Positive Course Guidance (PCG) Question, Please Help

[Pilot_Keeter]

Greetings,
I have a question about PCG and where it is required/found at airports. What airports have Positive course guidance in their departure(s) and why?

Can you provide an example of an airport that has PCG in their ODP or Departure?

Thanks!

 

[dmccormack]

Welcome to POA!

http://www.faa.gov/about/office_org...icies_guidance/orders/media/8260.44A Chg1.pdf

 

[Pilot_Keeter]

thanks for the welcome. I don't really understand the document you posted.

 

[poadeleted20]

Perhaps a better explanation is found in the IPH, page 2-16:

Positive Course Guidance (PCG) - A continuous display of navigational data that enables an aircraft to be flown along a specific course line, e.g., radar vector, RNAV, groundbased NAVAID. PCG must be acquired within 10 NM for straight departures and within 5 NM for departures requiring turns.

For more details, read the section titled "Design Criteria" starting on page 2-14. As for examples, any DP involving specific courses (radials, bearings, GPS tracks) uses PCG. DP's involving only headings (e.g., "after takeoff, climb heading 250 to 2000 feet") do not. So, on the Cumberland MD (CBE) ODP:

Rwy 23, climbing left turn to intercept 177° course from CBE NDB to 3400 before proceeding on course.

...PCG begins upon intercepting the 177 bearing from the NDB.

 

[Pilot_Keeter]

Thanks!! This helps out a lot!