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Cougar Arrival KBFI local VFR procedures

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vfr arrival Airport sponsor published effective 2026-09-25 verified 2026-10-07 (2 d ago)

Published by the airport sponsor; voluntary unless ATC assigns it. If ATC assigns this route to you in Class B, C or D airspace, that assignment is an ATC instruction and compliance is required (14 CFR 91.123) — and “unable” remains available to the pilot in command.

Arrival from the east over downtown Bellevue via Mercer Island and Seward Park to the right downwind.

The route

  1. Contact BFI Tower on 118.3 over downtown Bellevue
  2. From downtown Bellevue, fly to the north tip of Mercer Island, then direct Seward Park to enter the right downwind

Where it actually is

North up. The sponsor names these landmarks and publishes no coordinate for any of them — everything positioned here is derived, and each coordinate's provenance is listed with its point below. Dashed markers are depicted: this site's reading of the written route, not published fixes.

1Call BFI Tower here on 118.3Call BFI Tower here on 118.32North tip of Mercer IslandNorth tip of Mercer Island3Direct Seward Park, then en…Direct Seward Park, then en…4Right downwindRight downwind1 NMN
  1. 1 Call BFI Tower here on 118.3 Downtown Bellevue The high-rise cluster east of Lake Washington — the only skyline on that side of the water. N47°36.87' W122°11.54' 47.61442, -122.19234 110 ft BELVUE satellite Apple Maps street view coordinate: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)
  2. 2 North tip of Mercer Island The northern point of Mercer Island, about 0.9 NM north of the I-90 bridges. N47°35.76' W122°14.75' 47.59595, -122.24583 228° mag · 2.4 NM 30 ft MERCRN satellite Apple Maps street view coordinate: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), northernmost point of the Mercer Island shoreline
  3. 3 Direct Seward Park, then enter the right downwind Seward Park A thumb-shaped forested peninsula pushing into Lake Washington from the west shore, dark green with water on three sides. N47°33.07' W122°15.95' 47.55122, -122.26580 182° mag · 2.8 NM 60 ft SEWARD satellite Apple Maps street view coordinate: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)
  4. 4 Right downwind Placed abeam the field east of the runway. N47°31.80' W122°17.22' 47.53000, -122.28700 199° mag · 1.5 NM depicted COUDWD satellite Apple Maps

6.8 NM over 4 route points. Bearings are magnetic, converted from true at each leg's midpoint through the WMM 2025 model this site ships (14.8°E here). Shoreline, lakes, highways and building outlines © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Class B and Class D boundaries: FAA Aeronautical Information Services.

Put it in the GPS

Route points become a route; reference points ship as waypoints only — a GPS that sequences you to a do-not-overfly marker has it backwards.

When it applies

Source text, verbatim

COUGAR ARRIVAL:
• Contact BFI Tower on 118.3 over downtown Bellevue
• From downtown Bellevue, fly to the north tip of Mercer Island, then direct Seward Park to enter the right downwind

The text above is the published source wording and is authoritative over any summary on this page.

Sources

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