dublinpilot
30th Jul 2005, 13:20
While doing some flight planning for an upcoming French trip, I came across two areas in my gps database marked as prohibited. However, neither are shown on my current 500K, nor my 1M charts.
Both areas are close to Nantes airport.
See graphic below pointing them out.
http://homepage.eircom.net/~dublinpilot/Nantes2.jpg
The circle is noted in the gps database as “Prohibited (LFP)M47 Torpille Class P Surface-000900AGL”
The square is noted in the gps database as “Prohibited (LFP)M65 Nantes Class P Surface-001500AGL”
As I said, these aren’t shown on my charts, nor are the listed as temporarily inactive areas in the SIA guide, nor can I find any reference to them in the French AIP. I’ve also looked at the VFR approach charts for close by airports (from the AIP), and they are not shown on them either.
Does anyone know if they still exist, or are they simply old data or an error, in the database? Or am I simply looking in the wrong place for them?
Someone else where suggested that they may be prohibited to military traffic, but not civil (hence the "M" part of the code), but I've no reference to check this out.
Anyone have any thoughts?
dp
Both areas are close to Nantes airport.
See graphic below pointing them out.
http://homepage.eircom.net/~dublinpilot/Nantes2.jpg
The circle is noted in the gps database as “Prohibited (LFP)M47 Torpille Class P Surface-000900AGL”
The square is noted in the gps database as “Prohibited (LFP)M65 Nantes Class P Surface-001500AGL”
As I said, these aren’t shown on my charts, nor are the listed as temporarily inactive areas in the SIA guide, nor can I find any reference to them in the French AIP. I’ve also looked at the VFR approach charts for close by airports (from the AIP), and they are not shown on them either.
Does anyone know if they still exist, or are they simply old data or an error, in the database? Or am I simply looking in the wrong place for them?
Someone else where suggested that they may be prohibited to military traffic, but not civil (hence the "M" part of the code), but I've no reference to check this out.
Anyone have any thoughts?
dp