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Equipment Suffix Question

Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2018 7:09 am
by CaptainMD
Hello, I’m flying the 737 800 on PE. I beleive my equipment suffix is /L GNSS , Transponder mode C RVSM. When I asked for clearance for my flight plan, the controller said that I may not use an RNAV arrival STAR for my destination airport. This is where I get confused. Should I only be selecting STARS that do not have the RNAV accronyn and ONLY use the STARS that have ARR?

Than you in advance

Re: Equipment Suffix Question

Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2018 5:49 pm
by Tim Krajcar
/L aircraft can fly RNAV arrivals, so one of two things happened:

1) you didn't actually file as /L, or
2) the controller made a mistake.

Both are possible, but #2 seems a bit less likely :)

If you filed your flight plan via the website I can look at the logs and see what you filed, if you tell me what callsign you used.

Re: Equipment Suffix Question

Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2018 6:33 pm
by CaptainMD
Hi Tim,

I filed last night around 8 PM EST under AA 4458. Flight was from KPSP to KLAS Rwy26R.
My original STAR for KLAS was the KEPEC 6 RNAV Arrival. I was then switched to the CLARR3 arrival.
Thanks for looking into this for me. I’m really determined to understand the world of ATC.

Re: Equipment Suffix Question

Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2018 10:32 pm
by Tim Krajcar
It looks like you submitted a web flight plan for just the callsign '4458', then logged in with 'AAL4458' (the latter being correct). The contents of the flight plan don't matter in that case because they wouldn't have been shown to the controller, since you didn't login with a callsign that matched anything that had been filed. My guess is you called for clearance and the controller instructed you to re-file, and you did so from inside the client. Unfortunately I can't see what the equipment suffix you used from that in-client filing was, so the investigation ends there, but I think the learning value has been extracted either way :)