Hieronder de e-mail die ik van DUTCHVACC heb ontvangen voor de fly-in op 15/3.
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Routing is in ICAO format. Full waypoint lists cannot be provided here. For that information, please refer to enroute
charts, information in FsNavigator v4.0 or to the information given by your FMC. For more information on this,
please read below. Routes entered in the Squawbox flightplan shall be in the above mentioned format (so do not
enter a full waypoint list there! ;-) )
1. Introduction
A bit more than a week to go and the Dutch VACC will host the second edition of the Friday-Nite Fly-in held at
Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport. For the first time, we have worked with a registration system for pilots.
Schiphol Amsterdam is a major airport in Europe. We believe in it's capacity and in the fact that our virtual airport
is able to deal with the traffic that is expected. However, there are a couple of local ATC procedures and general
information that participants should be informed about. For this reason, you have received this email. Please take
some time to study the information contained in this document.
2. General "rules of the game"
When something is organised, there always need to be some rules in order to make sure that everyone knows what
to expect.
Pilots shall never:
- Pause Flight Simulator during the flight, unless prior permission from ATC has been obtained
- Disconnect immideately after landing, we expect you to be able to taxi to your assigned parking stand
- Climb higher than FL60 after departure unless clearance for a higher level is obtained from Schiphol APP/DEP
- Do unnessary reports to ATC. These are reports like "airborne" and "maintaining FL310". Remember that ATC
has you on the radar all the time. Only do position reports if really necessary. This is to avoid R/T load on RW.
- Connect to VATSIM when they are AT or NEAR the runway. Only connect at a parking stand.
Pilots shall always:
- Login on VATSIM with their ICAO ATC-callsign. The IATA flightnumbers are displayed for information pur-
poses only and are not used in ATC environment.
- Set their altimeters to 1013,2 HPa or 29.92 Inches when passing Transition Altitude 3000ft on departure
- Have approperiate charts, including SID/STAR/approach/airport/apron charts printed and ready at hand
- Fly holding patterns (if instructed by ATC) as they are published on STAR charts
- Reduce their speed to 250 IAS below FL100, unless cleared otherwise by ATC
- Comply with all local traffic regulations as described below
3. Local traffic procedures
IMPORTANT - Please study this paragraph very carefully!!! - IMPORTANT
Startup & Clearance procedures:
Airway clearances may be requested maximum 20 minutes before ETD. Airway clearances shall be requested
on the Schiphol Delivery frequency (EHAM_V_DEL; 121.970) and not on EHAM_S_DEL. A pilot requesting an
airway clearance does not need to be fully ready for startup already. After the readback of the enroute clearance
has been confirmed, expect a handover to Schiphol Startup Control (EHAM_S_DEL; 119.900). This controller may
be contacted when a pilot is fully ready for startup. Pilots may expect either startup clearance immideately or may
be put in a startup sequence, if the present traffic situation on the airport requires ATC to do so. Pilots are reminded
that only a "startup clearance" is given by Schiphol Startup Control and that this does not mean that a pilot is
cleared for push-back.
Pushback, taxi and other ground procedures:
After handoff from Startup Control, departing aircraft shall contact Schiphol Ground for the pushback clearance.
Pilots shall comply with standard pushback directions as indicated on the apron/ground charts. Taxi clearances
will be given based on these procedures. Pilots who are cleared for an alternative pushback shall carry out the
pushback to the opposite way as indicated on the Ground-charts.
Pilots shall always follow standard taxi routings as indicated on apron/ground charts. The A-taxiway is used for
traffic taxiing clockwise, the B-taxiway for traffic taxiing anti-clockwise. Only deviate from this system if instructed
by Schiphol Ground. Pilots are reminded that intersection take offs are commonly used to seperate traffic and
to prevent holding qeues blocking main taxiways. Intersection departures will be assigned and coordinated by
Schiphol Ground and Schiphol Tower.
Taxi instruction "via the south" means taxiing via taxiway "S" and the southern side of the airport. Taxi instruction
"via the north" means taxiing via A or B-taxiway (depending on the direction you taxi) parallel to runway 09/27 and
the northern part of the airport. Pilots shall still adhere to the above mentioned standard taxi routings.
Automatic handoff procedures
Arriving aircraft shall vacate the landing runway immideately and contact Schiphol Ground on 121.700 MHz. No
handover instruction from Schiphol Tower will be given.
Departing aircraft shall report passing 2000ft to Schiphol APP/DEP without handover instruction from the Tower.
Pilots shall select departure frequency depending on SID:
EHAM_W_APP 121.200 for BERGI, REFSO, SPIJKERBOOR, TEXEL, VALKO and VOLLA departures
EHAM_E_APP 119.050 for ANDIK, ARNEM, LEKKO, LOPIK and PAMPUS departures
When pilots do not see a EHAM_E_APP online, they shall contact EHAM_W_APP on 121.200, no matter what
SID they fly on.
