Originally Posted by
dojetdriver
If you're XJT, it's still on the flightops section if you want to look at it. All 15 or so pages.
It was terribly asinine, especially when departing to the south. There would have been NOTHING wrong with just tracking the LOC into that giant, wide valley. As opposed to that non standard/complex climb, level off, start a X degree bank turn, intercept a radial inbound, fly outbound on another radial, join a radial off another navaid, turn around and go back.
The special two engine missed was messed up as well. The mantra from the headshed is "ATC is aware of out special DP's/SMAP's". Sorry NO THEY ARE NOT!!!! If you ever went around in RNO for wind shear you know what I mean.
QRO and SLW don't have crap on how hard XJT made that whole ordeal. SFO and LAS were a bit of a PITA as well.
Yep... XJT. I didn't know we still had it available online. I used to avoid Reno for that very reason. Half of the 50 minute flight was spent briefing that disaster waiting to happen. I remember doing it in the sim back in '07 for a PC. It had the potential to be a ball buster if you weren't careful. Did a go around once or twice due to W/S out there. Fun times.
That, and the arguments we'd have with tower about departing while tracking the BC vs. flying runway heading (I guess we weren't allowed to depart without tracking the BC as per the -7).
Ya know, as much as I complain about RNO... my worst day of flying Branded was still a million times better than my best day in the CoEx system.
