When the easyjet pilots head north over Kent, bound for Southend, they sometimes say they are heading for Ridley. I can't find a radio beacon listed there. Can anyone please tell me what they are refering to. Thanks
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Originally posted by kent-man View PostWhen the easyjet pilots head north over Kent, bound for Southend, they sometimes say they are heading for Ridley. I can't find a radio beacon listed there. Can anyone please tell me what they are refering to. Thanks
Having said that., I see RIDLY refers to EGLC (London City) - no mention of Southend. I wonder if that is the right RIDLY?
Hope that helps
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ridli.JPGLast edited by The Sage of Milton; 2013-07-31, 17:25.
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Originally posted by FR24support View PostRIDLY is a reporting point at 51.3852, 00.054, south west of SABER. It's not a VOR.
This may help:
http://www.reportingpoints.info/
How about the NATS Aeronautical Information Site for UK waypoints?
Welcome to the portal of the European AIS Database's (EAD) public access website, EAD Basic. EAD is a centralised reference database of quality-assured aeronautical information for airspace users. EAD Basic allows users to browse the database via the web - with instant access, anytime, anywhere. You can quickly and easily create ad-hoc Pre-flight Information Bulletins (PIB), generate standard aeronautical data reports and browse Aeronautical Information Publication (AIP) and chart publications.
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Originally posted by kent-man View PostWhen the easyjet pilots head north over Kent, bound for Southend, they sometimes say they are heading for Ridley. I can't find a radio beacon listed there. Can anyone please tell me what they are refering to. Thanks
RIDLY.jpg
RIDLY is roughly in the centre of the pic, north east of the Southend NDB radio beacon. DETLING that you mentioned is a VOR beacon south of the NDB and may be used in other approaches or departures (I'm in Australia so I am not familiar with that area). The 'racetrack' looking loop over Southend indicates where ATC will hold aircraft (if necessary) on approach but may be one of a number of points where they can do so. Pilots will hold there (at an altitude assigned to them by the controller) if instructed to until further instruction from ATC or get lucky and get a direct track in.
The charts can seem quite daunting at first but give a lot of detail not found elsewhere and I dont pretend to understand them all that well but they can be very interesting to check out. Each airport and runway will have a series of approaches or 'STARS' (similarly departures or 'SIDS') and the one used will depend on where aircraft are heading in from (or departing to) and the active runway (determined by the wind direction and strength) which is selected by ATC at the airport. You may also hear ATC tell a pilot to 'cancel the SID (or STAR) and track direct to... (waypoint such and such)' or 'track direct to xxxx thence flight planned route', so even though a pilot (or dispatcher in the case of large airlines) is required to file a flight plan before a flight and stick rigidly to it those plans can become quite flexible around the airport depending on circumstances such as local weather, aircraft spacing requirements etc but always under the direction of ATC.
Sorry but all this has been perhaps a convoluted way of saying that's probably why you heard the instruction to track under own navigation to 'RIDLY.'
Hope this is useful,
Regards,
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