You wanna do this.  







Why? Because it's a very nice approach, with lots of hand flying and visual references and all that into a beautiful place called Queenstown in New Zealand. The ICAO code is NZQN. By the way, the videos also act as a nice tutorial for the 737 in my eyes.

So what's the trick and what makes it so special?
Well, since our nice CS737 is among the best when it comes to hand flying and since some nice Orbx scenery allows for a beautiful NZ experience, we should combine both, don't you think?


Ok CoolP, you is nuts, but please tell me what I need to do to fly this.
Easy! First of all, the best plane may indeed be the 737. Nah, not those sissy glass variants, the real one. CS manufactures them for FSX!

What's recommend are the mods from Bud and Paul.
Bud's FDE mod. http://www.captainsim.org/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1339198966
Paul's EPR and callout gauge. http://www.captainsim.org/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1337557332

You may also want to take a look on the charts. They are free and current since this is the source for the rw stuff. http://www.aip.net.nz/ Just pick aerodrome charts and then Queenstown.

What you are looking for is the VOR DME stuff. The call them alpha, bravo and charlie. Here's what charlie looks like. Note. This is not the approach the guys in the video used. They've used alpha and later cancelled IFR. However, their final circling segment is the same, you will see the lake and the hill being followed by the river, extending the runway centreline.

Yes, they have some mountains around that airport, quite some. So you want to be within the safe corridor and at appropriate altitudes. Otherwise you will join the scenery.  

The procedure looks more difficult than it is. Haha, don't ask how often I've tried. For this one, charlie, you are flying a DME arc at 15 DME from the SH VOR, then you descend on course 032 inbound the VOR until reaching 3DME where you break off to the North, sticking to at least 3800ft and setting you up for a circle around the airport until you can line up with runway 23. With the runway in sight and the visual references in place, you can start losing some altitude. Perhaps a bit sooner than I did in my example below.

Here's the eight-path for the visual stuff. You pick the one to the North of the field.


You should be configured for landing until reaching final, but I wouldn't fly her with full flaps all the way, so perhaps chose something in between like gear down, flaps 25 or 30 until 'making the runway', where the rest of the flaps comes out. Don't gain too much speed in between, the higher your groundspeed the wider your turns will be, or the needed bank angles. The max speed should be 155 kts, but I'd head for lower ones, depending on the Vref.

Well, I'm no pro, but that's how it worked out nicely here. Perhaps Lou can join us. He will love that approach I guess.


Now here are some impressions from one of my attempts. This was the circling after the charlie approach and you will need the visual reference. I wasn't really happy with my lateral path, but the landing was spot on while leaving the neighbours alive. So I'm ok.

This is just after breaking off and starting the circling. You have the VOR (instrument reference) and the lake to the right. So whatever reference you need, you will find one.



The airport is to the right and you mainly pass by that hill in front and line up with the river for the extended centreline. The hill has a peak of 2500ft but, for me, it looks higher when flying close.   However, it's time to descend if you are not doing it already.



And here's the landing. The main problem for me was to avoid coming in too high. You may see some rather high vertical speeds at times. But, from the videos above, it seems like this is normal if you want to clear the terrain before finally descending.




Like it? Now there's more to it since the departures work the same way. You take off and have some visual segment until you can join with your enroute path.

There isn't much room for picking other aircraft. Smaller ones of course, maybe a 757 max. The rw stuff ends at category C though. My 737-200 ADV had no trouble with stopping. So experiment if you like. Also look for the other VOR approaches (alpha and bravo), they may even be a bit easier.

Be safe!  

Sounds like a good choice, Windy.

I am very tempted to purchase the 737-200. I have just had a look at the screenshots on this website, and my credit card is shaking excitedly in my wallet!

Well, you've gone and made it so I have to buy ORBX NZ!  



This is a fun approach....when the weather is nice!
As you can see the stock scenery is weak indeed.

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lol

Lou,

The quality of Orbx products has that effect, i just want to throw money at my pc so i can get my sim looking as good as some of the screenshots i have seen. IM only missing pfj and nzni and all the airports but i have to balance my money a bit so i dont get carried away.

