This Sunday our SNO (Sunday Night Operations) is heading to Invercargill, NZ's southernmost city and the home airport of our new C-Cat Instructor Rated Pilot and VATNZ Training Director - Leon Gibbs.
With ATC booked all evening from Wellington to Southland, the challenge is there to pilots to keep the skies busy. In the real world Air NZ flies the ATR72 into NZNV, but feel free to fly whatever strikes your fancy. Pilots of jets should have time to do a return trip, complete with stops in Christchurch.
- Departure Time: Sunday 4th May 2008 19:00 NZST (07:00 UTC)
- Flight Time: 45 mins - 2 hours / sector
- Flight Plan Route:
NZNV / NZCH: NV H221 CH
NZCH / NZNV: CH H343 IDARA Y877 UKETA H147 NV
NZNV / NZWN: NV H221 CH V393 WN
NZWN / NZNV: (FL160 and above) WN V306 SABDA Y621 MESIX H159 CH H343 IDARA Y877 UKETA H147 NV
NZWN / NZNV: (12000ft and below) WN H159 CH H343 IDARA Y877 UKETA H147 NV
NZCH / NZWN: CH V393 WN
NZWN / NZCH:(12000ft and below) WN H159 CH
NZWN / NZCH:(FL160 and above) WN V306 SABDA Y621 MESIX H159 CH
Pilots, book your planned flight schedule in vRoute to let everyone know how busy the skies over New Zealand will be.
- Potential ATC Positions:
NZNV_TWR - Invercargill Tower
NZWN_TWR - Wellington Tower
NZCH_TWR - Christchurch Tower
NZWN_APP - Wellington Control
NZCH_APP - Christchurch Control
NZCH-W_CTR - Christchurch Control
NZCH-N_CTR - Christchurch Control
NZCH-S_CTR - Christchurch Control
Note: If you're providing ATC on the night, please give priority to these positions. They are not an exclusive list, but they are the ones that will see the most action this Sunday.
To reserve a particular ATC position, please post a message to that effect (including the times you expect to be online) in this thread. And also book your position using vRoute - large numbers of bookings in vRoute attract additional traffic.
* Charts/Airspace Info: Available from the VATNZ Airspace Reference site.
For more information, and to ask questions, see the original thread at the VATNZ website.