Very informative! Just a "gee whiz/FYI" tidbit for pilots who regularly fly IFR in Center/Enroute airspace and request "VECTORS" for an RNAV approach, it's highly unlikely you'll get them and instead you'll just be sent direct an IAF or T-fix. The reason being, our airspace is so big and we have dozens, sometimes even hundreds of airports in a single sector, all with a handful of instrument approaches. In order to vector you to a specific fix or final approach course, we would be required to depict that on the scope and with so many airports and approaches, that would be so much clutter, we literally wouldn't be able to see anything else. "SOMETIMES" controllers who aren't busy will offer a vector past the IAF (we can put a digital marker around where one specific IAF is) and then clear you back to it for the approach but this is workload dependent and many controllers are hesitant to do it and may just have you do the procedure turn instead. Anyway, hope this helps for anyone who was ever wondering why they get vectors in a terminal environment but not enroute. We're not lazy or unfamiliar, we just don't depict the final approach course for anything other than ILS's (and not even all ILS's at that) therefore we're not legally allowed to vector you onto something we can't see. Happy flying!
John, enjoy your videos. Just a quick point - If the autopilot supports GPSS mode, it will follow curved paths for the hold (or procedure turns). Otherwise, the autopilot will have trouble intercepting a course of greater than 15 or 20 degrees off course.
Just my pennies. I(if possible) add the extra fuel for a second attempt approach then add the legal reserve fuel. I then if possible go full of fuel. Make note of takeoff time and add my BINGO fuel time on the clock. Cheers.
Very informative! Just a "gee whiz/FYI" tidbit for pilots who regularly fly IFR in Center/Enroute airspace and request "VECTORS" for an RNAV approach, it's highly unlikely you'll get them and instead you'll just be sent direct an IAF or T-fix. The reason being, our airspace is so big and we have dozens, sometimes even hundreds of airports in a single sector, all with a handful of instrument approaches. In order to vector you to a specific fix or final approach course, we would be required to depict that on the scope and with so many airports and approaches, that would be so much clutter, we literally wouldn't be able to see anything else.
"SOMETIMES" controllers who aren't busy will offer a vector past the IAF (we can put a digital marker around where one specific IAF is) and then clear you back to it for the approach but this is workload dependent and many controllers are hesitant to do it and may just have you do the procedure turn instead.
Anyway, hope this helps for anyone who was ever wondering why they get vectors in a terminal environment but not enroute. We're not lazy or unfamiliar, we just don't depict the final approach course for anything other than ILS's (and not even all ILS's at that) therefore we're not legally allowed to vector you onto something we can't see. Happy flying!
John, enjoy your videos. Just a quick point - If the autopilot supports GPSS mode, it will follow curved paths for the hold (or procedure turns). Otherwise, the autopilot will have trouble intercepting a course of greater than 15 or 20 degrees off course.
Very nice. Can you please make one for PAVD rnw06 from JOH VOR?
Great presentation. Thanks
Glad it was helpful!
Is this Xplane or MSFS?
MSFS
Just my pennies. I(if possible) add the extra fuel for a second attempt approach then add the legal reserve fuel. I then if possible go full of fuel. Make note of takeoff time and add my BINGO fuel time on the clock. Cheers.
Great point!
Love it! Talk slower so we can understand what you are doing more easily.
You can adjust playback speed on the videos if you'd like to slow them down or speed them up ;)