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Tokyo Haneda Approach Control

RJTT / HND — Japan

Tokyo Haneda (RJTT / HND) is one of the real-world terminal areas you can control in the free ATC Radar Simulator. Its approach (APP) airspace — centred near 35°33.0'N 139°47.2'E in Japan — 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.

Tokyo Haneda is one of the most intensely used airports in the world, working four runways over Tokyo Bay under complex, noise-sensitive routings. The sheer density of movements over the bay makes precise, disciplined control indispensable.

Haneda’s four runways form a distinctive cross-hatch on reclaimed islands in Tokyo Bay, and the active combination changes with the wind and the hour — including approaches threaded over the bay to keep noise away from the city. It is one of the world’s busiest airports yet runs with legendary punctuality, sharing Tokyo’s skies with Narita through carefully divided arrival corridors.

Runways

Runways 16R, 34L, 16L, 34R, 04, 22, 05, 23 are 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: HMEAY

Standard arrivals (STARs)

Standard departures (SIDs)

The terminal airspace

• Transition level: FL60 — below it aircraft fly altitudes on the local QNH; at or above it they fly standard flight levels.
• Upper limit: FL130 — overflights cross the sector below this level.
• The terminal control area (TMA) extends roughly 60 NM around the field.
• Entry / exit fixes on the boundary: HMETUKBALAKESORIONOTAKICAVIAOCEANFUJYYAY

How to control Tokyo Haneda in the simulator

Haneda rewards configuration thinking: the crossing runway geometry means arrival and departure paths intersect, so sequencing is three-dimensional — level a departure under a crossing arrival, then climb it the moment the paths diverge. Smooth beats fast here.

Pick Tokyo Haneda 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.