Where is MEPTE

[Jose]

How can I find out where the FAA thinks MEPTE is? On the NOS IFR charts
it's charted as in the water (or over it), but when I fly it, it's over
land. I know the NOS charts are not all that accurate (for topography)
but I'd like to know where it is, for a certification flight for our GPS.

Any ideas?

Jose
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[Peter R.]

On 5/24/2007 12:08:55 PM, Jose wrote:

> How can I find out where the FAA thinks MEPTE is? On the NOS IFR charts
> it's charted as in the water (or over it), but when I fly it, it's over
> land. I know the NOS charts are not all that accurate (for topography)
> but I'd like to know where it is, for a certification flight for our GPS.
>
> Any ideas?

I know it is not official, but Airnav's airspace/fix tab, which supposedly
pulls right from a current FAA nav database, shows MEPTE as 41-20-09.900N
073-57-50.100W.

http://www.airnav.com/airspace/fix/MEPTE

Again, not official but perhaps a starting point.

--
Peter

[Mitty]

MEPTE

N41200990 41.336083
W073575010 -73.963917

From the DAFIF database


On 5/24/2007 11:08 AM, Jose wrote the following:
> How can I find out where the FAA thinks MEPTE is? On the NOS IFR charts
> it's charted as in the water (or over it), but when I fly it, it's over
> land. I know the NOS charts are not all that accurate (for topography)
> but I'd like to know where it is, for a certification flight for our GPS.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Jose

[Dave Butler]

Peter R. wrote:
> On 5/24/2007 12:08:55 PM, Jose wrote:
>
>> How can I find out where the FAA thinks MEPTE is? On the NOS IFR charts
>> it's charted as in the water (or over it), but when I fly it, it's over
>> land. I know the NOS charts are not all that accurate (for topography)
>> but I'd like to know where it is, for a certification flight for our GPS.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>
> I know it is not official, but Airnav's airspace/fix tab, which supposedly
> pulls right from a current FAA nav database, shows MEPTE as 41-20-09.900N
> 073-57-50.100W.
>
> http://www.airnav.com/airspace/fix/MEPTE
>
> Again, not official but perhaps a starting point.

Here's the entire record from the FAA's ATA100 FIX file:

MEPTE NEW YORK 41-20-09.900N
073-57-50.100WFIXIAP

[Steven P. McNicoll]

"Jose" > wrote in message
et...
>
> How can I find out where the FAA thinks MEPTE is? On the NOS IFR charts
> it's charted as in the water (or over it), but when I fly it, it's over
> land. I know the NOS charts are not all that accurate (for topography)
> but I'd like to know where it is, for a certification flight for our GPS.
>
> Any ideas?
>

According to FAA Order 7350.7 the FAA thinks MEPTE is found at
41-20-09.9000N 073-57-50.1000W. Looks like land to me.

http://mapper.acme.com/?lat=44.444161&long=-88.035317&scale=14&theme=Topo&width=3&height=2&dot=Yes

[Dave S]

Steven P. McNicoll wrote:

>
> According to FAA Order 7350.7 the FAA thinks MEPTE is found at
> 41-20-09.9000N 073-57-50.1000W. Looks like land to me.
>
> http://mapper.acme.com/?lat=44.444161&long=-88.035317&scale=14&theme=Topo&width=3&height=2&dot=Yes
>
>

Your map link shows down town green bay, wisconsin. The Coords in the
link do not match the coords listed above for MEPTE.

[Jose]

> According to FAA Order 7350.7 the FAA thinks MEPTE is found at
> 41-20-09.9000N 073-57-50.1000W. Looks like land to me.
>
> http://mapper.acme.com/?lat=44.444161&long=-88.035317&scale=14&theme=Topo&width=3&height=2&dot=Yes

Cool app! Thanks.

And thanks to everyone else who helped. I found my Mepte.
Unfortunately I couldn't use it, because the West Point restricted area
was hot. We just got a new 430W upgrade I was checking out, and a few
days ago when flying the GPS34 into SWF, I lost complete GPS coverage on
both attempts. Both times while over the (not hot) restricted area.

I wanted to try it again today, but no dice. I did some other
approaches and they worked out fine though. Any idea what might cause
such a LOS?

Jose
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[Steven P. McNicoll]

"Dave S" > wrote in message
link.net...
>
> Your map link shows down town green bay, wisconsin. The Coords in the link
> do not match the coords listed above for MEPTE.
>

How odd.

[Jose]

> Your map link shows down town green bay, wisconsin.

Apparantly, like a few other google maps apps, the URL defaults, no
matter what, to some predetermined point.

Jose
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