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Denny · January 8th, 2008, 00:30

Not to be a Monday morning quarterback or anything because I can see it how it can happen at some locations. All of the airports I fly to have an ILS or a localizer approach. I always, always use that for every approach mainly because I'm just to lazy to look out the window until short final. The localizer always takes me to the correct runway at the correct airport. I've flown to El Paso many, many times and I couldn't point out the AFB to you if you paid me and the same with all the airports around SFO.

I see so many of my fellow pilots craning their necks looking for the runway and turning off all of the automation when cleared for a visual. I never look for the runway. I just follow the purple line on the EHSI or the flight director in a hardball panel and it always leads me to the right place. Gives me altitudes and speeds as well!

So not to criticize because it can happen. But I've been flying for 35 years and I have yet to land at the wrong airport but I can see how it can happen. That's why I always, always use everything I have in the cockpit to point me to the right place. Looking out the windows is a pointless exercise.

January 8th, 2008, 00:30	#34
Denny Newbie Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 8	Re: Landing at the wrong airport... Not to be a Monday morning quarterback or anything because I can see it how it can happen at some locations. All of the airports I fly to have an ILS or a localizer approach. I always, always use that for every approach mainly because I'm just to lazy to look out the window until short final. The localizer always takes me to the correct runway at the correct airport. I've flown to El Paso many, many times and I couldn't point out the AFB to you if you paid me and the same with all the airports around SFO. I see so many of my fellow pilots craning their necks looking for the runway and turning off all of the automation when cleared for a visual. I never look for the runway. I just follow the purple line on the EHSI or the flight director in a hardball panel and it always leads me to the right place. Gives me altitudes and speeds as well! So not to criticize because it can happen. But I've been flying for 35 years and I have yet to land at the wrong airport but I can see how it can happen. That's why I always, always use everything I have in the cockpit to point me to the right place. Looking out the windows is a pointless exercise.