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Unofficial Coordinates for the Williams Soaring Center, California Control Points



Courtesy of Peter J. Kelly ( pjkelly(at)sonic.net )
Dated: 03 April 2007
Magnetic Variation: -15.9
Time zone: US/Pacific, summer offset from GMT is -7:00 and in winter it is -8:00.

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The primary specification of the waypoint coordinates is degrees and decimal minutes


File Name/Version wsc07d
Names:
  • TP Names are alphabetical with WSC (the home base)listed first with a preceding numeral one
    Elevations:
  • Many Elevations are rounded.
    Classification of each TP is contained in the name:
  • Last 3 characters of each TP will be one of these three: -R = Runway on sectional, -E = Emergency Landing area, -U = Unlandable area
    Qualification:
  • After the letter is a qualification number: 1, 2, or 3 is good, 7, 8, or 9 is bad.
    Comments at end of line may include:
  • Runway size:
               Length in hundreds with H for Hard or S for Soft surface e.g. "20H" means 2000 ft hard surface
              Width in feet follows followed by a "W" e.g. "25Hx90W" 2500 long x 90 ft wide
              Width sometimes is the paved area othertimes estimates width containing 2 ft obstructions
              Type of runway surface H=Hard (concrete/ asphalt/paved) S=Soft (gravel sod or dirt)
  • Runway direction e.g. 14/32, N/S, 16/34
  • Radio frequency e.g. 22.9=122.9 or 22.7=122.7 UNICOM, ATIS, AWOS, ASOS, Aviation Weather e.g. AW24.5=124.5, Control Tower Freq e.g. CT18.7=118.7
    Landing Sites
  • Choice of landing sites is a pilot's personal responsibility.
  • A Landing Attribute "L" has been amended to a few of the control points that MAY have been landable in the past, but they may not be landable any longer. The only "A" attributes is at WSC.
  • Pilots must decide for themselves which control points may be landable for them, and then add or delete attributes as appropriate.

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