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Well, you are probably flying a 737 devoid of metric altimeter, and you probably never have flown a QFE approach in metric units... so you will suffer a little bit. I do not recommend the use of a calculator (fat fingers). As PNF, devote all your attention to altitudes, even if you force the PF to be somewhat "solo" for check lists and SOPs...
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Should you fly a charter or scheduled passenger flight, you are likely to land at Sheremetyevo or Domodedovo. If you fly an executive 737, likely that you will land at Vnukovo. That is where Vladimir (Putin) generally parks his plane.
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Hope you have the Jeppesen approach charts, they have convenient tables giving you conversions QFE metric to QNH feet. At times, a few checkpoints or beacons are NOT published on the Jepps... but it is a rare occurence.
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All Russian beacons are quite powerful, so you can select these radio aids on the ADF early during the approach. They probably will not assign you a "rate of climb/descent" in m/s (meters per second) but if it happens,
1 (one) m/s climb or descent = 200 feet/min. However, you will get the wind speed in m/s.
1 (one) m/s = 2 knots approximately. Airplane speeds, 100 kts = 185 kph (they assign speeds in kph).
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Expect being vectored early during your descent, towards the airport, to the active runway. The final vector to intercept the ILS is
likely to be a 90º intercept, and they will NOT tell you to turn to the localizer and will not tell you that you are cleared for the approach (it is implied).
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Russian runways are very rough. Since you have a 737, touch down a few feet to the left or right of centerline. The touchdown zone is generally very rough (where all the other planes land). Expect a "follow me" vehicule to show you the way, as soon as you turn off the runway (wait for it, if need be) all the way to your parking spot or gate. Same for your departure, they will send a "follow me" showing you the way to taxi for departure to the active runway.
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To be nice to ATC, you can learn to say the following in Russian -
"Doh-brah-yeh oo-trah" (good morning) -
"Doh-bree dyenn" (good afternoon) -
"Doh-bree vett-sherr" (good evening) -
"Spas-see-bah" (thank you) -
"Dos-vee-dah-nyah" (goodbye) -
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Happy contrails