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Old 19th Jan 2014, 08:49
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There is an additional salient point regarding familiarisation and terminal areas:

Two actually...

1. Ipad based Jepp subscriptions do not have terminal area charts per se, just a scalable enroute chart. The latter lacks many terminal area features.

2. The database of useable airports in the aircraft does not include Essendon, or airports like it, so they do not show up as airport symbols on the nav displays.

As such, a crew can be forgiven for mistaking a runway in the correct orientation and approximately correct position for their intended destination.

Hell I did the same thing once: I was aiming for New York but instead landed in someplace called NYaaaawk.
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