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IFR Clearance and Startup Before requesting enroute clearance, make sure you have listened to the latest ATIS information. You can expect to receive your startup clearance together with your enroute clearance. Datalink: Pilots able to use PDC/DCL may also re...

Parking Position Airliners use Apron 2. Parking positions 18 to 27 are available for aircraft up to 36 m wingspan. Aircraft with a wingspan between 36 and 52 m need to use parking positions 18A or 19A. Aircraft with a wingspan greater than 52 m park parallel ...

Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden is not equipped to handle A380 aircraft. To maintain realism and prevent inconveniences for controllers and other pilots, we ask pilots to choose a different airport when flying the A380. Approach Primary ILS approaches are used. Only r...

General The Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden CTR extends from ground level to 2500 ft MSL. VFR traffic can be conducted in English or in German. Aircraft with an MTOW greater than 5,700 kg in the east traffic pattern need to fly at a minimum pattern altitude of 2000 f...

Complete EDUU (1 controller) EDUU_WUR_CTR is the only station that will cover the whole EDUU sector. No other station will cover the whole EDUU airspace. This also means, if there is an ongoing split between two or more controllers and the EDUU_WUR_CTR di...

Charts You can find current IFR charts for Düsseldorf on chartfox (requires VATSIM login). You can find current VFR charts for Düsseldorf in the AIP VFR.For a better overview over the airspace structure around Düsseldorf, we recommend openflightmaps. Scener...

vSID is a Euroscope plugin and is intended to support the controller in the initial data maintenance of outbounds. The focus is on assigning the correct departure runway and the appropriate SID including initial climb. A variety of criteria are automatically t...

All stations at Düsseldorf require a Tier 1 endorsement (mentoring session necessary). DEL and GND positions require the EDDL_GNDDEL endorsement which can be acquired by all controllers with an S1 rating or higher. TWR requires the EDDL_TWR endorsement which c...

Düsseldorf Ground is responsible for all ground movements at the airport and can be split into east and west ground. If more than one ground is staffed, Delivery needs to be staffed first. All ground frequencies shall always be coupled by the ground controlle...

Düsseldorf Delivery is responsible for enroute and startup clearances for all departing IFR aircraft. VFR aircraft, except Police Helicopters, which call Tower directly, have to call Delivery for departure information. Startup: Startup will normally be given ...

Düsseldorf Approach is primarily responsible for all arrivals and departures at Düsseldorf Airport EDDL and Mönchengladbach Airport EDLN. If sector Bottrop (BOT) is not staffed separately, its tasks are also taken over by Arrival, which means that arrivals and...

Runway allocation Outbound 13 operation: All outbounds with WTC Light and Medium are assigned runway 13R for departure. The 1863 m runway should be sufficient for most outbounds. If the pilot reports unable, he will be assigned runway 13L like all Heavies. A...

Düsseldorf Tower is responsible for the runway system and traffic within the Düsseldorf CTR. Runway Usage Düsseldorf Aerodrome has 2 main operating modes: Single Runway Operations: During single runway operations, the southern runway is used for all depart...

The area around Cologne is divided into four sub-sectors. In addition to the Approach and Arrival stations, sector NOR handles the lower airspace west and above Cologne up to Maastricht/Rhein Radar. NOR is the primary station and covers all other Sectors top-...

At Frankfurt de-icing is done around 50% at the parking position and 50% remote on the deicing pads. All outbounds should request remote deicing if required prior startup! Depending on the aircraft type (3/4 engine or A388) and departure runway (25C), remote d...

Airport layout Cologne-Bonn airport has three crossing runways. airport layout The airport has two passenger terminals. Terminal 1 with its two distinctive stars accommodates aprons A, B and C, and Terminal 2 with the apron area D.  Apron areas The cargo ...

vATIS profiles are available for each of the vatger FIRs. Installation vATIS can be downloaded from the project website. The latest configuration profiles are available here: Langen (EDGG) München (EDMM) Bremen (EDWW) The profiles can be saved anywhe...

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