NZFF

This week we'll be having our online evening at Queenstown from 8pm NZ Time (0800 GMT). Come along and try your hand at the challenging departures and approaches.

Alex

Great, I have a question about the A VOR/DME approach.

I was flying in there like midnight Saturday, completly dark and flew the descent from 10,000ft down and passed the correct dme distance and altitudes like any other vordme approach but when I got to slope hill I had to some how get 300,000pounds down 4000ft in 2nm (its harder than it sounds! ) How are you ment to do it? Whats the correct proc?

So I suppose you have to fly visualy after slopehill? not quite a CATIIIc approach ae

Any help apreiciated
Thanks
James

the aircraft circles around the basin there to line up with RWY23, and I think they go over the airport and around the lake to line up with RWY5

I presume you were flying your 767 too? a bit big for Queenstown

hehe would I fly anything else?

Okay so round and round till I get down I ended up doing a similier thing anyway, just a bit of an orbit, witch ended up being about three orbits, think I managed to fly over every part of queenstown whilst I did it! Pity it doesn't say to do so on the approach plate, or I didn't read it thoughly, an unexpecting pilot not a happy pilot!

Thanks for that Tim

James

From your description I take it you were on the VOR/DME alfa approach (not bravo or charlie). Being a non precision approach you'll need to join the traffic pattern at some point. Note that the traffic pattern for NZQN for aircraft greater than 5700KG is a figure of eight, not a rectangle and its is flown at 4000 feet, as zolt mentioned this traffic pattern crosses over the aerodrome. nzav8tor will know for sure....I think he's doing a tute on this approach. Hope this helps

Maybe you'd want to try the RNAV approach James?

Alex

Great to see some new faces online, we'll be heading up North next week.

Alex