Panama theater NavAids and nav. charts
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Hi guys.
As I was promised to you, finally the Hotfix with corrections and updates for nice Panama theater is ready. Let’s see what’s included:A) Corrections of airports with issue:
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1. Las Tablas Strip: the aircraft explodes over runway, fixed.
2. Punta Cocos Strip: the aircraft explodes over runway, fixed.
3. Tole airport: the aircraft explodes over runway, fixed.
4. Wannukandi airport: runways 32 L/R not leveled, fixed.After that, all airports are fully working and usable!
B) Corrections of airports names:
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1. Bocas Del Toro renamed to correct Bocas Del Toro Intl.
2. Chitre renamed to correct Cap Alonso Valderrama.
3. Cpt Manuel Nino renamed to correct Cap Manuel Nino Intl.
4. La Palma renamed to correct Cap Ramon Xatruch.
5. Rio Hato renamed to correct Cap Scarlet Martinez.
6. La Plantacion Strip renamed to correct Filipinas Strip.
7. La Candeleria renamed to correct La Candelaria.
8. La Joya Nr 1 renamed to correct La Joya.
9. Mamitupo Regional Strip renamed to correct Mamitupo Strip.
10. Marcos Gelabert Intl renamed to correct Marcos A. Gelabert Intl.
11. La Palma South Strip renamed to correct Miraflores Strip.
12. Howard AFB renamed to correct Panama Pacifico.C) Created from scratch the NavAids with data based to real world and also the NavAids list, so to it’s possible with them to do navigation inside Panama theater. Below you can see a sample of NavAids list for Panama theater:
D) As a bonus, created 2 IAP charts for Bocas Del Toro Intl and Tocumen Intl airports, to landing on them with real procedures and to help Falcon pilots to land with safe especially in PvP missions. Below you can see a sample of IAP chart for Tocumen Intl airport:
Be sure to read the useful infos about the execution of the procedures from “MAIP Panama theater.pdf” file, they will make your life easier with real procedures.
Installation instructions included in the rar file.WARNING: All these updates with some more great improvements are included in the new version (2.0A) of Panama theater here: https://www.benchmarksims.org/forum/showthread.php?14029-WIP-Panama-Theater-Beta-2-0A-for-BMS-4
Prefer to get this version in order to have all the latest updates in one file!Special thanks to my friend Malcolm “Malc” for his hard and nice work with Panama theater and for his permission to make the corrections/updates.
For any advice or possible corrections for this Hotfix of Panama theater, please contact me “neystratiou” at Benchmarksims forum or e-mail me at: [email protected]I hope to like and to enjoy this work.
Have a nice time in Panama theater with great navigation and safe landings ;)!
With my best regards,
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Well done Nikos! Great job. I hope that Panama one day will be a new theater for BMS. I can chip something in , but I need contact with toonces and/or Malc, or others who perhaps want to be involved. I wrote PMs to both, but so far no reply. I think we should communicate to coordinate and avoid misunderstandings and double work. Or … agree to do nothing.
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**** yeah!!! Thank you very much for your work my friend!!!
Thanks to your support to the BMS community Nikos!!!Donwloading!!!
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**** yeah!!! Thank you very much for your work my friend!!!
Thanks to your support to the BMS community Nikos!!!Donwloading!!!
Thank you my friend Javi.
Just please EMPTY your inbox!!!
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Well done Nikos! Great job. I hope that Panama one day will be a new theater for BMS. I can chip something in , but I need contact with toonces and/or Malc, or others who perhaps want to be involved. I wrote PMs to both, but so far no reply. I think we should communicate to coordinate and avoid misunderstandings and double work. Or … agree to do nothing.
Hi my friend.
Thank you for your kindly words mate.
About that you want to work in Panama theater, please “pm” me.
Malcolm “Malc” almost give me the clear to do whatever i can to improve his nice theater. So just tell me what you want/can do and i confirm with Malcolm the o.k.
It will be nice to give to this nice theater one improve again, by you this time my friend.
Thank you for your proposal.
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Well done man. Thank you
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Hi Nikos
- just sended you a PM back - everything is there, great !!!
Regards
Falcontower
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Very nice Nikos. Panama has taken another big step toward being a finished theatre.
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Awesome work, bro!
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Thank you neystratiou
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Nikos, Thank’s for your work once again.
Cheers,
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Thank you very much all of you guys for your kindly words!
I really hope to like my latest work for nice Panama theater.
Also be sure to read the useful infos about the execution of the procedures from “MAIP Panama theater.pdf” file (pages 3-5), they will make your life easier with real procedures and understand some things ;).
If you need any help about the execution of the procedures, feel free to ask me. My pleasure to help you.
See you soon at my next work :p.
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thank you NEYSTRATIOU!
have a cool beer now!
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Great job… Thank you Nikos…
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Great job… Thank you Nikos…
Copy that my friend Sotiri.
Just enjoy them ;)!
And if you need any help, any clarification about the execution of the procedures, just ask me. My pleasure to help you. But don’t forget to read from “MAIP Panama theater.pdf” file the pages 3-5.
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Hi Nikos,
will this theatre be included by the WPD as well ? Or is it all ready WIP ?
Guess, I had seen a post from Falcas - who ask if it should be.
Other Question:
TA in Korea –- 14.000
TA in Aegean —18.000
TA for Panama — ??.???regards
Falcontower
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Hi Nikos,
will this theatre be included by the WPD as well ? Or is it all ready WIP ?
Guess, I had seen a post from Falcas - who ask if it should be.
Other Question:
TA in Korea –- 14.000
TA in Aegean —18.000
TA for Panama — ??.???regards
Falcontower
Hi my good friend Reinhard.
Well about your questions, let me tell you these: 1st i already have sent a “pm” to Falcas and ask him to do that and that he has my permission for that. Also whatever support with data needs by me, i will provide him ;).
So now it’s up to Falcas if he has time to do it and he wants to. From me he is “good to go” :p.
About your 2nd question, we have from real life: each country has its own rules, that means that we have countries with one T.A. (Transition Altitude) for all airports in the country as also we have countries that have a specific T.A. for each airport.
Now after a check i can tell you:- For South Korea we have probably one T.A. for all airports and it is at 14,000 FT. I have checked from real charts the airports:
Incheon Intl (RKSI), Gimpo Intl (RKSS), Cheongju Intl (RKTU) and Pohang (RKTH). - For Greece and Turkey we have in sure different T.A. for each airport, e.g. in Greece Alexandros Papadiamandis (LGSK) in Skiathos island has 4,000 FT T.A. and Larissa airbase (LGLR) has 11,000 FT T.A.
In Turkey Corlu (LTBU) has 10,000 FT T.A. and Antalya (LTAI) has 15,000 FT T.A. - For Panama we have probably one T.A. for all airports and it is at 18,000 FT. Panama gives officially charts only for 6 airports and all of them has 18,000 FT T.A.
These airports are: Bocas Del Toro Intl (MPBO), Enrique Malek Intl (MPDA), Enrique Adolfo Jimenez (MPEJ), Marcos A. Gelabert Intl (MPMG), Panam Pacifico (MPPA) and Tocumen Intl (MPTO).
Also as you can see in my charts for Bocas Del Toro Intl (MPBO) and Tocumen Intl (MPTO) i give the real 18,000 FT T.A.
Bocas Del Toro Intl (MPBO):
Tocumen Intl (MPTO):
I think that it is clear now
See you my friend.
Nikos. - For South Korea we have probably one T.A. for all airports and it is at 14,000 FT. I have checked from real charts the airports:
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I tried the two approaches yesterday, and also tried the airports.
I first went for the Non precision approach at Bocas Del toro INTL on rwy 34.
As soon as i was in range for the VORTAC i switched my HSI mode to TACAN.
I intercepted the 304 radial inbound. Passing over the VORTAC at 3000 ft, 300 kts i made a left turn to intercept the 065 radial and strted slowing down to 230 kts.
At 4 dme, i watched my tracking of radial 065, and since it was a direct entry into the hold, the only thing i had to do was to wait for 8 dme and then do a left turn heading 245.
Since my airspeed was 230, to have a rate 1 turn, i made those calculations to have the right bank angle for a rate 1 turn.
(230/10)+7 = 30 degrees of bank.
So i look onto my attitude indicator, bank the plane so that i stay on the 30 degrees and turn in level until i have 245 on my HSI. Don’t forget to compenate for the wind effect in a hold. Wind was 178 at 13 kts. This means the wind is going to push you outside your holding pattern when inbound, and inside the holding pattern when outbound. So you have to apply a correction angle.
After two holding patterns, i kept going on my 065 radial until reaching 8 dme, and selected course 095 on my HSI, i like the 30 degrees.
Woorks fine with 300 kts at 37 degrees of bank angle ( 300/10)+7= 37.
Interception of the lead radial and turn right to intercept 331 and descent to the prescribed altitudes.
Since it s a non precision approach at the minimums, you will be a little bit offset to the right of the runway, i then turn a bit to the left and then again to the right to be aligned and did a touch and go.
Took-off again on runway heading, selected sterrpoint 3, entered gpd cordinates from Tocumen International.
At around 70 dme you can receive the VORTAC, again i went into TACAN mode on the HSI and turned the course selector until i got an TO indication and my course deviation indicator was centered, i was on radial 105 to the station. So i was coming in from the south- East.
Looking on the chart see that the radial i want to intercept is the 170, so that radial will be to my left.
I went for flying over the VORTAC and di a right turn at 230 kts with a rate 1 bank angle. I choose right because i wanted to be virtually outside the approach turns etc … and the wind was going to push my outside on a right turn, which is good here sinc i want space to be able to turn into my 170 radial.
I didn’t go for a hold, i went straight to 12 dme at 300 kts, did my turn to have a 14 dme arc interception, intercepted my lead radial, switched then to TCN/ILS on my HSI.
Turned my HSI course to 050 for visual references only ( well the Localizer and Glide slope are receiveable when you are in their cone of reception, it doesn’t matter if you HSI course is set to the one of the runway, you will still receive the signal, but it is easier for the pilot to have a visula reference of an heading, so he can see how much degrees left or right he is offset.)
Went down to the minumums, and landed that beauty. Beacon signal comes in at the right sport.
Note that on the approach chart, there is a scetch of the runway treshold lights and approach lights.
ALSF-1 indicates you that on this runway the ILS is only for CAT 1 approaches.
If you look on Bocas Del Toro INTL, you see ASLF-2 whci is for CAT 2 and 3 ILS approaches. So that means that our friend Nikos doing the charts here will certainly provide us with an ILS aproach too for Bicas Del Toro INTL
Only thing that is missing is the runway touch down zone markings, dependng on the type of approach conducted on a runway, there are specific markings and lightings on the runway. For example, on an ILS runway there should be on the centerline of the runway, a row on white lights. But i am sure this is WIP.
I really enjoyed those approaches, nice work Nikos
Coriolan.
