April 18, 201115 yr If I check notams for Departure airport will ATC give me headings to fly according to that airports departure procedures for that runway?If I check notams for Arrival airport will ATC give me headings to fly that will keep me from crashing into a mountain. It was clearly gonna let me crash into a mountain when I flew to Seattle today
April 18, 201115 yr NOTAMS places RC ATC in an advisory capacity and lets you deviate from ATC commands without ATC warning or correcting you. This applies to both arrivals and departures. Vectors where appropriate are still given.For departures if the first waypoint is within 30 nm or you check altitude restrictions or no altitude restrictions on the Controller page than RC assumes you are flying a published procedure and expects you to navigate on your own for just past the 30 nm departure boundary and will not issue vectors. For arrival unless you choose an IAP procedure RC will give you vectors that you must adhere to. Again selecting NOTAMS allows you to deviate from ATC as stated above.NOTAMS does not relieve you of meeting the arrival crossing restriction altitude or missing waypoints submitted.Remember whenever RC tells you to resume your own navigation that you are expected to go to the next waypoint directly from your present position and not return to your original flight path. The next waypoint and heading expected are in the status area of the in flight RC window.RC calculates MSA (minimum safe altitude) based on an average from its data at a certain radius distance from the destination as one value surrounding it. When approaching airports in difficult terrain it is recommended that you follow STARS (DPs or SIDs for departure) confining yourself to those mapped routes. They can take you around terrain obstacles.For the FAA territories I get my charts from the free resources tab at flightaware.com. Just enter the ICAO in the lower left area and click information. Then choose the IFR tab. I choose to download the full bundled procedure pack in one .pdf file.Be sure the STAR or SID waypoints are in the plan RC gets.Here's the KSEA link;http://flightaware.com/resources/airport/KSEA/proceduresOne caution to watch out for is that these charts are current. Use the navaid frequency data that RC suggests which is derived from your scenery if there is a conflict as that is what your aircraft instruments will use to function. Most will match the charts. In addition RC uses a fixed communication table so use RC's comm frequencies, not the charts.
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