My pc is a true money pit

If some of you try the approaches, please let me know how you like them. I think that NZQN action really is treat for the airliners like 737 and 727. There are more cool airports, but some of them like Milford Sound are too small for commercial jets, so better pick some GA plane there. It's worth the effort!

I mean, there isn't much of an instrument bringing you down, the last visual part isn't that short and you have to watch the speeds and power settings closely, and no autopilot or autothrottle (when using the nice older 737) helps.

Not even a terrain display or a moving map, just your view outside the window and perhaps the RMI for a rough check where you are in relation to the VOR. As Lou said, the weather might bite you, although the sim should make it easier I guess.

Yesterday, I came in at dusk, bad planning of mine.   But boy that was tricky and certainly too tricky for any rw ops. Flying with guesstimates isn't safe. I may note that my FSX nights are darker due to the ENB mod. I find them too bright at default, so perhaps that added to the tricky part.

And if you've landed there, just take a look on the departure charts. Some more airmanship demands in printed form.   Lets try, shall we? This is that turn out of the valley after taking off from runway 05.


And this is after overflying the VOR and turning towards the enroute segment to Rotorua NZRO.

With that powerful little plane, the speeds come easy, but you don't want them to be over 180kts for the sake of keeping the turn radius small. Cool stuff!


I forgot to add. If you would fly modern planes in there, they also have some RNAV procedures in place (sissy stuff!  ), but you can only read those from the charts at http://www.aip.net.nz/ because Navigraph hasn't included them in the FSX FMC data they offer.

So, if you are heading for that sissy way, you have to program your FMC manually, the waypoints themselves (not the route) could be there. This only acts as a workaround of course.

As far as I understood it, the rw operators have to qualify for the RNAV stuff. All others are stuck with the older things, which makes a difference when the weather comes down to minimum.

CoastalDriver wrote on Aug 10^th, 2012 at 9:48pm:

He didn't land. He paused to buy Orbx.   

Help, full quote!  But a nice paint indeed, Eric. Keep em coming.

Very nice, Ahmet.   Only brave pilots go there. 

I see you are coming in on runway 05, flying the southern part of that eight-figure. It's tricky, right? Perhaps you can line up with the runway even sooner when using the waterline as help.
Haha, it's so easy to say this, don't ask me how often I flew this one and I still can't handle it.  

See where they want you to fly towards the runway, there's an obstacle to the right (it's hard to see, an antenna with a light on top) and the city of Queenstown to the left. You keep on the very left side of that water body. For your altitude, use the PAPI lights as soon as you see them when turning final.



With the default scenery, it may be a bit more difficult to spot the details, but here's your entry point.


With Orbx, it looks like this.  


An here's how Google Earth shows it.

Thanks for your kind words, Ahment.  

asanal wrote on Aug 11^th, 2012 at 6:20pm:

Same as you, I would love to see some more scenery in that quality around the whole globe. That would be very cool. Well, FSX does a good job on giving 'some' impression (mountains, that river and so on), but the colours are off.

Try this in the 737!

Isafjordur Airport, Iceland BIIS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1M1W_Jpy4TU

I now have Orbx AU and NZSI installed again. So I get to try the approach to Queenstown in the 737-200.
I think I would much  prefer to do it in the 737-100 though! It's a tad smaller and lighter.

No way would I try it in the 747. You'd have to be crazy to! Did I just call Lou crazy? Oops!

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.

The approach into BIIF is a real challenge in a jet.

The circling approach to RW-08 is a hoot! I tried it in the 727 and made it, but it was not pretty!  
I needed +30 degrees of bank at minimum speed to get the turn rate that I needed to make the runway.
The 737-100 was a lot better, but still VFR, day only!

I'm using another company Iceland scenery. I also have BIKF airport scenery.
The another company ad-on scenery of Iceland helps as it would with the ORBX of NZ.







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CoolP,

For the kind of flying I like to do, the CS737 is a good all around aircraft.

I love the BIIF chart page. It looks worse on the chart than in the another company scenery. 

The Faeroes are a beautiful place with wonderful people. What a nice story.

Lou

Good point on Antarctica. After a while, you get a white-out.   One also has to cheat on the weather addons. Some don't have no data at all, others try to interpolate something. And I really mean something.   On the aircraft, I run some cool prop planes down there.

But your idea on getting the 737 makes sense. Nice plane that is and if we collect some more cool approaches, we will surely enjoy her around the virtual globe. No gravel kit as of yet, I was looking for that one too. Mainly because it's a unique setup for a jet, with that bleed air blowing in front of the engines and that shielding for the gear and fuselage.

IT took  me three approaches and two missed approaches to land the 747-408 to  NZQN RW 5 with 6200 ft.

In my first attempt, I entered  to crazy "8" arrival between wall of mountains and sharp turns with trying to lose altitude and keep speed in margin, finally I lined up with RW05. Oh my GOD, one 737 just entered rwy 5 for take off and holding, I have no choice but to execute a missed approach and climb over mountains. I returned to NZCH- my departure airport.

Second day, same crazy 8 arrival lot of crosswinds, fighting with wind to not crash   edge of the mountains,I managed to descend and lineup with RW05. I  know biggest  challenge is to fit 747-408 into 6200Ft Rwy. I target a spot just behind of numbers to gain landing distance, All was looking good stable approach. just lowering plane on the rwy below 50 ft, Suddenly corner of my right eye, I saw top of tree over the  right wing. I said flight is over I clicked ESC button. I get very upset with this tree top, This was surprise of FSX texture setting. A  single tree just right edge of the runway. MY  second day closed.

This is my third day, I was ready to put this monster onto NZQN rwy5.
I went through all my accumulated two day experiences: 1- Hold the speed early enough and reach vref speed when turn to final 2-Beware mountain edges, its closer than you see and plan to turn mountain edges before  end up with a valley has no return . 3-Don't trust FSX airport, go examine before you make the flight.
TODAY ,wind was very bumpy.  I corrected my all early mistakes before develop disaster. Wind definitely was big problem for landing and decided to make approach little bit left side of rwy, then I can kick the plane to right enough at last moment and land.
THAT is what I did. I safely  landed 747-408 to NZQN.

Thank you CoolIP, giving me these  enjoyable three days adventure with finding NZQN in New Zealand .

Entering to crazy *8* shape arrival
http://img684.imageshack.us/img684/6421/nzchapp.jpg

Turning sharp final
http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/2195/nzchfinal.jpg

Crosswind correction over the runway 05
http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/6225/nzchlanding.jpg

Wow..747-408 landed
http://img836.imageshack.us/img836/8841/nzlanded.jpg

Asanal, what have you done???
You scared to death airport personnel!!
Its a SMALL, DISTANT land. Its calm and peaceful there!
You ruined they small and peaceful life dude! Now how they will live knowing that this big plane can actually fly! 
How they will board they Twotters and Cessnas? 

I've experienced some traffic jam at that location. First there's nobody, then it's full of planes. See me grabbing some line up spot.  


Gotta admit that I love this plane. Expect me running around the short routes in NZ, but still having in mind Lou's tip of course, leading me to Iceland. It's a long way to go! 

I like to fly into short runways with ILS and tricky weather.If you have ORBX PNW,and the free KHQM (Bowerman) patch.This is a hoot with the CS 737,and also other 747.You have to check flaps and fuel load with the big birds.
Ron

You must be wondering why I am so quite,. I was working on BIIS airport. Runway 26 landing is a dead trap. Usually every day I try once , ,if I am not satisfied, waiting for another day to try. I am little bid hard on my self. I must succeed takeoff and landing.  BIIS takeoff with CS-727 with close to GW is very tricky. I must sharply to turn  left at 100Ft, before I hit the mountain edge. But good news, finally I managed
takeoff/landing RW 26 at BIIS with 727, Now I need to repead to take a screen shot for forum.
Second adventure I think will be NZGT . See you there.

BIIS in the winter! Looks very cold. I went to Iceland with my wife and a friend of ours who was born in Iceland. We went in September and it was brisk, the wind always blowing. Low sun angles make it hard to see.

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Well, I had to try the 747 in BIIS. No way you can make the turn, but I came in down the valley instead. The GPWS was not happy with my approach since I hugged the hills all the way down. A lot of rudder was used to line up on final.








A little like the old Hong Kong approach!  



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BTW, there is a house or small shed at the approach end of RW 26. What do you think it is, some sort of VASI?

