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Benghazi Approach Control

HLLB / BEN — Libya

Benghazi (HLLB / BEN) is one of the real-world terminal areas you can control in the free ATC Radar Simulator. Its approach (APP) airspace — centred near 32°5.8'N 20°16.2'E in Libya — 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.

Benina International serves Benghazi, Libya’s second city, from a site on the plain about 20 km east of the city centre, below the escarpment of the Jebel Akhdar. Two long parallel runways, 15L/33R and 15R/33L, carry domestic links to Tripoli and regional routes across the Mediterranean and the Middle East.

Every airway in eastern Libya converges on the BNA VOR beside the field, so Benina’s traffic arrives along straight spokes from points about 65 to 105 NM out — RZAAM and REDFI from Europe to the north, MKILY from Egypt to the east, ARADA and BOURI from the south and west. With the wind usually off the Mediterranean to the north-west, the field works on runway 33R, flying the ILS straight in over the plain.

Runways

Runway 33R 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: BNA
NDB: ZUELAB

Standard arrivals (STARs)

Standard departures (SIDs)

The terminal airspace

• Field elevation: 433 ft above sea level.
• Transition level: FL60 — below it aircraft fly altitudes on the local QNH; at or above it they fly standard flight levels.
• Upper limit: FL195 — overflights cross the sector below this level.
• The terminal control area (TMA) extends roughly 112 NM around the field.
• Entry / exit fixes on the boundary: BNAZUELABRZAAMREDFIMKILYARADABOURIALDABALYAMRAMLI

How to control Benghazi in the simulator

Benina is a wide-open approach: long straight-in arrivals with plenty of room, so the real skill is descent planning — start arrivals down early from 100 NM out, and keep overflights separated vertically, because the airways all cross directly over the field. It is a calm place to practise clean straight-in sequencing.

Pick Benghazi 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.