The airport itself doesn`t look all that nasty, it`s the approach and manoevering on short final that makes it interesting
. It also says that there are restrictions on flying there, i.e. VMC in daylight hours, and a special aerodrome checkout for pilots. And only 8 pilots are checked out to fly there
which would translate to 4 crew. I`m guessing that the MAPt is pretty far out due to missed approach climb gradient and procedures vs terrain, probably a bit of "I can see such and such mountain on the approach" and TWR probably says something like "I can see it from the airport as well"
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And of course there should be a contingency procedure in case something would warrant a go around after the MAPt (an engine failure would have the calmest pilot sweating bullets).
Good piece of flying by the boys
. Hats off to ya!
