Familiar Departure, Busted Altitude
AIN's Tales from the Flight Deck
English - December 18, 2018 16:58 - 26 minutes - 24.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsAviation Leisure aviationsafety aviation Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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After an unanticipated en route stop-over throws a curve to an experienced crew, they fall victim to an error of omission that could have been disastrous. Leaving Denver International Airport for their homeward leg, they trip up on what has become an alarmingly common problem: pilots not briefing for altitude restrictions on standard instrument departures, or SIDs. Fortunately, an alert controller catches the error in time to avoid an imminent traffic conflict. The Gulfstream pilot in this episode owned up to his mistake. This is a larger systemic problem than you might think, a team of aviation experts concurs.
Topics the episode will cover:
RNAV approach and departure procedures/SIDs & STARs Altitude restrictions "Climb/Descend Via" terminology