Toughest Approaches

[thunderworm]

glad to see fokkers&beer still kicken it. jnu definetly but what about ktn swithching from loc to ndb to vor that is the willy nilly for those horizion guys. just playing i like the rides you give us.

 

[Offwidth]

Yeah, LDA 2 in JNU and Kodiak get my votes. Don't know what that guy from Colorado was yapping about the other day...

 

[unwashed]

any approach into butte montana. DH is about 990, 10000 foot mountains on the east side.
The RNAV or NDB into KSUN are fun.

 

[bell47]

VFR, overgrossed Airtractor 301, with blown cylinder, oil on the windshield, oil temp rising, oil press and airspeed dropping, back to to wet, grass 1800 ft strip. with a left quarting tailwind of about 8 knots. Been there done that, yup it sucked!

 

[CrewDawg]

VFR, overgrossed Airtractor 301, with blown cylinder, oil on the windshield, oil temp rising, oil press and airspeed dropping, back to to wet, grass 1800 ft strip. with a left quarting tailwind of about 8 knots. Been there done that, yup it sucked!

I think we have a winner!!!

 

[fokkers&beer]

Shot the approach into Quito, Ecuador yesterday, the missed is pretty tricky. The thing about Quito is it sits at 9,000' MSL and theres a hill that requires a turn 2 miles from the airport. The high altitude does take a little away from the performance also. The terrain down there looks fairly similar to JNU however, I think the JNU approach is worse, and if you continue with only lights in sight the missed is scarier.

 

[greasy8driver]

I've done Quito several times. If the wx is bad it can be interesting expecially if your a/c doesn't like to stop.

But I think LaPaz in bad wx or Valencia Venenzuela ndb appr. in the middle of the night is worse.

my 2 cents

 

[kilroy]

try the VOR/DME into Tegucigalpa, MHTG

Been there done that one day I did 4 approaches(Full approaches 10 turns in the hold) before getting in. The locals were landing all around me but I couldn't see sh!t