I was going to get BOB and go for a walk, but I took the UH-1 instead.







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Good luck.
As Lou said, watch your turns, you have to adjust your speed to execute 30 degrees banks. If your plane goes ahead of you, full power climb.
If you have to land RW 26. Make sure, use the side slip for touchdown.

Oh!..I forgot to tell you. I watched video. Its excellent. Very good planing for land. I wonder if I say to this pilot I am trying to land RW26 with CS-727,... I think he will hit my head with a stick. Come on, does he knows what a brave Simpilots  are,....Suddenly I feel  all airport crowd looking at us and father saying to his children do you see this sim-pilot..that is a pilot, we should admire. (wow, I felt second stick hit on my head. ) D

Yeah, best CRM. Like in the movies.  

Well, I came in at 44t GW and there was no way I did get my turn rates to match the approach. I've looked at that video and checked the landmarks that Fokker 50 passes by. Then I've tried the 737 again and flew, then slewed back when I was wrong, then flew again, just to quickly check if I can make it.
As said, some 140kts were needed with the flaps at full and only FSX allowed to turn at much slower speeds or go way over 30° bank.

As for other approaches, I had a nice one into RJTT Tokyo Henada. There's an offset localizer or VOR approach coming in through the Tokyo bay. If you fail and overshoot, the Kawasaki petroleum arrangement is close.  



I have some freeware for Tokyo city and airport, so that's the main attraction there, having that view when flying the bay. The turn and things will be easy for big planes, so the flying itself isn't near that Iceland challenge.

The above chart is a bit older than the current airport. Now, they have that extra runway (23) on the artificial island, that's the one with an offset localizer or some nice RNAV curves. The freeware offers that runway and the bridges connecting it to the rest of the airport.

OK!....
I accomplished the BIIS Rw26 landings with CS727-100. It took me good practice to achive touch down safely.

For my luck, There were no one at airport to see it and unfortunately  NO applause,too. At least some peanuts for return flight,

1-Turning final, Not much space, Watch mountain edges
http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/8205/biisfinal.jpg

2-The trick is to make a proper side slip to lineup with runway
http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/7919/biislanding.jpg

3-Mission accomplished
http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/2702/biiscompleted.jpg
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Cool stuff, Ahmet.   Would you say rw26 is easier than rw08 with that turn?
asanal wrote on Aug 21^st, 2012 at 1:17am:



And for Lou. How many carrier landings did you perform with the 747 yet? Don't tell me you haven't tried.  

"Would you say rw26 is easier than rw08 with that turn?"

My opinion with flying 727, 08 approach specially downwind turn to base need very careful speed/bank calculation to  not over shut the final, but you have a better  chance  to manage it, then 26  turn to SHORT final.

26 downwind/base less stress, then 08. But, you need well calculated timing/speed/bank angle  in very short time to turn and execute  short final to make  the runway.

No.NO....you will succeed. don't give up.

I made some approaches BIIS RW08  with CS737-200,but I have a problem with rudder. It does not turn fully either side . I thought maybe some thing wrong with FSX control settings, I checked all correct P&Dg 737 rudder turning freely to either directions.
Now I made my approach with CS-727-200 to RW08. I don't think it is vise idea to fly 727 to BIIS. Only way I found approach can be stabilize if you approach to RW08 right  side of the hill.

http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/3717/biis08final.jpg

Now you have to decent very quickly and without  gaining  speed (Goodluck)

http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/865/biisshortf.jpg

Then land.....
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Hahaha.   You forgot to extend the arrestor hook. Nice screenshots! Honestly, big respect for trying, Lou.  

If you ever wanted a really great carrier with folks on deck and amazing night lighting, choose this one. AI CARRIERS 2 & JAVIER'S USS NIMITZ & IKE 2 http://fsxblueangels.com/aicarriers%20download%20template.html It comes with the complete surrounding fleet and reacts to a small tool which allows a placement and movement. And it's free.  

Well, I only flew the Goshawk (freeware) and F-18 (payware) to those, but why not try the 747?  


And I see Ahmet was trying BIIS again. Well, I'm still around that location and will try too. The 737 is a nice plane for that country in my eyes. And the routes are short, so I have plenty of landing action.

In the meantime.. I've found a spare plane for us folks landing in the water.   So in between the CS737 sessions, there is this!  


Thanks to a tip form an Avsim member, I've stumbled upon this plane and another one even pointed out the freeware model. I've added the 707 sounds to those 8 pods and roarrrrrr.  


Did you even know they were on to some of those things?   540 tonnes and up to 644 km/h. they should have told us. 

Wow. Didn't know that. They already refer to that monster? 

Well, expect me 'cruising' at some 50ft now, 350 knots. Looks pretty fast when being so close to the ground, but I have trouble seeing the landmass ahead and the turn radius is huge, so, sometimes, I 'land'. 

Nuts again, but cool.   I will try too!  Congrats on the landing. Now check the catapult.  

'Name a typical carrier based aircraft.'
Boeing 727!  


I think you can also choose different deck setups. Looks so clean. Or did you keep the folks away because you were coming in with a 727, needing some room to manoeuvre?   Make sure to really pick the addon Nimitz in that tools menu. Otherwise it uses the FSX default carriers.


If you can't get enough, there also is a freeware LSO. I think he will talk down any plane (when configured), which I'm about to try.   http://www.fsdreamteam.com/forum/index.php?topic=4915.0


I wonder if we could attach some hook to the normal planes. Must be something in the aircraft.cfg.

The Nimitz in Melbourne.. Harbour. Well, I'm working on the details, ok?



Yeah, I know, default trike. Lets change that one to the 737.  

CoolP wrote on Aug 23^rd, 2012 at 4:35pm:


Its a sad story. Guys who worked on it ended up with no money and forgotten by everybody after USSR collapse. Ekranoplan was damaged during wrong takeoff procedure, and was never restored.

Some of EU or USA guys made offer to buy wreck and start international project in the beginning of 1990s, but RU rejected it because of "TOP SECRET MILITARY" crap.

Put the war guys off the board, get ekranoplan, and you can make pretty good money in overseas cargo transportation!!! Cheaper than B748, much faster than the ship.

One thing it dont like - high waves.

too bad though

CoolP, how do you get all the planes on the deck to appear. I don't see any commands in the SHIFT/J for that.

Lou

I'm still shocked by BIIS, but we have another candidate to be mastered. The very nice part about this one is the free nature since there's some good freeware out to allow flying to Bhutan, Paro.

The ICAO for that one is VQPR and you won't find that one in the default FSX selection. It isn't there! It's there, but not pretty. So, first, check out the airport itself in this video.


Find the link to the FSX freeware scenery in the video description. https://rapidshare.com/#!download|228p12|3021509571|PARO_Bhutan_VQPR_Package.zip... You will get the airport as an installer and some charts.
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We are talking about the Himalaya mountain range. Check the MSA.

Expect very high surrounding terrain with the airport itself already being at 7333ft.  

The current temps being at 25/16°C and the QNH reading 1016 lead to a density altitude of 10300ft. Keep that in mind when planning on the available 'power' of the plane in use.

The approach is a tip from an Avsim thread, find it here. http://forum.avsim.net/topic/383751-crazy-approach-to-paro/

Now, on the approach itself, there's a cool video explaining it for a 737. I'll tend to fly our fine CS737-200 in there, if I succeed.  

Note. The video is from FS2004, we will be using FSX and the freeware was made for our sim. I find the video to be an excellent help, so really watch it closely if you are interested in not crashing.  


The rw folks are flying different planes in there. The local Drukair airline had BAe 146 jets and now operates an Airbus A319 setup. However, Boeing was also testing their NG back then, right at this airport. So find some more details on the testing and challenges in this doc. http://www.boeing.com/commercial/aeromagazine/aero_23/737-700Bhutan.pdf

I recommend reading it, it explains the location a lot better than I do and it also offers some more charts.

For a rw approach in the mentioned Drukair A319 watch this video. The proximity to the terrain is amazing and having in mind how slow they have to fly to make the turn, while still banking pretty hard, adds to it.


For more stuff on how the folks from Avsim did there, more info and things, check the thread where the tip came from. http://forum.avsim.net/topic/383751-crazy-approach-to-paro/

In the video, when they approach the runway on short final, it appears that you could shoot spitballs from a straw if you were standing on the mountain ledge. Insain approach! 

