Visual circuits for Medium sized acft.

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Visual circuits for Medium sized acft.

Postby snippyfsxer » Sat May 21, 2011 12:37 pm

If I'm flying a light plane, I will do visual circuits at 1000 feet, with a distance of about 1 mile on the downwind leg.
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Re: Visual circuits for Medium sized acft.

Postby -Crossfire- » Sat May 21, 2011 12:44 pm

Flying the King Air in the real world, I try to keep downwind's about 3 miles from the runway, and turn base as to set me up on about a 3-4 mile final.  1000 feet AGL is what we use for the circuit, try using 1500 feet AGL at night until you're established on slope.

Flying a heavy aircraft in the sim, I would keep it a lot further out than 2 miles... that seems pretty tight.
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Re: Visual circuits for Medium sized acft.

Postby snippyfsxer » Sat May 21, 2011 12:51 pm

[quote]Flying the King Air in the real world, I try to keep downwind's about 3 miles from the runway, and turn base as to set me up on about a 3-4 mile final.
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Re: Visual circuits for Medium sized acft.

Postby Brett_Henderson » Sat May 21, 2011 4:40 pm

[quote](Flight Sim has a way of making me feel very stupid.
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Re: Visual circuits for Medium sized acft.

Postby snippyfsxer » Sun May 22, 2011 12:53 am

That is well said.
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Re: Visual circuits for Medium sized acft.

Postby snippyfsxer » Sun May 22, 2011 5:16 pm

Crossfire:

Here is what I figured out with the PMDG diagram regarding the 2 mile/ 1500 feet / 2 mile final thing...

If you configure the Queen as per the diagram, her correct manuevering speed will be about 160 knots (flaps 20) when abeam of the threshold.
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Re: Visual circuits for Medium sized acft.

Postby C » Sun Jun 05, 2011 2:41 pm

Flying a heavy aircraft in the sim, I would keep it a lot further out than 2 miles... that seems pretty tight.


Depends what shaped circuits you are doing - ie, whether you have a continuous final(s) turn, or put in a base leg. Depending on wind, then 2-3 miles wouldn't be unreasonable in a relatively heavy aeroplane doing a continuous final turn. :)
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