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http://jeppesen.com/icharts/print?job-id=20160810031100258-12321

Does anyone know from this Jep chart why arrows from OMN VOR, BARBS, and ASTOR are pointing to MEGPE waypoints?

Steve.

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  1. Kris Kortokrax on Aug 10, 2016

    As a flight instructor, you should have an instrument rating.

    Everyone who has an instrument rating should know about transitions.

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  2. Steve on Aug 10, 2016

    Hey Kris!

    Have been away from instrument stuff for a while, did all my research and asked fellow IPs at school, unfortunately nobody had an answer for that. Yes instructors have instrument rating but we do not know everything. I posted this question here so that anybody who is knowledgeable like you could leave comment so I can learn it and do the research in different ways than I did before.

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    Russ Roslewski on Aug 10, 2016

    Steve, you have got to be kidding. Is this a real question?

    You seriously asked multiple CFIs at your school what one of the most basic parts of an instrument approach is, and none of them knew anything about transitions to an IAF?

    This isn’t some esoteric concept. These are on the vast majority of instrument approaches. Anyone with an instrument rating has flown these type of routes over and over again, and it is literally a major focus of instrument training. It’s the equivalent of a CFI not knowing what the mixture control is for. You might as well have asked “what’s that oval line there at MEGPE”?

    Valid questions for a beginning instrument student, but past that, come on now.

    You really asked multiple CFIs at your school and they didn’t know? Wow. That is shocking to the point of being absurd and unbelievable. Sounds like you need to find a new school.

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  4. Kris Kortokrax on Aug 10, 2016

    Careful Russ, you might damage his self esteem.

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  5. Steve on Aug 11, 2016

    oh, now my question is why transitions from those fixes only but other fixes/ way points on the airway or around the airport? why?

    That was my question, to be clear.

    I honestly never seen these chart before, but know what transition is.

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