From the Flight Deck - Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport (BJC)

Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport (BJC) is a medium sized, multi-use airport located 20 miles west of the Denver International Airport. Situated on the northwest edge of the metropolitan area, it provides a convenient alternative to business and general aviation visiting the Denver area. A complex airport layout coupled with the wide diversity of pilot experience and aircraft performance makes Rocky Mountain Metropolitan a challenge to both pilots and controllers. This video prepares pilots for hot spots and common issues at BJC.
Visit www.faa.gov/bjc for supplemental "pilot handbook" information on this airport including airport-specific cautions, information local controllers want pilots to know, airport communications, airspace details and other preflight planning resources.
To address wrong surface events where an aircraft lines up to or lands on the incorrect runway, taxiway, or airport, the FAA released Arrival Alert Notices (AAN) at various airports with a history of misalignment risk. View the BJC Arrival Alert Notice here: www.faa.gov/ai...
FAA's From the Flight Deck video series uses cockpit mounted cameras to capture runway and taxiway footage and combines them with diagrams and visual graphics to clearly identify hot spots and other safety-sensitive items. Learn more at www.faa.gov/Fr....
This video is informational only and does not replace the pilot’s responsibility to conduct required pre-flight planning in accordance with FAR 91.103.

[@4-7th_CAV]

This is a great presentation. I have flown into BJC many times in the past and I think it is a great airport. I hope you are considering making videos, like this one, of other airports around the country emphasizing their operations.

[@FAAnews]

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Check out this map of available videos - we're at 30+ airports and counting.

[@4-7th_CAV]

@@FAAnews Thank you, I will watch them all.

[@hqcook]

Very nice. Thanks.

[@thejamer5280]

This is a great series of videos.

[@malamuteaerospace6333]

old Jeffco. had a hangar there for 15 years. a lot of flight schools there plus Pilatus North American Headquarters are there. Nice not in or under Denver Class B.

[@MrNehlich]

Very helpful, thank you.

[@jimmybernabetrodriguez.7795]

BIG FAMELY inf........25M😍😍SDIB.

[@bashakr]

I actually witnessed the last seconds of a Pilatus PC-7 into BJC back in Jan 2000. I was working in an office building below the airport to the South (@2:03 of the video) and had stepped outside for a few minutes. BJC is located up on a plateau. I noticed a small aircraft coming in at a higher than normal speed for any other plane I had watched before and thought it was just going to do a low pass and continue on his way. But when it never rose back in the air, I thought to myself 'Wow, that guy is really good to have been able to land his plane at that speed in such a short distance". Found out later that night on the local news that it wasnt a successful landing after all. With the runway being up on the plateau I was not able to hear the crash or see any smoke from my location. Oddly enough, a co-worker and I decided to become private pilots the next year, completing our ground school..... Aug 2001. 20+ years later, I am finally looking at starting once again.
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