Embarrassed to say many years on and off and still Navigraph makes no sense to me.
Trying yet again to create the most simple flight plan this time from EGLL to EHAM. Nothing fancy or complicated and just choosing the top options that Navigraph offers for runways, departure, approach arrival.
And this is what it gave me, how on earth this even flyable for an approach to runway 06L?
This is called a “hold in lieu of procedure turn” in the US, I am not sure what EASA calls it. It’s one of the standardized ways to perform what is called a “course reversal”.
You enter the hold using the appropriate entry maneuver (coming from SUGOL, it looks like it would be a “parallel entry” procedure although I am not 100% sure), once established in the hold (right turns) you’d arrive over SPL on the 282 radial and when instructed by ATC, would continue to AM101 an on to the rest of the approach.
IRL I imagine you could get the hold when it’s busy and would otherwise get radar vectors directly onto the final approach course.
If you’re flying on your own without ATC, it would probably be more convenient to select the SUGOL 1A night transition instead of the regular SUGOL transition (as the name indicates, IRL this would mostly be used at night for noise abatement purposes), although knowing/learning how to do a HILPT could always come in handy in the future.
Regards,
Tim
P.S. if you are lazy or in a hurry, your FMS will probably compute the right entry procedure for the hold automatically anyway.
Would you be kind enough to draw me a flight path line on top of my screen shot so I can visualise how you see a plane following what you suggested to line up for the runway?
Here’s another one.. London Heathrow to Banjul international in Gambia.
I deliberately chose this airport to reduce the number of options and keep things as simple as possible.
Only two runways and nine approaches. What could be simpler.
I select runway 14. And then I choose the first choice offered by Navigraph.
I am then given this madness.
