@jstnj said in Correct Overhead approach pattern when you are entering from wrong direction?:
would be cool if BMS included basic AIRAC data so that we could use IAFs like that…would make pattern entry a lot more immersive and possibly make it easier for AI traffic too. Only thing it would be harder on is the BMS dev team
As stated before, page 22 of nav-comm manual give you the entry points for visual approaches used by the ATC and can be used by human pilots also. As real life.
SID’s and STAR’s, are all instrument procedures, not applicable for visual patterns, as well as IAF, which is a specific point of an instrument approach.
So the correct way of doing the visual pattern is to proceed to the correct visual entry point, and join the initial for the rwy in use. For example Kunsan AB (there is a visual chart on the Korea AIP folder), if you are coming from north, and Rwy36 is in use, you either should join entry point E, or entry S, avoiding the overhead pattern area (let’s say 6 nm to the west).
Cheers
MRO