The Most Hairy Approach ?
 

RW27 at GUR,wind 180/30,RVR600m,or how about London City,5.5 glide,wind 190/35, cloudbase 1000ft ,"Pilots please be advised the ILS is currently out of service!
Any advances boys and girls ?

try katmandu rwy 02 during monsoon season!

YEAH SID

You got it Kathmandu is in a different League

Not only Monsoon but the nice active CB'S at 20-12 miles final and some superb gusty winds

Wonder why they go trekkin" must be fun !!!

since i have only been to kathmandu as slf
on a sq A310 i cannot really comment as to
how hairy it is, but i have heard there is
a 4500m mountain somewhere in the flightpath
that aircraft have to fly over (the 727 a couple of years ago didn't and flew strait into it)

Gentlemen,
Try Tamanrasset, South Algeria (central Sahara) when a huge haboob is blowing. Your given the most basic instructions to commence an approach using aids that are not turned on!!!!!
TWR 'Cleared VOR approach'
ME 'Confirm VOR radiating'
TWR 'Negative'
What more can I say.

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'Keep the stress down'

My French girlfriend's vag......oh sorry, wrong forum!

Aspen, Co. KASE at night IMC. It' a VOR/DME approach that takes you right at the side of a moutain. DH is 10,200ft 2,400 agl.

My most hairy approach would have to be the one into my home airport, after being in the bush for three weeks without a razor.......boy that was ugly.
:) :)
Well some one had to say it.

Sobalena,
Sir, I would like to nominate you for the prize for the most humourous post on pprune ever! Sheer perfection. More please, soon.

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'Keep the stress down'

RW09 into LXGB with 90deg rh turn 1/4 mile
final with a full Levanter blowing used to look hairy from the my position in the tower..

VP8

AN124 you fetch it we'll haul it!!

StressFree ...

Geez mate, and here was me thinking it was bad in my corner of the planet. Here, all navaids are "pilot monitored" so if ya hear nuthin, ya got nuthin ... and ya know it before ATC does. Used to be that way with the ILS too...

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Once a king, always a king.
But once a nite's enough!

Have anyone landed at Quito-Ecuador?

I hope so!

I seem to recall that ASE (Aspen) closes at sundown. Were you doing practice approaches at night? Just curious....

AKAAB
"I have control...ECAM actions, please."

AKAAB re. Aspen. Unfortunately not anymore. It used to close at thirty min. after offical sundown and reopen thirty min. before or after offical sunrise, I have forgoten now.

But now the airport opens at 07:00 LT in the morning and closes to landing at 22:30 LT and for takeoff at 23:00 LT for stage III aircraft. Stage II aircraft have earlier times for night takeoffs. I really don't know when the times changed to allow night time operations.

In the winter time with a full moon and when the mountains are covered with snow it's not to bad, kind of pretty to tell the truth.

[This message has been edited by con-pilot (edited 19 October 2000).]

[This message has been edited by con-pilot (edited 19 October 2000).]

Kathmandu approach seems to be pretty notorious. 6 degree approach path, large mountain. The "Sierra approach" is apparently very complicated and at least 2 heavy jets(an A310 and an A300) crashed while conducting this approach about 8 years ago, both within a month or so of each other

Yep, been to Quito-Ecuador.
Nice high altitude, nice high approach speed.
Lately the ILS signal has been more or less steady, though.
So that makes tracking inbound easier. You got to abandon the GS right after the little ridge, push the nose over, and not forget to flare aggressively for that hefty upsloping runway 35. Brake overtemps are common after that.
But I'd call it fun, not hairy. (yet)
(now if the volcano would blow ... )

Regarding ASE and night ops - thanks for the update. It's only been about a year or so since I last flew in there. I guess the locals finally decided it was okay for airplanes to fly at night.

BTW - the only time I've ever had to declare and emergency was on a missed approach off Aspen. ATC wanted to make us hold for Eagle with a :40 EFC. We were in a Lr24....nuff said!

AKAAB

Sobelena
ROTFLMAO have to echo Stressfrees' remark, although it would be a close race with the Italians.

But getting back to the main game, in GA in Oz it's less about aids than the lack of them and environment.

Landing on a PAL airport/flarepath in the desert out the back of nowhere, without ILS/PAPI/VASI approach guidance on a moonless night under 9/8s cloud without ANY other civilisation (ie lights for some sort of a horizon, although in and of itself equally hazardous)in ANY direction, often without an airport aid of any sort. Back to basics then I can tell you. Pucker factor way up there.
We talk about "the inside of a cow on a dark night"

Sobelena. Brilliant. And funny.
Does she have hair under the wings also?