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Originally Posted by cime_sp

I've been based in ATL as an ASA pilot for over 3 years now but I heard something coming in today that I've never heard before. We were on the Honie arrival and assigned ILS PRM 9R. As we were doing that I heard 2 Delta flights and 1 AirTran flight be assigned 8L. Approach told them to "fly the 8L transition procedure"?????? Huh? I've NEVER heard that and couldn't find anything on our charts/plates. Is it something new? Company specific?One of the Delta flights seemed to be caught a little off guard as well.

Please advise...

Look on the HONIE 5 STAR http://204.108.4.16/d-tpp/0803/00026HONIE.PDF . When issued the 26R transition from HONIE for example at WOLMN you will then track to NOFIV for the north downwind to to 26R as opposed to staying on the south downwind for 27L or 28 when in trips. This is only done on the "long side" of the airport IE the side where you are going to fly the downwind. Not done on the "short side" IE the base leg side.