Southend Night, Sunday 20 November, starting 1900z

[Chris Yates 814041]

Cross-post from the Vatsim-UK forum:

 

Essex-RTS will be holding a Southend Night on Sunday 20/11/05, beginning at 1900z to late. As usual, we will have some excellent ATC coverage available to you wonderful pilots!

 

Along with Cambridge, Southend is one of our airfields that is outside CAS, so we thought we'd invite you to come and join us somewhere other than Stansted and Luton, for a change! Runway length 1605m/5265ft so I guess 737s just fit Smile

 

For those of you who don't know where Southend is, it's located on the Thames Estuary. I'm led to believe that it is quite popular with drivers of Ford Cortinas with furry dice.

 

The following is cross-posted from the Essex-RTS forum, and contains the technical and procedural stuff.

 

 

Southend Advice from the man that knows...... (ie. Chris Yates!)

 

 

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Southend is out in uncontrolled airspace and so uses all the ATSOCAS (Air Traffic Services Outside Controlled Airspace - FIS/RIS/RAS the same as Cambridge does, as well as having primary radar only, as Cambridge does.

 

However, it does have VRPs nearby, like Stansted does. For inbound IFR, it shares the same STARs as London City (ALKIN around-the-houses STARs as I like to call them ) Also for outbound IFR it has SDRs (Standard Departure Routings), similar to Luton. Releases are required from LON_NE for these.

 

If you fancy having a read, going here is a good start:

 

http://www.flyfiles.co.uk/OTHERagree.htm

 

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Things are a bit different for IFR. As I say...

 

Inbounds: Come from NE via ALKIN STARs, ending at SPEAR or preferably on radar vectors/procedural approaches before that. I'm not too clued up on what procedural approaches are available at Southend to be honest, so if anyone is, please shout.

 

Outbounds: The SDRs, which the pilot should be ok with flying (I believe most are a basic turn straight to the VOR after noise abatement) and require a release from London.

 

The same sort of thing as far as ATSOCAS go though.

[Chris Yates 814041]

Just a bit of further information for those intending to come and give us a go.

 

VFR is simple - we're outside controlled airspace, but have VRPs for reference when inbound or outbound.

 

IFR outbounds don't follow SIDs, they follow SDRs (Stansted Departure Routings). See: http://www.flyfiles.co.uk/OTHERagree.htm Make the first waypoint in your flightplan, the VOR in the routing. E.g. BPK1, file DCT BPK. We'll clear you to depart the airfield on one of these route and then will hand you off to London who will deal with how you join the airway.

 

IFR inbounds follow the STARs for London City (EGLC). See: http://www.ais.org.uk/aes/pubs/aip/html/eglc.htm File one of these STARs and before you get to the end of it, London will point you towards us and hand you off.

 

When you get to us, there are a whole range of procedural approaches available to you to practice your skills - that's something Houslow Central down the road cannot offer you! See: http://www.ais.org.uk/aes/pubs/aip/html/egmc.htm

 

These nights are primarily aimed at both manning up these usually quiet fields and ensuring our own controllers are confident and have experience with our smaller airports - we're deserting Stansted and Luton for the evening!

 

Apologies for repeating things in places. I just felt the other information was aimed at ATC, rather than pilots.

 

Hope you can join us.

 

All the best, from the Essex team.

[Jason Hickey 928972]

Looks like i'd better start dragging G-CEAL (BAC Express Shorts 360) over to the cargo ramp from "storage corner" i hope she starts