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Old 29th July 2010 | 14:55
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ant1
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pilotsaab, in your case scenario you should be at the MEA or maybe a more favorable MORA when reaching the specified sector distance (most likely 25 nm) if not being radar vectored. If that MEA or MORA is higher than 9500 ft then you are in worse shape if what you want to do is to proceed directly outbound and do the reversal. The angle between your inbound feeder route and the outbound course will possibly prevent that course of action according to doc 8168. The approach will probably have either a DME arc or a racetrack overhead to lose altitude. Well there is always the divebomb technique

Another dilema arises when you are shown 9000 ft MSA and 90 MORA but the TL level is below. Do you make adjustments for altimeter setting?

And fianlly the famous discussion that has been around on pprune on whether the MSA is for emg use only like on FAAland.
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