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Old 12th February 2012 | 18:25
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Denti
 
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From: I wouldn't know.
Saab 2000 new? Its out of production for 10 years now. The 146 even longer. Both are basically gone in most of europe, nowadays its jungle jets or Q400s, the odd ATR inbetween. Most of those have a full FMS and are of course completely PRNAV aproved.

Anyway, while vectors are common, transitions are widely used now as well. And some airports use quite a lot of their STARs as well. As mad_jock says many scandinavian airports use STARs and only very rarely use vectors. Even though major german airports do not use STARs they do use transitions, which have usually two opposite directions which are pretty closely spaced, oh VIE does as well. Was quite surprised on my first approach to gothenburg to get nearly 80NM out a clearance for SID and ILS, next was the frequency change to tower and a landing clearance there. Very quiet approach, but worked very nice.
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