Aeronautical Study of Port Macquarie - Civil Aviation Safety Authority

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4.2.2 Instrument Approach confliction
Figure 10 depicts the confliction between instrument approaches at PMQ and
TRE.
Figure 10 - Approximation of the TRE & PMQ RNAV Approaches
Aircraft using the PMQ RNAV RWY 03 approach and other aircraft using the
TRE RNAV RWY 22 approach can come into lateral conflict with each other.
Stakeholders reported that these two instrument approaches are sometimes
required to be used at the same time period during scheduled PT arrivals at
both TRE and PMQ.
IFR aircraft conducting these instrument approaches receive a traffic
information service from ATS on other IFR traffic and any known VFR aircraft
in the area.
The pilots are also required to broadcast their positions and intentions to
allow other aircraft in the CTAF area to determine appropriate separation,
particularly during these instrument approaches. In this regard it is important
that TRE and PMQ are on the same CTAF frequency.
4.2.3 VFR tracks
In addition to aircraft operating within the circuit areas of aerodromes within
the PMQ/TRE CTAF area, VFR tracking to and from these aerodromes is
essentially in directions as required by the pilot. When flying training was
previously occurring at high levels at PMQ, VFR flights were often tracking
Airspace Review of Port Macquarie (YPMQ) May 2010 Version 1.0