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Old 5th Jul 2008, 07:47
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point8six
 
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Landed many times on SEZ rwy 13 -(since 1978). Mostly either visual, arriving from the west, or from the south via a published circling approach, breaking off from the Rwy 31 ILS at 1120ft. into a left-hand circuit with published VOR radials and DMEs. The difficulty in lining up occurs with a strong SE wind due to rotors from the cliff to the south of the runway and strong downdrafts.
My interpretation of the chart above is that you should maintain 2500ft until 10DME (FAF) and then descend to be 1760ft by 6.5DME,then descend to 1120ft by 4.5DME at which point if not visual, perform the published missed approach. None of the above descents require excessive rates- of- descent, and of course if visual before MAP then adjust the approach accordingly.
I'm not sure why the 763 left 2500ft at 11d, nor why it continued descending to 1120ft and ignored the 6.5d altitude check, unless the crew were visual early in the approach. The trick is to be in the landing configuration before starting descent at 10d - it reduces the approach speed and consequently the RoD.
A "fun" approach in a large aircraft along with JFK -Carnasie 13 and the old Hong Kong (Kai Tak) IGS 13
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