Most difficult/rewarding approach?
PPRuNe Handmaiden
I love Sion LSGS and Samedan LSZS for the spectacular views. Great fun when there's no cloud around.
Chambery with the circle to rwy 36 is great during the day in good wx. At night... well, must be a straight in 18 for us.
The Sion missed app is one to make my brain snap but I like our escape procedure. Essentially, pootle down the valley, turn right, go to Geneva. (Other technical details but that's the gist of it).
Lon City always gets my attention. But I treat it more as a challenge than something to fear.
Gibralter's entertaining but haven't been there for a while.
Cairo's HECA amazing. Nothing overly challenging but flying over the pyramids is really outstanding.
I like the arrival into Split, Croatia. Glorious views over the water.
The visual arrival into Cairns YBCS from the west was a cracker.
Speaking of visuals, the visual circle to land at Cannes is fun. Usually have to battle a bit of a xw at times.
Sydney's YSSY pretty nice. Nothing challenging per se but the view's sensaish.
Rekjavic BIRK at midnight with a nasty cold front is a tonne of fun... not.
Chambery with the circle to rwy 36 is great during the day in good wx. At night... well, must be a straight in 18 for us.
The Sion missed app is one to make my brain snap but I like our escape procedure. Essentially, pootle down the valley, turn right, go to Geneva. (Other technical details but that's the gist of it).
Lon City always gets my attention. But I treat it more as a challenge than something to fear.
Gibralter's entertaining but haven't been there for a while.
Cairo's HECA amazing. Nothing overly challenging but flying over the pyramids is really outstanding.
I like the arrival into Split, Croatia. Glorious views over the water.
The visual arrival into Cairns YBCS from the west was a cracker.
Speaking of visuals, the visual circle to land at Cannes is fun. Usually have to battle a bit of a xw at times.
Sydney's YSSY pretty nice. Nothing challenging per se but the view's sensaish.
Rekjavic BIRK at midnight with a nasty cold front is a tonne of fun... not.
Buttonpusher
Not my most difficult, but alarming. I was doing a CAT3/Land3 approach in a 767-400 into EHAM, I was already looking outside the windshield at 30' I saw the tail of a 737 ahead in the fog at night. My F/O and I just had the time to say "S**T !" then the sim instructor yelled "My bad!"...... he forgot to take the 737 off the runway from our previous approach in order to make us go around.
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Possibly out of date as I left 24 years ago but how about Port Vila ,Bauerfield, in the wet season.Final inbound track to a low powered locator on close right base followed by a curved visual following 5 strobe lights to a very short final for the runway. I glimpsed a 727 on one occasion just as he went through the centreline to disappear behind the coconuts to the north of the tower. There followed a period that felt like minutes but was probably about 15 seconds during which the only reason I knew he was still airborne was because i could still hear the engines. He then reappeared just climbing and the wrong side of the tower.
