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Unofficial Truckee, California Control Points

Contest: Region 11 Combined FAI Class, 2020

Courtesy of Sergio Colacevich
Dated: 16 May 2018
Magnetic Variation: 14.3E
Time zone: US/Pacific, Summer offset from GMT is -7:00 and in Winter it is -8:00.

Information about the contest is available at www.soartruckee.org/contests.html

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

Version 2020
See also the Truckee contest-points-only listing
Names:
  • The Name of each TP is somewhat constant. The number associated with each TP varies with each revision of this file
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    Elevations:
  • Most Elevations are rounded to nearest ten feet

    • Classification contained in name:
  • Last 3 characters of each TP is classification: -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 direction e.g. 14/32, N/S, 16/34
  • Length in hundreds e.g. 25=2500 ft, 30=3000 ft.
  • Type of runway surface e.g. H=Hard (concrete, asphalt), S=Soft or other (sod, dirt, gravel).
  • Radio frequency UNICOM e.g. 22.9=122.9 at private fields 22.7=122.7 UNICOM, etc ATIS OR AWOS weather e.g. WX24.5=124.5 Control Tower Freq e.g. CT18.7=118.7

    • Live ADS-B display of aircraft in the vicinity

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