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Old 2nd Jul 2014, 11:49
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Tu.114
 
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500 above is right. If I may expand his words a little:

- During peak hours, there is a speed limit of 160kts until DME4 on the ILS. Times are per NOTAM; slower traffic will not be accepted in these periods.

- There are several special arrivals for slower traffic. One is via the south sector, approaching on a northerly course to the west and clear of Rwy. 16/34 and then turning inbound to land approx. midfield on 29; another route is via River Danube. Keep Your charts ready and familiarize Yourself with geographical features such as Freudenau (a common holding) beforehand.

- Taxiing is a bit troublesome even to a regular on occasion. Keep a taxi chart handy and if possible use Your copilot to note the clearance and show You the way. Especially the taxiways W/D/E around the threshold of 16 and also the area just north of the threshold of 29 are a mess offering plenty of opportunity for wrong turns. Some ground controllers are rather short-tempered and may react a bit harshly to offenses like requests for confirmation or stray aircraft.

- Parking will usually be on one of the western G/A aprons.

-Fees are said to be exorbitant. Find them in the PDF folder in German or in English language.

If You just want to go to Vienna and do not insist on flying to LOWW itself, LOAV (Bad Vöslau), LOAN (Wiener Neustadt) or - a bit further out - Stockerau may be options as well. Especially the first two are not far from the railway trunk line that has trains running to Vienna city every few minutes. At LOAN, there are public busses running between the airfield and the railway station; LOAV might require using a taxi. LOAN has some non precision IFR approaches; for VFR traffic, it suffers from a rather cramped traffic pattern due to interference with the military grass field LOXN right to the west of it.
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