Originally Posted by FLCH
Last time I went into SJO I remembered the upsloping runway giving you the false impression of being high, I kept on having to look at the Flight Director to make sure we didn't get low, maybe he threw caution to the wind and did everything by eyeball/brain ?
Somewhat the same visual illusion pilots are faced with during approach to runway 10R at KFLL which has, at it's steepest point, a gradient of 1.1% up.
Fortunately, the 10R ILS is backed up by PAPI.