Flew the BUBIN 5A in rush-hour last night & it was a non-event.
The days of shortcuts and direct routings are over......sorry.
Twaddle, we got good shortcuts approaching BUBIN and then a huge shortcut from ALNET to UKRIM, knocked almost 10 minutes off the plan.
The requirement to cross GIRMI at or below 13,000' and then have another 25 miles to DB423 where you need to be at or above 8,000' requires a slow dribble down at a couple of hundred feet per minute but it's not uncomfortable.
The downwind is pretty tight, close in, only 4 miles but it worked well.
Thanks to ATC for trying to make our lives easier.
