Mountains to Mud Pools Event - Sunday 30th March

[Mark Richards]

Mountains to Mud Pools

 

Starting at 1900 NZDT / 0600 UTC on Sunday, 30th March 2008 VATNZ’s next event will take place.

 

Depending on your VATSIM PID you will travel from:

 

VATSIM ID ending in 0, 2, 4, 6 or 8

Queenstown to Rotorua with a stopover in Christchurch or Wellington

 

VATSIM ID ending 1, 3, 5 ,7 or 9

Rotorua to Queenstown with a stopover in Wellington or Christchurch

 

The preferred routings are:

 

Queenstown - Wellington

DCT SH H438 BELEE Y566 CC V393 WN DCT

 

Queenstown - Christchurch

DCT SH H291 CH DCT

 

Wellington - Rotorua

DCT WN H364 PP H467 FOXTN H313 AP H310 DCT RO(FL170 and above)

Or

DCT WN H364 PP H467 FOXTN H313 OH H182 ARETI H116 AP H310 RO DCT

 

Christchurch - Rotorua

DCT CH V393 CC H426 TY H467 FOXTN H313 AP H310 RO DCT (FL170 and above)

Or

DCT CH V393 CC H426 TY H467 FOXTN H313 OH H182 ARETI H116 AP H310 RO DCT

 

Rotorua - Wellington

DCT RO H310 PM V241 WN DCT (FL160 and above)

Or

DCT RO H364 PM V241 WN DCT

 

Rotorua - Christchurch

DCT RO H310 PM H325 FY Y693 MESIX H159 CH DCT (FL160 and above)

Or

DCT RO H247 TM H438 NS V288 YW H309 CH DCT (FL240 and above)

Or

DCT RO H247 TM H438 ALADA V492 YW H309 CH DCT

 

Wellington - Queenstown

DCT WN V306 SABDA Y621 MESIX H159 CH H291 SH DCT (FL160 and above)

 

Christchurch - Queenstown

DCT CH H476 ANOLA DCT GULOV H291 SH DCT

 

Charts:

 

As always, all charts can be found at VATNZ Airspace Reference Page

Suggested Aircraft:

 

Dash 8-300Q

ATR-72

Boeing 737-300

 

However you may fly what every you wish, just remember Rotorua/Queenstown are small airports with Queenstown having a lot of terrain to deal with.

ATC Positions required include:

 

NZCH-S_CTR

NZCH-N_CTR

NZCH-W_CTR

NZCH-A_CTR

 

NZRO_TWR

NZQN_TWR

NZCH_TWR

NZWN_TWR

 

If enough interest from Controllers is shown, we will also look at NZCH_APP and NZWN_APP.

 

For ATC, please email [email protected] with your 3 top’s positions and a roster will be posted the week of the event.

 

Please remember if you are a pilot to book your flights in vRoute. It’s amazing how much traffic pre-booked flights can attract.

 

Look forward to see you in the skies on March 30th!

 

Cheers