American Airlines Virtual

The FAA recently rolled out a new phraseology in 7110.65V known as "climb via SID". The "climb via SID" phraseology is a verbal clearance to the pilot to navigate both laterally and vertically according to the SID while complying with any published restrictions. When given a "climb via SID" instruction, the pilot is expected to climb according to the restrictions and maintain the published top altitude, if the top altitude is not specified the pilot will maintain the assigned altitude given.

Here is a brief overview of the procedure, please read (and watch) the following resources for other examples and more in depth info.

https://www.faasafety.gov/files/notices ... ia_FAQ.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrPzv96VBp8
http://www.nbaa.org/ops/cns/pbn/climb-v ... r_1_00.pdf

I hope this helps our Vatsim pilots.

Excellent. Is VATSIM following the ruling? Most of us whom frequent VATSIM and fly are able to comply with that.
About time.
I encourage all to watch the video for FAA RNAV. very instructive.

Thanks for the notice Barry.

Here are the links.
I tried to edit my post but it didn't work.
https://www.faasafety.gov/files/notices ... ia_FAQ.pdf
http://www.nbaa.org/ops/cns/pbn/climb-v ... r_1_00.pdf

Hope these work.

Thanks Barry for the info.

Thanks for this Barry. When can we expect VATSIM to implement this phraseology?

Climb via, descend via, do this except via, let see how confused we can make you via, as we are figuring out our fancy new procedures. That's the way it seems out on the real world side right now with these procedures. In theory they should do 99% of the work and minimize radio chatter but we are not there yet. Actually in the past month it's been getting a bit better but almost every clearance we receive still modifies the procedure in some way, shape or form. Honestly as great as these next generation departures and arrivals claim to be....none as of yet is a efficient as the O'Hare radar vector DP. You can have 20+ planes on an ORD dep freq and it seems like a ghost town compared to 10 planes on a dep freq handling a sector with climb via sid's.

In the end, once they get their ducks in fancy rows the next Gen procedures will be pretty slick but for the time being it's a bit like watching blind squirrels search for acorns