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KTRK Truckee-Tahoe — local VFR procedures

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Not for navigation. These are locally published VFR routes, reproduced with sources; verify against the official documents linked from each procedure before flight.

Pattern altitude 7,000' MSL light aircraft, 7,500' turboprop & jets. Left traffic for all runways except 20. Glider operations 5 NM NW during daylight Mar-Oct; gliders use left traffic runway 20. Special hazards: high terrain, wind shear, density altitude, wildlife.

VFR arrivals

All arrivals — 2 / 11 / 20 / 29

  • Prosser Reservoir Arrival — Arrival gateway from the north over Prosser Reservoir: heading 130 to I-80, then straight-in 20 or overhead to the downwind for another runway.

Runway 20 / 29

  • Donner Lake Arrival — Arrival gateway from the west over Donner Lake to the runway 29 downwind along Highway 267, or the right downwind for runway 20.
  • Landfill Arrival — Arrival gateway from the north to the extended runway 29 downwind along Highway 267, or the right downwind for runway 20.

VFR departures

Runway 2

  • Scales Departure — Runway 2, the preferred noise departure: straight out until abeam the sewage treatment plant, then left to the Truck Scales on I-80.

Runway 11

  • Scales Departure — Runway 2, the preferred noise departure: straight out until abeam the sewage treatment plant, then left to the Truck Scales on I-80.

Runway 29

  • Bypass Departure — Runway 29: runway heading just past the end of the runway, slight right along the Highway 267 Bypass Bridge to I-80, then on course near roadways.

Runway 20

Other local procedures

All operations — 2 / 11 / 20 / 29

  • Good Neighbor Noise Program & Curfew — Voluntary no-fly curfew 2200-0700; avoid residential areas and overfly roadways; Vx then Vy climbs; alternate runways for touch-and-go; calm-wind preference: depart 2, arrive 20.

These routes are advisory as published — none of them is a regulation. Assigned by ATC in Class B, C or D airspace, a route becomes an ATC instruction under 14 CFR 91.123; “unable” remains available to the pilot in command. Each procedure page shows its own authority level and links its primary sources.