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Presented to:

By:

Federal AviationAdministrationPalomar Airspace

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Plus One Flyers

Kristin Grulke, Brandon Gonzales

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Power Plant

Batiquitos Lagoon

Lake San Marcos

Lake Hodges

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Oceanside Pier

Squires

Vista

Swami’s

Bonsall

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VFR Reporting Points/Entries

Inform controller if:– Unfamiliar with the area– Don’t understand the instructions

Rule of thumb: Report when you are ½ mile from the reporting point

Ex: If you are reporting directly over Squires, you are on a really close right base.

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Airport Procedures

• Before entering the Class D airspace, you must call Palomar Tower, and have them acknowledge you by your call sign.– If tower says “Stand-by” or “Roger,” you are not

cleared to enter the airspace.– VFR flight following from SoCal does not give you

clearance into the airspace.• After you exit the runway, taxi over the hold lines

onto the taxiway, hold position, and contact ground control.

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Local Area Hotspots

• Right 45 Entry– Due to traffic on downwind, turning downwind,

clouds• Right Base Entry

– Due to amount of right downwind departures• Straight in Entries from Escondido

– Due to extended centerline• Vista

– Due to amount of arrivals/departures • Departure Corridor

– IFR aircraft departing

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Local Area Hotspots

• If you are requesting a right downwind departure, to comply with VNAP, please let us know if your final destination is East or Southeast of the airport.

• Many pilots will depart right downwind, request a frequency change, and then fly right through our extended centerline/final (conflicting with inbound IFR aircraft).

• Technically, you are outside of our airspace, but be aware of your surroundings.

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Airport Hotspots

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Hold Short Read Backs

ATC needs to get a complete read back of runway “hold short” instructions

3 elements:

1) aircraft ID

2) the words “hold short”

3) the surface to be held short of

“Bugsmasher 38 Kilo,

hold short of runway 24”

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IFR Practice Missed Approach Procedures

• All of our practice missed approaches are pre-coordinated with SoCal, and are based on current weather conditions.– Depending on the cloud coverage, we’ll give you

your missed approach instructions IFR or VFR.– If we give you a VFR missed approach procedure,

and you want an IFR missed approach instead, PLEASE request this prior to a ONE MILE FINAL (this is only a request, and may not be granted, due to; traffic volume, workload, etc.)

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New Phraseology

Taxi Instructions:

“ACID, Runway 24, taxi via A.”

(Controllers may say this even if you are on the inner ramp, because eventually you will have to be on a portion of A to

get to the runway.)

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New Phraseology

Line Up and Wait (LUAW)

Arrival Phraseology

(no change)

“ACID, continue, traffic holding in position.”

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New Phraseology

LUAW - Departure Phraseology

“Runway 24, Line up and wait.”

“Runway 24, Line up and wait, traffic (type aircraft and position).”

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New Phraseology

• By adopting ICAO standard phraseology that is familiar to aircrews for whom English is not their primary language, the FAA hopes to mitigate the potential for runway incursions caused by misunderstanding and misapplication of instructions involving movement onto active runways.

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Reasons why controllers may not respond to your call immediately

• Making their plan – think, think, think faster• The controller never heard your initial call (you may

have been “stepped on”)• Multi tasking (cutting new ATIS, position relief, etc)• Coordinating with another facility

– FSS, SCT, ZLA, local airports

• Coordinating within their facility– Runway crossings, helicopter arrivals/departures,

emergencies, airport ops, etc.

• Training new controllers