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Kraków ATC Simulator

EPKK / KRK — Poland

Kraków (EPKK / KRK) is one of the real-world terminal areas you can control in the free ATC Radar Simulator. Its approach (APP) airspace — centred near 50°4.7'N 19°47.1'E in Poland — is modelled with real runways, radio navaids and instrument procedures. As the approach controller you sequence arriving traffic onto the ILS approach, launch departures on their standard instrument departures, and keep every flight safely separated on the radar.

Kraków John Paul II International Airport at Balice, about 11 km west of the city, is Poland’s second-busiest airport and the gateway to southern Poland and the Tatra mountains. It has a single runway, 07/25, with an ILS to 25, and the KAK VOR stands on the airfield itself.

Runway 25 has Kraków’s ILS and runway 07 an RNP approach. Arrivals come in from KUKAM in the north, MEBAN in the south, NETIR in the south-west, GOVRI in the east and ERKEB in the south-east, while departures leave towards BABKO, TUSIN, NAVUR, KOTEK, LUXAR and REGTO; the ground rises to the south towards the Tatras. Like the rest of Poland it uses a transition altitude of 6,500 ft.

Runways

Runway 25 is equipped with an ILS (Instrument Landing System) — a localizer for lateral guidance and a glideslope for the descent path down to the threshold. In the simulator you turn arrivals onto the extended centreline, clear them for the approach, and watch them capture the localizer and glideslope automatically.

Radio navaids

VOR/DME: KAK

Standard arrivals (STARs)

Standard departures (SIDs)

The terminal airspace

• Field elevation: 792 ft above sea level.
• Transition level: FL80 — below it aircraft fly altitudes on the local QNH; at or above it they fly standard flight levels.
• Upper limit: FL145 — overflights cross the sector below this level.
• The terminal control area (TMA) extends roughly 61 NM around the field.
• Entry / exit fixes on the boundary: KAKKUKAMKEVJOMEBANEMKUXNETIREFLUWGOVRIEKBECERKEBMODGUPACIWBABKOAXROF

How to control Kraków in the simulator

Kraków is a single-runway unit: one final, an ILS on 25 and an RNP approach the other way. With five entry points converging on KAK the job is spacing — fold the northern and southern flows into one even stream, and keep departures, which use the same runway, climbing clear of the arrivals.

Pick Kraków when you start a session, then double-click an aircraft's data block to assume it. Give it radar headings, climb or descend it to a level and control its speed to build an orderly stream toward the runway. Turn arrivals onto final, clear them for the ILS, and keep at least 3 NM and 1,000 ft between aircraft — the short-term conflict alert (STCA) warns you before a loss of separation. New to it? Read the guide to approach radar control and the ATC glossary first.