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Jakarta Approach Control

WIII / CGK — Indonesia

Jakarta (WIII / CGK) is one of the real-world terminal areas you can control in the free ATC Radar Simulator. Its approach (APP) airspace — centred near 6°7.5'S 106°39.4'E in Indonesia — 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.

Soekarno–Hatta International is Indonesia’s principal gateway, serving one of the most populous metropolitan areas on the planet. Tropical heat and towering convective storms add a real weather dimension to sequencing arrivals here.

Soekarno–Hatta channels the domestic lifeline of a 270-million-person archipelago through its parallel east–west runways — the Jakarta–Surabaya and Jakarta–Medan trunks are among the busiest airline routes on the planet. Being eight degrees south of the equator, the operational rhythm is set by weather: towering afternoon thunderstorms regularly carve holes in the arrival sequence.

Runways

Runways 07L, 25R, 07R, 25L, 06, 24 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: CKGPWAS

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: CKGNOKTAESALAPWASSIKAD

How to control Jakarta in the simulator

Jakarta is a weather game: expect afternoon cells to squat exactly on final, and plan deviations before pilots request them. Keep spacing generous — a single storm-driven re-route can fold three streams into one, and the equatorial heat means long landing rolls and slow runway turnaround.

Pick Jakarta 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.