I like watching your older videos that I'd forgotten about. This is a beautiful approach. You don't often see those turning circles situated periodically along the runway, for some reason. Saves time and fuel backtracking from the end each time.
Thanks for watching and for sharing your comment! I agree, several turning pads save time and fuel if you compare with backtracking via at the runway end. Have a good day!
Thanks for watching and your feedback! I only landed an took off from the airport several times but I never had the chance to stay there. It looks beautiful from the air.
NIce approach. As it is a non precision app (VOR app) how do you manage the descent as it doesn´t have a localizer? Do you use the FPA switch and then a 3º descend slope according to the charts? . Thanks in advance and keep on uploading videos. Congrats for the channel!
Thanks for the great feedback! During visual approaches, main reference is the outside view. Goal is to stay far enough away from obstacles and from other airplanes. If there is a published approach, like a GPS/ILS/VOR approach we tune the navigation aids as an additional reference. Most airports can be approached with a 3 degree slope. To help on that, we usually put the runway as waypoint in our flight management system. This shows then always the distance to the runway. To stay on a 3 degree slope, we calculate a glidepath in our brain and crosscheck the actual altitude versus the remaining distance to fly. For example, if there are 10 miles to fly, altitude shall be 3000 feet above the runway elevation. 8 miles: 2400 feet, 5 miles: 1500 feet .... To stay on that vertical path, we make sure that the descent rate is correct. As a rule of thumb, for a 3 degree descent, Groundspeed multiplied by 5 is a good rate. Lots of airports also have a PAPI system. This shows the pilots a visual glideslope to the runway. 2 white and 2 red lights show that we are on the PAPI glidepath.
I like watching your older videos that I'd forgotten about. This is a beautiful approach. You don't often see those turning circles situated periodically along the runway, for some reason. Saves time and fuel backtracking from the end each time.
Thanks for watching and for sharing your comment! I agree, several turning pads save time and fuel if you compare with backtracking via at the runway end. Have a good day!
I first went to Zante back in the early 90 much has changed. A stunning island.
Thanks for watching and your feedback! I only landed an took off from the airport several times but I never had the chance to stay there. It looks beautiful from the air.
NIce approach. As it is a non precision app (VOR app) how do you manage the descent as it doesn´t have a localizer? Do you use the FPA switch and then a 3º descend slope according to the charts? . Thanks in advance and keep on uploading videos. Congrats for the channel!
Thanks for the great feedback! During visual approaches, main reference is the outside view. Goal is to stay far enough away from obstacles and from other airplanes. If there is a published approach, like a GPS/ILS/VOR approach we tune the navigation aids as an additional reference. Most airports can be approached with a 3 degree slope. To help on that, we usually put the runway as waypoint in our flight management system. This shows then always the distance to the runway. To stay on a 3 degree slope, we calculate a glidepath in our brain and crosscheck the actual altitude versus the remaining distance to fly. For example, if there are 10 miles to fly, altitude shall be 3000 feet above the runway elevation. 8 miles: 2400 feet, 5 miles: 1500 feet .... To stay on that vertical path, we make sure that the descent rate is correct. As a rule of thumb, for a 3 degree descent, Groundspeed multiplied by 5 is a good rate. Lots of airports also have a PAPI system. This shows the pilots a visual glideslope to the runway. 2 white and 2 red lights show that we are on the PAPI glidepath.
@@ApproachandDepartureVideos Excellent! Once again thanks for your fast repply. You guys, are awesome!!! I'll bear in mind that rule of thumb.
nice clip, the background music is very annoying. no music would be preferable. natural sounds are better in these kind of videos.
Thanks! My next videos will be without background music.
Fantastic island people very friendly and food brilliant
Thanks for sharing your feedback about your travel experience to Zakynthos! Have a nice day!