Gochapita Airfield
 Gochapita overview | ||||||||||
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| Type | Public | |||||||||
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| City | Chagual, Pataz - Sierra de la Libertad, Peru | |||||||||
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| Scenery tile | w080s10 | |||||||||
| TerraSync | n.a. | |||||||||
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Gochapita Airfield is situated about 37nm from Chagual Airport. The approach is a little tricky because often there are clouds covering the airfield in dense mist.
Flying at Gochapita
Remarks
- RWY 11 Direction 107° unpaved
- RWY 29 Direction 287° unpaved
- RWY Dimension 830x18m/2.730x60ft
- Elevation 3.400m/11.155ft MSL
- Start-up position on the apron: Start
- TRU TRUJILLO 116.30MHz 079°/88.7nm
- BTE CHIMBOTE 112.50MHZ 031°/95.8nm
- MAR CAJAMARCA 300.00MHz 309°/63.6nm
- ATA ANTA-HUARAZ 415.00MHz 179°/92.8nm
ATC
FIR LIMA
- UTA 128.1, 128.8, 128.5 MHz Centro de Control de Área de Lima [above FL245]
- CTA 128.1, 128.8 MHZ Lima ACC [MEA until FL245]
- TMA 119.7 MHz Control de Aproximación
- ATZ 118.1 MHz Torre de Control
Nearby Airports
- SPGL Chagual Airport
- SPIS Pias Airport
- SPGC Gochapita Airfield
- SPAI Urpay Airfield
- SPJR Cajamarc Airport
- SPRU Trujillo Airport
High Altitude Operation
- Choose an aircraft wich allows a service ceiling more than 10.000 ft like the PC-6, B200 or AeroStar700
- Reduce the fuel to a minimum
- Reduce your load, every 10% under the gross weight increase the performance about 20%
- Choose flaps for take-off depending on the maximum deflection of the aileron. Not much more.
- Pre-lean your engine and give a bit of throttle to get the engine started
- Check your indicated airspeed again and again
Scenery
In TerraSync this airport not exist (status 01/2016). You have to download a custom scenery.
Scenery Add-on
A custom FGscenery_Chagual package is available for download. This Scenery add-on contains airport data, airport layouts, airport buildings and more which are not available via Terrasync. Note: to use the start-up positions in-sim, select your starting position via the [Location -> Select Airport] menu. Type in the name of the parking position, press enter (important!). Then select [Go To Airport].
Always get the newest development version automatically: Download the FGscenery_Chagual.zip
Features
- All airfields of the Province of Pataz included
- Sloped runways at all airfields
- Detailed, phototextured and handcolored 3D models of buildings
- fully Rembrandt compatible
- Challenging take-offs, approaches and cloud flying