Christchurch
All charts for Christchurch (NZCH) are available from the VATNZ Website.
Recommended add-on scenery for Christchurch is listed here.
Christchurch (icao: NZCH; iata: CHC) is New Zealand's second largest airport and the primary arrival point for air travellers visiting the South Island. It is also the main forward base of operations for the flight programme to McMurdo Sound in Antarctica.
It has three runways: runway 02/20, a parallel grass runway 02/20 Grass, and the cross runway 11/29. As in real life, runway 02/20 receives the vast majority of traffic in the online world. Runway 11/29 is not used in heavy traffic situations due to a significant misalignment of that runway between the FS9 and FSX sceneries.
RNAV Arrivals
Runways 02 and 20 are equipped with ILS and all of the NZCH arrival procedures feed into these approaches. All STARs are now RNAV only. Pilots unable to fly the RNAV arrivals should indicate this in their flight plan, and inform controllers on initial contact in order to receive vectors to the ILS approach.
Flights from Sydney can expect to be assigned one of the BELEE or AVOCA arrivals depending on the active runway.
- Sydney → Runway 02:
BELEE FIVE ALFA (BELEE5A) or the AVOCA FIVE ALFA (AVOCA5A). - Sydney → Runway 20:
BELEE FIVE BRAVO (BELEE5B) or the AVOCA FIVE BRAVO (AVOCA5B).
Departures
Flights departing Christchurch for Sydney can expect to be assigned one of the following departures depending on the active runway.
- Runway 02 → Sydney:
BAVEM FIVE PAPA VANDA TRANSITION (BAVEM5P.VANDA). - Runway 20 → Sydney:
KADET FIVE QUEBEC VANDA TRANSITION (KADET5Q.VANDA).
Flights departing Christchurch for Gold Coast can expect to be assigned one of the following departures depending on the active runway.
- Runway 02 → Gold Coast:
BAVEM FIVE PAPA KABKA TRANSITION (BAVEM5P.KABKA). - Runway 20 → Gold Coast:
KADET FIVE QUEBEC KABKA TRANSITION (KADET5Q.KABKA).