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SID and STAR charts
25.10.2004
Submission:
We have some uncertainty regarding the naming of (conventional) SIDs and STARs. Hopefully you or your readers can be of assistance.
The background is that we want to start the naming of procedures at Johannesburg Int'l (FAJS) from scratch in order to associate a departure/arrival with a specific runway. This means:
RWY03 departures will be "A",
RWY 21 will be "B" and
STARs for 03 will be "C" and
RWY21 will be "D".
The question now is (for example): you have a departure off 21 currently called the ELAND 6A, (due to gradient changes found to be necessary to cross the CTR at 8000FT ALT, this procedure will [normally] become the ELAND 7A. To change this to a "B" we have two arguments:
1./ It becomes the ELAND 7B
2./ It becomes the ELAND 1B
(There has never been a ELAND 1,2,3,4,5,6B) Which one is correct? As you will appreciate we do not want to provide anything that will cause confusion!
Gerhard Coetzee (Flight procedure specialist) South Africa
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