Better departures on IFR - how to hook up the MANSEQ

[ADSWNJ]

I was flying KEWR to KBOS today, RWY22R out of Newark, EWR5 departure, going to MERIT before getting a 4R ILS into Boston. The EWR5 prod loaded up the following:
RW22R
420FT
ILSQ2.3
MANSEQ
then the En-Route MERIT.
Flying this - I just selected direct MERIT after the MANSEQ.

My question - how can I make this more realistic? Should I strip out all the departure PROC fixes and make a realistic turn left or right off the runway heading? Is there a better way to connect from the MANSEQ to the first en-route fix?

[Maki152]

Simply fly this and when cleared direct MERIT do just that. More often than not when using an online network I am given radar vectors.

[skypilotYTS]

That departure is as real as it gets.

EWR5 Departure off the 4’s

Your top altitude on the departure (unless otherwise instructed by ATC is 3000)

Routing;

Merit is LGA (Laguardia VOR) on a 55 degree outbound heading.

The manual sequence (MANSEQ) would be the vectors given by ATC to get you off the 290 westbound heading and turned towards the LGA VOR and then onto Merit.

Obviouly in sim ATC wouldn’t do this as it won’t give vectors, but this is how we fly it on VATSIM with controllers.

With the abscence of ATC you have a few options;

1. Fly the departure, once on the 290 heading and at the SID altitude, start vectoring yourself (using headings) to make a nice turn into LGA, then once you pass over LGA you can either turn heading to MERIT or switch to NAV and direct to

2. Just forget the procedure, and direct yourself to Merit

[ADSWNJ]

Thanks for this. Quick follow-up … G5000 Garmin, is it possible to manually set up the flight plan to execute the ILSQ2.3 then the right turn 220, then the LGA 055?