Nicely explained morno!
I'm assuming that is QLD's procedure, where did it originate?
This I assume is only good if the AD you are attempting to land at has terrain flat ALL the way round & not hills round most of it.
Hey there Wally, obviously this aint gonna work in 100% of scenarios, but you can either continue the glide to say 3nm:3000' or follow the arc in a direction (anti-clockwise is the SOP) that allows an approach from the most favourable direction. In any case the 6:1 profile is already reasonably steep.
As for a return to the field: with a properly executed departure and appropriate adjustments to your climb speed, a return to the field would be available in the majority of instances (howling gales excepted) for almost all of your climb. This is no doubt one of the reasons that our SOPs here use a higher T.O. minima, which conincidentally is well above the 700' that morno speaks of.
When you are filling the GPS with airfields do you give any options, eg night rated strips with lighting?
Yes this is done, database size permitting. Some simply have a runway direction, others PCL etc. The downside is that this uses up memory that could be other strips that one might want in times of need.
Any way you deal with it, Murphy is still going make your life entertaining at times!
