The most challenging part of flying to Lord Howe Island can be the last 5 or so minutes if you're landing on 28 with the winds form the N/W. The turbulence on finals can be interesting.
I believe in certain conditions some operators do or used to fly the base leg along or very close to the coast line turning finals low level over the beach to stay out of the turbulence in N/W conditions.
No doubt there are others on here with better info on this.
Last edited by 27/09; 12th Jan 2017 at 18:29.