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Old 2nd March 2009 | 08:52
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dwshimoda
 
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VP,

VP,

It's 18 months since I last did this route, but I still have my IFR plog with routes, frequencies, nav aids, etc. If you want it, you are welcome to it all, just drop me a PM.

My memory of this route is a bit faded, so if anyone else can correct my info, please do, but otherwise as I remember it:

The biggest "gotcha" on this route was the rway in use at EGNX changing during your planning / in-flight, (happened to me on my first IR test) and all the assosciated hassle of changing the plan & route. (Different NDB's, etc)

After leaving Cranfield it was straight to London for entry to the airways, a brief spell with Manchester, then EGNX. On the return, they are quite quick to get rid of you, but if I remember rightly you were within range of EGTC,and could go for a RIS (Don't forget it all changes after 12th of this month) before returning for a procedural approach.

I seem to remember they also kept me quite high quite late, so you need to think about your descent planning well in advance.

Good luck with it - of all the routes from EGTC when I did it, this had the double edged sword of giving you more time in the air to think & plan, but also get things a bit wrong!

DW.
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