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airsmiles
1st Mar 2001, 01:22
Just returned from the sunny isle. Can anyone enlighten me why most arrivals seem to have straight-in approaches from the west, but a chosen few are allowed to approach from the east over the sea (downwind) and land visually from about 4 miles or so ? This isn't an ATC favour to the locals as Hapag-Lloyd, Air 2000 and Premiair were also at it.
Just interested thats all.
Jetdriver
1st Mar 2001, 01:30
Most arrivals are from the North. This usually results in a "Konba" arrival or similar. If TFS are landing on runway 26 the arrival routes down the western side of the island then along the south coast to intercept the localizer for Runway 26.
Clearly if you were arriving from the East or North east the arrival would bring you via Gran Canaria for a downwind arrival to Runway 26. It may well happen that some flights route via other islands or from that direction generally.
What Jetdriver says is correct, and it also helps one hell of a lot if you are flying a Spanish registered aircraft, as you always get priority over any other plane withing 100 nm. Doesn't that drive anyone else mad :mad: :mad: