When I was still flying the Dash 8 some many moons ago we had a Kiwi Sim Instructor who used to fly the Dash in NZ, sure as eggs for practice in the sim we would get the Queenstown approach in 8/8 down to minimums with strong winds and icing thrown in, he reckoned the approach sorted out the men from the boys, amazing how close the hills can seem some days.

For fun we were also given the challenge of over the top at 10,000, idle power and a glide approach visually into Queenstown, amazing what good short field performance you could squeeze out of a Dash 8.

Anyhow I am off to try the LOU challenge in th 727 in Iceland. Done the Queenstown thing to death. Loved the scenery addons though.