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Old 7th Jan 2009, 20:30
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zube
 
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Mike.

05 takes you over land. You must mean 23.

The SID calls for runway track to the first waypoint, about 5 DME would be right. ( I don't have the chart in front of me now.)

At any time ATC can cancel SID and instruct you to turn onto a radar heading. Could this be what you saw?
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