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Old 18th Aug 2013, 21:53
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tubby linton
 
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Surely a pilot should have information as to all of the charted obstacles relating to their approach? At this airfield we have two chart sources that cannot agree as to which obstacles they are going to depict or the accuracy of the data.
Having cleared the undershoot area why has the airport not provided approach lighting? Perhaps they never intended it to be used regularly at night or in poor weather.
Standard minima as used in Europe does not allow the LOC approach to be used at night.
Another airfield I can think of that has steep terrain in the undershoot is Lanzarote on RW21. Even this airfield has HIALS and a papi set at 3.7 degrees for that runway.

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