7DeltaLima
Well Known Member
Group: Wife and I were coming back from MSL (Muscle Shoals, Al) to MUT (Muscatine, IA) last Sunday. There was a strong, well defined line of thunderstorms in Southern IL that we were picking our way through (really love the XM Weather for cross country).
When we left MSL, I plugged in Direct MSL. Received my IFR clearance from Memphis, climbed to 8k and started watching the radar. We were on about as 340 heading. In Southern IL, we caught up with the line of thunderstorms. Asked for and received clearance to divert to 280 to go around one big cell. After we cleared the cell, I reported direct again to MUT. All's well.
The diversion west is now going to put us over the top of STL where the weather is not the best in the world. Understandably, the controllers modified my clearance to (won't get the correct phraseology) cross the Centralia 280 radial 20 miles from Centralia (ENL VOR) then direct MUT for weather avoidance (which I appreciated) and traffic (don't come over the top of Lambert today). I was south west of ENL when receiving this clearance.
I honestly butchered this procedure. I had no clue how to execute what they were asking for other than punch in direct ENL and turn direct MUT when within 20 miles of ENL. I'm in IMC for 45 minutes and glad I have the AP to help while I'm trying to figure this thing out. I definitely was not on the 280 radial being south west of ENL at the time. The controllers were very helpful and vectored me a couple times to get me where they wanted me but that's not acceptable to me.
I've played with the 430 training simulator some today to figure out what I should have done. I'll throw out my solution after hearing a couple from the stands
How/what would you have plugged into the 430? I'm sure I'm missing something very simple but I can't see a simple way of accomplishing the requirement.
I'm equipped with a single com (430) and the 430 for nav (gps-vor-ils) with a CDI.
(On a positive note, I've gotten about 2 hours of actual in the RV in the last month and a half. The RV-7A has been a good platform to work through the weather in. It's fast enough that you can divert and skirt around some areas and sound enough that you can punch through when you have too.)
Thanks in advance,
Doug
7A
When we left MSL, I plugged in Direct MSL. Received my IFR clearance from Memphis, climbed to 8k and started watching the radar. We were on about as 340 heading. In Southern IL, we caught up with the line of thunderstorms. Asked for and received clearance to divert to 280 to go around one big cell. After we cleared the cell, I reported direct again to MUT. All's well.
The diversion west is now going to put us over the top of STL where the weather is not the best in the world. Understandably, the controllers modified my clearance to (won't get the correct phraseology) cross the Centralia 280 radial 20 miles from Centralia (ENL VOR) then direct MUT for weather avoidance (which I appreciated) and traffic (don't come over the top of Lambert today). I was south west of ENL when receiving this clearance.
I honestly butchered this procedure. I had no clue how to execute what they were asking for other than punch in direct ENL and turn direct MUT when within 20 miles of ENL. I'm in IMC for 45 minutes and glad I have the AP to help while I'm trying to figure this thing out. I definitely was not on the 280 radial being south west of ENL at the time. The controllers were very helpful and vectored me a couple times to get me where they wanted me but that's not acceptable to me.
I've played with the 430 training simulator some today to figure out what I should have done. I'll throw out my solution after hearing a couple from the stands
How/what would you have plugged into the 430? I'm sure I'm missing something very simple but I can't see a simple way of accomplishing the requirement.
I'm equipped with a single com (430) and the 430 for nav (gps-vor-ils) with a CDI.
(On a positive note, I've gotten about 2 hours of actual in the RV in the last month and a half. The RV-7A has been a good platform to work through the weather in. It's fast enough that you can divert and skirt around some areas and sound enough that you can punch through when you have too.)
Thanks in advance,
Doug
7A