Makes for fun in FSX though 

I will, and I want to try it in the 767. I will post pictures this weekend after work!

It's all about the thrill right?  But yes it might require unrealistic braking and payloads

Here we go again ...

I just watched the  737  video. I noticed scenery is different then FSX default VQPR. Which  scenery we should follow?

(I tried to download Paro_Bhutan FREE scenery, Rapid_Share is asking 9 Euro for download)

Thanks
I downloaded.
Now....I am going to my CS727-100.
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Woow..That wasn't easy flight with 727. Three approaches and finally landed on RW15. Turning  into Airport with 40 degrees bank and sharp decent was not realy much desirable flight...but I made it.
How my passengers doing???, I have no idea how they are doing,...I said to FO...Son..today is your day I am giving you the yoke  and I slided from window to tarmac.  I will never forget his shocked face and still firmly holding yoke....
Hey..hold a second ..before you say any thing...I am the CAPTAIN of this ship..or was I....

Passengers love to see grasses are, TOUCHING TO THE WING TIPS  
http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/9362/vqpr1.jpg


Wow I landed..lot of smokes from tires
http://img823.imageshack.us/img823/8103/vqpr2.jpg

There is not much left from available Runway
http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/8392/vqprstop.jpg

Great flying Sanal! I doubt I could do that landing myself! AND I don't blame you for sliding out of the window after that. I think I would have too!

And good luck to you too CoolP!

I was on my way from Kathmandu to Paro now and it seems like the training works out. I don't crash, but land.   By the way, Kathmandu VNKT is also available as freeware and has a nice approach into that valley, only offering some VOR guidance first and later needing a visual part to actually make it to the runway.

Seems like this could be our next candidate.  Enroute to Paro, you will see this. The Himalaya Range to the left.




On Paro again, here's a nice video where they come in on rw15.


And here's another one in very good quality. Watch it in HD on YT, the scenery is magnificent. Note that this is rw33, not 15 as in the other videos.

You mean that one?
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Don't worry, it's for FSX but it has a FS2004 basis which got reworked.
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It works good, I haven't seen any errors yet and it even helps on the mesh with installing some freeware mesh for the place.

If one is already running some mesh like FSGlobal, he can turn these two files off though. At Scenery\World\Scenery mesh_Himalayas_MtEverest_LOD10.bgl and mesh_Himalayas_Kula_Kangri_LOD10.bgl.

747 again? Geez, I'm happy when I get the 737-200 down there.   And the takeoff run didn't come that easy later, although she was light. But that was with 28°C at those 7333ft.

How did the 727 handle the takeoff, Ahmet? My 737 was pretty light, I had all the ULDs out, and I was on full throttle, screaming down the runway. The climbout was actually pretty good, but the takeoff roll lasted way longer than I would have liked it.

I'm running the 737 with Bud's mod though, so I don't have the superpowers from the default installation.


As a tip for you folks, in case you are looking for nearby destinations. Kathmandu Intl Airport VNKT is in the Avsim library. http://library.avsim.net/search.php?SearchTerm=vnkt&CatID=fsx&Go=Search Bit of an awkward installation with those four updates, but it works. 2500 folks already downloaded that one. 

It's a nice location and a short trip to Paro. And there's no ILS or something, only VOR and a single RNAV (RNP) procedure. The place is tricky due to the high surrounding terrain again, but there is way more room to manoeuvre than at Paro.

If one is flying modern planes, check the RNAV (RNP) procedure, it's included in the current Navigraph database.


And here's some rw video on the VOR approach from the South.

As said, not as dangerous as Paro, but nice and also something else than just locking on the ILS. At that place, in that valley, some tragic crashes took place because the folks descended too soon for example.  

They have some VOR approaches with a circling part for East and West arrivals, those are the really dangerous ones I think but all of them need you to watch the DME and required altitude closely.


The departures then look like the ones at NZQN. You fly around the VOR (DME arc), then overfly it and leave the valley with some altitude gained. Find the charts here, older ones, but they work. http://www.virtualiroma.it/eventi/DANG4/vnkt.pdf