Cranking and Banking

30.May.2007

This is a cool approach to a runway, at least from a pilot’s perspective, I’m sure some of you will squirm. It gets even better when I realized the airport looks familiar. This is Tegucigalpa airport in Honduras. I’ve been there AND I’ve been on that approach, sadly though only as a passenger.

We used to shoot a very similar approach into La Guardia that had you in a steep bank right over Shea stadium and then dump you less than a 1/2 mile from the end of the runway. If you didn’t nail it just right, you were going around. I was lucky enough to shoot it two weeks out of initial training. You can’t imagine the pucker factor on that one.

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