Are transitions still used in Germany?

[Robert Fersch]

I was browsing /vatsim-germany.org  and could not find charts for the transitions.  I looked at EDDF and EDDM and found none.  They used to be available.    Where can I find them?

 

Regards, Bob

[Tobias Dammers]

These two airports have had large-scale overhauls of their arrival procedures in recent AIRACs. The procedures that used to be called "transitions" are now published as "GPS/RNAV ARRIVAL CHART / TRANSITION TO FINAL APPROACH (OVERLAY TO STANDARD RADAR VECTORING PATTERN)", like this one: https://aip.dfs.de/basicIFR/scripts/getPage.php?part=AD&id=40749FD23E58E92F12F6F945F20D7399&title=AD 2 EDDM 3-1-1

I don't know why they're not on vatsim-germany, but DFS publishes them, and you should be able to find your way from https://aip.dfs.de/basicIFR/ to find whichever charts you need.

[Koen Meier]

in Frankfurt they are called RNAV stars and they will take you all the way in to the base leg where they will turn you in when required.

[Robert Fersch]

Thank you for that information.  Now I know where to find the transitions! 

[Lukas Stein]

transitions are used mainly for events.

 

[Andreas Fuchs]

1 hour ago, Lukas Stein said:

transitions are used mainly for events.

They get assigned by standard, but most likely pilots will be vectored off them at an early-stage to shorten their way to final approach. During events you can expect to follow transitions for a bit longer.