![]() ![]() You’ll fly the ILS or LOC Rwy 20 at Bremerton via the transition from SEA to WUMOX. Stage your climb as you would normally and get established northeast-bound toward SEA. ![]() No matter what nav you use, those winds will hurl you eastward towards CARRO and your filed route. The ODP isn’t direct CARRO it’s an intercept and then CARRO. Maintain 5000…” So how will you set that up in the GPS? Textual ODPs like this won’t appear in the database. When you get your clearance from FSS over your cellphone, it’s simply “…cleared as filed. Assume you filed “KSHN SEA KPWT” and you added, “Will fly the KSHN ODP” in your remarks. GPS users can load the route, but think this through. You might need them more than you think for getting going the right way or staying on the black line while you switch up approaches. Even if you use GPS, get those VOR frequencies set. Tip: You’ll also want the Bremerton ILS in standby for your primary navigator and SEA in the standby of your second nav. VOR users will want these frequencies and radials dialed up. CARRO is defined by SEA R-230 and R-346 from the Olympia VOR (OLM). You’ll depart from Sanderson’s Runway 23 following the obstacle departure procedure, which calls for a climbing left turn to intercept R-230 from the Seattle VOR (SEA) inbound to the CARRO intersection. ![]() Thicken this brew by setting the surface winds 250 at 20 gusting 28, and winds at 4000 feet blowing 230 at 35. Set it for broken clouds from 600 MSL up to 5000 feet or so, and visibility one mile in rain. It might always be sunny in Philadelphia, but the weather is always rotten in the sim. Olympia, WA (KOLM) is your alternate-which you’ll need. The instrument route takes 83 miles of zig-zag, and therein lies the challenge. The destination of Bremerton, WA (KPWT) is only 22 miles as the crow flies, but only because the crow flies VFR. The flight starts at Sanderson Field in Shelton, WA (KSHN). Either way, serious situational awareness is the key, so let’s chair-fly it before powering up the simulator. It should keep you moving even if you do. It’s a twist-fest if you don’t have a GPS. Hitting fixes is what this challenge is all about. That technique has been rendered both unnecessary and verboten by RNAV and regulation respectively, but skills in intercepting fixes and radials are still required for IFR aplomb. ![]() This was back when we taught instrument students how to eyeball a course “direct” to a fix defined by two VOR radials. We could go direct to airway fixes and watch the little black pixels approach just as the CDI needles swung to center. Brick-shaped and nearly brick-sized, it’s etch-a-sketch screen was a still a revelation. The first GPS I used in the air was a Garmin 95 portable. ![]()
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