Originally Posted by
Dick Smith
Car. With your route I bet the frequency changes are similar! Have you checked?
Similar, yes.
Amount of changes? Less
Checked, yes. Did you?
It also avoids flying through the circuit areas at Camden and Goulburn.
Further away in general from approaches to both of those fields too. Especially Camden. 1500ft at the oaks with someone coming down the RNAV into Camden who could be bombing it down to 2000ft (the segment MSA) as the Yanks (if you want to copy "the best) like their dive n drive approaches, yeah I don't think that's a great place to be.
Further to this, under your NAS you'd still be on those CTAFs as you are within the "approach or departure" area, unless you define that differently to me.
However, as some food for thought "massive 40nm CTAFs" or not, do you think it might be a good idea to listen out anyway? For just a minute let's say there's no 20nm radius, your 15 or 25miles away. You now have a serious engine/pax/other issue and divert to that field. If you've been listening out your already tuned so one less thing to do, you've heard the traffic or lack of so you've got good situational awareness of what's happening there. Maybe beneficial or would you disagree?