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Old 27th Jan 2014, 23:51
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bubbers44
 
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Thanks, TD, tough croud here. Please send me a personal message because I don't know who you are.

I spent the last several years flying to Tegucigalpa, Honduras TGU which makes a circle to 33 at Aspen a cake walk. After over 600 landings with no problems was able to do my retirement flight there 10 years ago.

I loved the airport, the challenge and the people there. No magenta lines there, strictly visual with reference to terrain as your only guidance.

Flightlevel350.com shows my last approach and landing there on my retirement flight with my wife in the jump seat and my two neighbors, both pilots as FO and video operator. Search MHTG and look about 7 videos down with the picture out the cockpit of the 757. My usual copilot who has a family house down there cleared me to land.

Yes, we did left traffic to 33 in a Lear Jet with no problem referencing terrain.
It was a lot easier than this approach.
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