best approach in aviation?

[Loafman]

theres one on every thread! I bet your licence plate says
CHK ARMN

No, my license plate says "AA-4-PLAY"

 

[GuppyPuppy]

Ah....

I must add Mexico City, day or night with only the old steam guages.

Cheers!

GP

 

[H2OK9]

I think the "cowboy approach" at Telluride, CO. The airport is in a boxed canyon with 14er's all around and the runway is on the side of a mountain in a "U" shape. 150' lower in the middle than at the thresholds. anyway, you come over the top at 16,000 drop flaps and gear, turn left on down wind dropping out of the sky in a canyon, buzz Oprah's house flaps 35 while on base to final still banked until over the threshold, don't over shoot!

There is also the "Beaver one" Approach in Amarillo, that's just a vector to runway 4 over the Strip club so close that you can read the marquee sign

 

[Smoking Man]

DCA

LDA DME with GS 19 Circle 22.


"stabilized approach criteria."

What is that?

 

[Loafman]

Re: DCA

LDA DME with GS 19 Circle 22.


"stabilized approach criteria."

What it that?

That's the thing that will keep you alive when you transition to a swept wing airplane.

 

[TurboS7]

Gitmo at night in a rainstorm.
River visual 19 DCA
LGA 31 visual
LGA 13 visual(nice on a clear day)
TGU-especially in the summer
GUA-anytime especially at night
SJO-anytime
ADQ
JNU
KTN
SIT
DUT
CDB
Quito at night
HNL-cause the best is yet to come
FRU-interesting
HER-when the wind is blowing

 

[Smoking Man]

That's the thing that will keep you alive when you transition to a swept wing airplane.

You obviously missed the humor involved in dealing with approaches into DCA. Sorry that you did not get the humor, I shall include LeMAC data in further posts.

 

[414Flyer]

There is also the "Beaver one" Approach in Amarillo, that's just a vector to runway 4 over the Strip club so close that you can read the marquee sign

Some friends of mine saw it when they were on short final there.

They went, and apparently it is some bolted together mobile homes, and at the time they were there, there was a midget and a pregnant woman stripping

 

[i'mbatman]

I haven't done it yet, but when I do I'm sure the 'Canarsie Approach" into 13R or L at JFK will live up to its expectation! as well as the Expressway Vis into LGA! i love NY

 

[dsee8driver]

Gitmo at night in a rainstorm.
GUA-anytime especially at night
SJO-anytime
Quito at night

These are great ones!

 

[Craven Morehead]

USS Stennis, daytime, with arming wires trailing from empty weapons stations.

 

[TurboS7]

The closest that I have gotten to Innsbruck is the Volmet, but if the girl looks as good as she sounds it is a place to visit.

 

[WIDGETBOY]

bridge visual into sju is pretty cool

landing east in domanica around the mountain left into the valley then land

the circle into 4L in bos is also not bad

 

[A Squared]

bridge visual into sju is pretty cool

Yep, was just thinking that. nothing like being in a 45 degree bank turning final, 1000 ft horizontally from a 767 on short final for the not quite parallel rwy.

 

[dav8or]

If you flew the Saab into PIT:

Cleared for the vis 32 circle to land 28L roll to the end approved.

 

[sgu]

RIVER VIS RWY 29 @ PWM

RIVER VIS 19 @ DCA

ANY appch into mexico is quite interesting!

 

[jergar999]

Anyone who has a flight sim should fly into or out of SESM (Ecuador). You'll understand the second it loads.

 

[dsee8driver]

jergar999 Anyone who has a flight sim should fly into or out of SESM (Ecuador). You'll understand the second it loads.

WOW, I tried it on my FS2002 Pro with the 172. It's a challenge to get out in was pretty good too.

I have flown into Quito in real life and this is quite different.

 

[FEDUPPILOT]

Going to AXA (Anguilla 2900ft big hump in the middle) at night can be interesting. Beef island is also fun. And CIW is my favorite! Always a X-wind 3000ft or so. St Lucia at night with rain also a good one (NDB 10)

 

[TurboS7]

Try Beef Island with a LR24......

 

[bobbysamd]

Sedona, Arizona

Landing at Sedona, Arizona is interesting. Breathtaking scenery.The airport is situated on a plateau in a sort of valley surrounded by mountains. It's like landing on an aircraft carrier. It also has an NDB approach where the IAF is also the FAF and you have to go outbound, execute the procedure turn and descend to mins. The winds can get squirrely on a warmer day, so the approach puts your NDB tracking abilities to the test.

 

[mar]

"Birthplace of the Wind"

I'm disappointed nobody mentioned Adak--with a tailwind and rising terrain in three quads...

 

[TurboS7]

Shoot-not even Alaskan pilots get out there.

 

[jergar999]

I have to agree with the Sedona post. I used to live in Phoenix, and almost weekly we would leave IWA for SEZ in a 172. The coolest thing about it was in the afternoon that tired old 172 would hardly climb, but as you got to the north and hit the thermals, it was nothing to hit 12000 feet while level. Same thing on the way back, a few times we avoided ATC altogether as we were well above PHX class B.

 

[flx757]

Shoot-not even Alaskan pilots get out there.

Well, back when I was last an Alaskan pilot, we had one route that went: ANC, Dutch Harbor, Adak, back to Dutch, then back to Anchorage. The most amazing part of that particular run was how much the wx at DUT had changed the second time in from when we were there earlier in the day.

But, it sure was a lot of fun!! (Usually )

 

[Skank]

Anyone been to Brookings, Oregon? How about Weed, California? South Lake Tahoe is pretty cool, too.

 

[abev107]

SESM *cannot* be a real airport. I made it to the rim with a 172, stalled, bounced down the side...gave me enough a/s to make a power off landing.

 

[jergar999]

SESM is real, and is recreated very accurately on Microsoft FS2002. I couldn't believe it either, do a google search. You can find pictures of the real thing. It's built in an extinct volcano.

 

[Traumahawk]

jergar999, you got a link for pictures? I've heard too its real...try getting the 727 out of there....hehe.

T-hawk

 

[Traumahawk]

If you like Sedona and Catalina and the like....meet another close cousin. I had the pleasure of flying into Jackson County, NC (24A)a couple times this weekend. Situated on the top of a leveled peak in the Smokies...not as high as the others but when it's windy....just don't go in there with lazy feet. Very friendly people on the ground and excellent views. Runway has recently been repaved too.............great for making those "VFR on top" landings when the valleys fog up.

T-hawk