Christchurch
All charts for Christchurch (NZCH) are available from VATNZ.
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.
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.
KABIN
Flights arriving via KABIN (eg: from Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, Sydney) can expect to be assigned one of the MOLGI arrivals depending on the active runway.
- KABIN → Runway 02:
MOLGI FOUR ALFA (MOLGI4A) - KABIN → Runway 20:
MOLGI SIX BRAVO KABKA TRANSITION (MOLGI6B)
All of these arrivals cross over the Southern Alps, the most mountainous section of the entire Oceania region, and there are a series of descent steps specified as part of the arrivals (see the charts above). Aircraft on these arrivals should descend to the ATC cleared level via the published steps.
Departures
KABIN
Flights departing Christchurch via KABIN (eg: to Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, Sydney) can expect to be assigned one of the following departures depending on the active runway.
- Runway 02 → KABIN:
BAVEM SIX PAPA KABIN TRANSITION (BAVEM6P.KABIN) - Runway 20 → KABIN:
KADET SIX QUEBEC KABIN TRANSITION (KADET6Q.KABIN)