Originally Posted by
Capt Claret
I've never heard of anyone, on approach to land, reference the terminal chart and check for location of terminal buildings, nor other parked aircraft.
Did it myself half a dozen years ago when I almost did the reverse. Coming in to Essendon in the middle of the night, over Mt Dandenong and saw a runway. Lined up on it on about a 30 mile final and flew on. I was about ten miles out when I realised I was looking at an airport where the terminal buildings were on the
south side of the runway... but Essendon has the buildings on the
north side.