Today sunday it’s a sunny day and it’s also a good opportunity to practice a little. My instructor gave me rendez vous to practice some exercices around Sion as we have no VIP today. It will be an interesting practice from what I saw from my instructions :
- Depart on a MEDAM SID and leave the SID as soon as you’re on FL180.
- Fly direct to GRANA into the holding, fly one hold and follow the IGS RWY 25 approach.
- Fly a go-around on the minimum and follow the standard missed approach procedure.
- Fly into the published holding and fly at least 2 holdings.
- Fly again an IGS 25 and then a circling for RWY 07.
- On the runway 07, make a touch-and-go and climb to FL180. Fly along the valley until you are above the mountains.
- Now ask for a visual approach on the active runway.
So let’s prepare my flight ! NO PAX, No cargo, the distance is short but from what my instructor asking me I suppose i will need some fuel and time and be more concentrate. Taxi and trip would brun around 2000kg of fuel, I will have 2 holding pattern on GRANA, 3 turns in total , a missed approach, a touch down and a VFR approach plus my reserve, I consider that 9000 Kg of fuel would be a good solution, I should burn between 4t/6t of fuel 2500/4000 Euros for this practice.
FLIGHTPLAN - IFR FP2743/SVW18T LX-MCO LSGG-LSGS ------------------------------------------------------------------- Geneva (Geneve Cointrin/Switzerland) to Sion (Sion/Switzerland) DEP: LSGG/22 INIT ALT: FL180 PAX: 0 ARR: LSGS/25 F/P DIST: 149 NM CARGO: 0 ZFW: 41324 TOW: 49779 ALTN: LIMW / LSGG TIME: 10/14/2018 14:05z --> 10/14/2018 15:05z ETE : 01:00 ------------------------------------------------------------------- FUEL CORR ENDUR NOTES CRUISE ........... 754 ........ --:-- TRIP ............. 1590 ........ 01:00 EXTRA ............ 4560 ........ 02:00 MIN T/O .......... 2000 ........ --:-- FINAL RESV ....... 6865 ........ --:-- RELEASE .......... 8455 ........ --:-- ------------------------------------------------------------------- ATC ROUTE: SID: (MEDA4A) MEDAM DCT GRANA STAR: () ------------------------------------------------------------------- WEATHER BRIEFING LSGG 141220Z 21005KT 150V270 CAVOK 21/11 Q1013 NOSIG LSGS 141220Z 07012KT 040V110 CAVOK 24/03 Q1014 LIMW 141220Z AUTO 11019KT 9999 SCT100 18/09 Q1019 LSGG 141220Z 21005KT 150V270 CAVOK 21/11 Q1013 NOSIG
Okay it’s middle of afternoon, sunny for now, the active runway on Sion is the 07, let’s enjoy this afternoon !
