully understand that we need to *think* we're real
pilots in order to pull off a simple VFR flight.
> I just keep learning.. ;o)
We all do, Mikael.
> As to your question in another post, about what altitude to issue in your
> flightplan, I just "pick" an altitude that fits my GA and my length of
> flight.
That's how I'm going to be doing it too....but the correct altimeter
setting is more important now than ever before. The first couple of flights
I'll need to take my time setting up a flight so I have everything right.
> Also I use the FS Commander (shareware) to make flightplans, and in this you
> get to select for what kind of IFR you want to make a plan for.
> Navaids, low airways or high airways... And based on your input and
> aircrafts specs, it suggest an appropriate flight-level to the generated
> fligtplan.
I have FSNavigator and FSBuild, but I won't be using them for the first few
VFR flights. I want to see if I can do this without using either of them.
> Still, I don't know if it takes headings into considerations of flightlevels
> as to the "semicircular rule".. Maybe I will look after that when doing my
> next flightplan..
I don't think FSNavigator does, but FSBuild just might. I haven't really
noticed, to be honest.
David made a good point though....before planning your flight, have a look
on the right side of the Vatsim.net site and look up the rules of the
region you'll be flying in. You'll get info on transition altitudes,
transition layers, courses and headings to fly, charts and much more.
There's more help in there than I ever imagined.
Thanks for the great tips!
--
Marcel
(That's no moon...it's a space station!)
Just Joking
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