audiohavoc - you flew the 727-100 from KLAX toKDCA... musta been flying on fumes the last few 100 miles, or you had a good tail wind.

David, Try the Parkway Visual to 13 L/R at KJFK. Bring the vis down to 3 miles or so and look for the lead-in lights that flash along the parkway.
This approach was easy and fun in the 727 or the 757, but the 747 made it a bit more interesting when the vis was around 3 miles and the wind howling out of the south at 25 kts. (normal summer day at JFK)

One summer afternoon we were all lined up for take off on 13R (14,600'). There must have been 30 or 40 planes. SWAP was in effect. (Severe Weather Avoidance Procedures). Thunderstorms on a summer afternoon in New York - NORMAL! Here comes Аэрофлот (Aeroflot) in a big wide body plane, and they are put on the Parkway visual, which was then called the Canarsie Approach - named after a place in Brooklyn. The weather is typical summer in JKF. Sea breeze off the Atlantic, blowing strong - with salt air. Visibility around 3 miles in haze. Summer in the City! The string of planes lined up on this approach goes forever. The Aeroflot boyz are having a heck of a time finding the runway and they have to go around. Normally a go around is not a big deal, but with the string of traffic at rush hour in New York - forgetaboutit! So the poor controller makes a space in the line and fits them in for another approach. Oh no! they miss again! Of course we are all listening on the tower and laughing, but feeling their pain. Back in line they go and try again. This time after much help from the local controller using his bright display radar to keep the Ruski on course he turns final and calls "Runway in sight"... a few seconds later on the tower frequency the Aeroflot pilots tells the tower "This approach is for the SH#TS! :o

Everybody broke out in laughter because we knew he was right!  ;D