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Old 10-21-2009 | 08:36 AM
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Originally Posted by MoonFallsDown
some airports has this kind of approach and arrivals...i have had this problem with going in and out of Sanford International in Orlando FL where they have an unpublished arrival and dep.

since i am not sure about the procedure at SFB ATCs down here are more than welcome to help you out... usually pilots who fly out of that airport knows know about it than visitors.

The Sanford one was a signatory departure/arrival put into place after the airport went to class C airspace. It was to ease the transition for tower and Orlando Approach with all the VFR dep and arr for the flight schools. It essentially kept clearance del. from having to issue a discreet squack just so you could depart airspace. It did help out in the begining. When it first was derived, you had to have your school sign a letter stating request to use it hence the name (signatory dep./arr. ), but they used to always ask if you were familiar with it, they never forced it on a transitory pilot, to my knowledge like what sounds like they were trying to do in NJ, to that pilot.
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