Vnukovo RealOps

30.09.2017 14:00 - 20:00 UTC

Dear friends!

Here comes the end of the summer, together with our RealOps events series of this year. It all started a year ago in Simferopol airport, then moved to Moscow Sheremetyevo and Domodedovo, so the logical final for it is Vnukovo airport of Russia's capital. ATC controllers of Moscow ACC invite you to greet the last warm days of 2017 participating in our Vnukovo RealOps event!

With its more than 80 years history, Vnukovo used to be a military airfield, an airport for royal VIPs, and in the middle of XX century it became the major airport of Moscow, passing this role only in the late 80s. Nowadays Vnukovo is a modern passenger airport with a capacity of 25 mil passengers annually, being a hub for russian UTair and Rossiya airlines, as well as for the first russian low-cost airline Pobeda.

The airport has many difficulties, which are hard to handle with at times - even the experienced captains consider this airport to be complicated! Some of them are crossing runways, short glideslopes, limited by restricted areas, narrow approach and departure corridors, besides the fact that the Special Flight Squadron "Rossiya", performing the flights for numerous heads of state and dignitaries from around the world, is based here. This creates serious problems in flight operations, which we want you ou to feel during our event!

On the 30th of September from 14:00 up to 20:00 UTC we invite you to fly in and out of the most difficult airport of Moscow Area Center under full ATC coverage. We draw you attention that there are no flights of private aircraft in our booking, however we will be happy to see them in our skies! Get your charts ready and pour a spare tonn of fuel in your tank - the queus may reach dozens due to traffic congestion during single-runway ops. Radar coverage in neighbour FIRs is also provided, while the group of Moscow controllers will ensure you have a good mood and perfect ATC surveillance down to the gate.

During flight operations please stick to speed restrictions on departure and arrival routes, as well as the necessity of avoiding restricted areas as published in charts.

See you in the skies of Moscow ACC! May the autopilot be with you!

It's allowable to change aircraft types for the same class, e.g. Airbus A319/320/321 within the family or for Boeing 737 family.