Comments on: Preparing Guernsey Approach

By: Flying Bournemouth to Guernsey - The Perfect Plan | Plastic Pilot

Flying Bournemouth to Guernsey - The Perfect Plan | Plastic Pilot — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 12:54:31 +0000

[...] unfolded exactly… as planned. We flew the route that I described in previous post, and the approach to Guernsey went fine. Both flight plans (Bournemouth to Guernsey and Guernsey to Waltham with a leaving) were accepted [...]

By: PlasticPilot

PlasticPilot — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:16:44 +0000

Sylvia, I’ll keep you posted about the local language. Any notes are welcome.

By: sylvia

sylvia — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:46:33 +0000

You must tell me if you can understand the local French! I dragged out my notes from my flight to Guernsey which might make you laugh.

By: PlasticPilot

PlasticPilot — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:53:49 +0000

Hi Julien, thank you for that good point.

I did not flew it in the sim yet, but I’ll probably do that later on. This is particularly good to find out the hot spots, and get a better idea how the approach looks like. However, this one is rather simple, so I don’t expect any difficulty.

For complex approaches, like in Cannes (LFMD) where three different navaids must be used, or for complex departures, a good simulator preparation is definetly an advantage.

By: Julien

Julien — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 02:59:19 +0000

Hi Plastic,

Did you already fly the approach in the flight simulator at home? Do you find that helpful in general?

Cheers,
Julien.