Victor 1

[mattaxelrod]

I was just looking at my IFR low altitude chart and was looking at V1 all the way down the eastern seaboard. There's a portion that sort of skirts the shore off of Georgia where the MEA goes way up to 11000. How come? Is it because the airway is over the water?

 

[Let'sgoflying!]

Probably the aerostat balloon

 

[Ed Guthrie]

Probably the aerostat balloon

If not that, the ceiling of an underlying MOA.

 

[poadeleted20]

I think it's for reception of one of the crossing radials defining an intersection.

 

[Ed Guthrie]

Well, it isn't an aerostat because the MOCA is significantly lower than the MEA. It isn't the underlying MOA because that MOA crosses to other airways and they each have much lower MEAs. I don't believe it is an intersection defining radial because the center point fix on the high MEA portions of the airwas is defined only by the intersection of the two airway radials. It is, however, probably due to the fact that the airway bend/intersection is 96 and 76 nm from the respective VORs that define the airway.

 

[Auburn_CFI]

I think it's for reception of one of the crossing radials defining an intersection.

I thought they usually just put in an MRA for this situation but did not make any changes to the MEA.