4. Scenery recommendation
A very good freeware scenery of the Netherlands is made by the NL2000-Team. This scenery can be down-
loaded on
http://www.nl-2000.com
For optimised frame rates and best performance, set the overall scenery complexity to Dense in FS2000/02.
An additional (but unofficial) patch for some navigational problems can be downloaded here. It is recommended
to install this file, but only if v1.0 is used of NL2000.
5. Suggested routings
On top of this email, you have found your personal flight information, including a preferred routing as the Dutch VACC
would recommend to fly. Usually, these are the real life routings as flown by real carriers to/from Schiphol. Because
we expect a LOT of traffic, you understand that it is very important that we need to keep this traffic flow organised.
Routings are given in ICAO-format. This means that only initial and terminal waypoints are mentioned, and those
where you will switch from one airway to another airway. It is not allowed to fly outside airways during the whole
fly-in because we will not be able to organise traffic that way. We cannot guarantee that all recommended routings
are 100% up to date. If you have found any errors, please let us know.
For full waypoint lists, please refer to your enroute charts, your FMC or FsNavigator v4.0. It is recommended that
pilots install the latest AIRAC cycle for their respective FMC or flightplanner. They can be downloaded in all kinds
of formats on:
http://members.chello.at/richard.stefan/
6. Known technical issues
Schiphol is, in real life, located below sea level. Flying to this airport in Flight Simulator gives some problems when
using FSUIPC and SquawkBox. Pilots flying between 2000 and 3000ft may encounter sudden uncontrollable man-
ouvres of the aircraft and engine flameouts which causes their airplanes to crash. To prevent this from happening
during the fly-in, please change the option WINDTRANSITIONS to YES in FSUIPC.INI. This file can be found in the
\Modules\ directory of the place where you installed Flight Simulator. Pilots are also informed that, because of they
are below sea level, might not be visible to ATC at all circumstances when they are on the ground.
7. Charts and other documentation
Charts can be downloaded from the Dutch VACC website in the Downloads section. Pilots are advised that Schiphol
has a new taxiway designation system as from 13 July 2000. Charts from before that date can not be used anymore
since ATC will use the new system.
Pilots must download these charts and print the ones that are applicable for their flight. The Dutch VACC will also
simulate full Ground procedures so also the availability of detailed ground and apron charts is of great importance.
Flying SIDs and STARs is, due to the large number of expected aircraft, compulsory during the fly-in. Obviously
this is for traffic organisation reasons.
8. Voice usage & ATC Positions overview
During the fly-in, the following list of ATC positions will be online. All ATC controllers will be voice equipped. Pilots
are strongly requested to use Roger Wilco for all communication with ATC. Text is seen as a backup only during
the fly-in. Pilots unable to work with voice must inform ATC controllers on initial contact.
VATIM-code Frequency Callsign Purpose
EHAA_W_CTR 125.750 Amsterdam Radar Area Control Center West/South FIR
EHAA_E_CTR 124.870 Amsterdam Radar Area Control Center East/North FIR
EHAM_W_APP 121.200 Schiphol Approach/Departure APP/DEP west Schiphol TMA
EHAM_E_APP 119.050 Schiphol Approach/Departure APP/DEP east Schiphol TMA
EHAM_A_APP 118.400 Schiphol Arrival Radar vectoring to final approach track
EHAM_M_TWR 119.220 Schiphol Tower Tower control (the M for Main TWR freq)
EHAM_W_GND 121.700 Schiphol Ground Ground control
EHAM_V_DEL 121.970 Schiphol Delivery Clearance delivery
EHAM_S_DEL 119.900 Schiphol Startup Control Startup Control
9. Other suggestions and useful links
Since we are simulating a real operations night, pilots are kindly requested to plan their flights in such a way, that
the real arrival and departure times are closely adhered to. This also enables ATC to make a traffic planning.
The real Schiphol airport has an excellent website which includes actual information about the flight, including
aircraft type, aircraft registration and actual gate number. Departing pilots are encouraged to use this information
to position themselves on the apron. Of course this is optional, it is not compulsory to look this information up.
Arriving pilots will receive gate or stand information from Schiphol Ground after landing.
Useful links:
Dutch VACC website
Schiphol Airport website
ATC Procedures in the Netherlands
NavData homepage (AIRAC cycles for all common FMC's and flightplanners)
The Netherlands 2000 Scenery
Might you want to cancel or change your reservation, please let us know by email.
10. And finally.....
That's it guys! We hope we have not frightened some of you by the number of procedures mentioned in this
document. We hope you understand that this is necessary to prevent misunderstandings during the fly-in and
we are sure that you will enjoy the fly-in more if you understand what is going on.
If you have any questions, please contact our events staff by email on events@dutchvacc.com
Finally the whole Dutch VACC team wishes you a lot of fun during our fly-in and we are looking forward to see
all of you on Friday the 15 of March!!
Best regards,
The Dutch VACC Team
http://www.dutchvacc.com
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