Sucre
Wow!! I'm going to have to rave about this airport. The touch down onto the start of the runway is in the bottom of the valley with the terminal at the top. The approach meant that I had to skirt the top of the surrounding mountains, drop in the valley for the sloped runway. This goes down as my first landing on what can only be described as one of the worlds "most difficult and dangerous" Airports. This scenery by LatinVFR of Sucre is incredible, along with the slopping runway.
It's probably fair to say that this leg took more than a few "practice runs" and "go around" before nailing it. Definitely worth the detour!!
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BoA AirlineFlight: OB582737NG: |
I have switched to flying for BoA to service this route. Sucre is the capital city of Bolivia. Though many people would confuse it with La Paz
(which is the administrative seat) Sucre is the capital city of this South American nation.
The only airport in this city is “Juana Azurduy De Padilla” Airport SLSU (SRE). And it
has on average 2 daily flights within Bolivia servicing this city. The airport is considered
by most one of the most challenging and difficult of Bolivia and also among South
American airports.
Ever wanted to fly your airliner (737/A320) into a sloped runway airport such as Lukla or
Courchevel? You know you can’t because the runway is not apt, but Sucre airport’s
runway which is significantly sloped because of its location in mountain ridges is a
9000+ feet runway, but because the field’s high elevation of more than 3000+ meters
above sea level coupled with the sloping runway its quite a challenge to both arrive and
depart from this airport.
For landing usually on runway 05, its quite a challenge because once touchdown the
runway starts to downward slope and the pilot would think is going to run out of runway
and fall into the abyss at the end. For departure which is only on one direction, full power
is to be applied in order to avoid a hill that is ahead and caution on rotation is to be
exercised in order to prevent a tail strike.
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Routing |
A fairly interest routing out of Santiago on 17R using the ESLAR departure for TABON 1A. Needing as much height before crossing back over the Andes Mountains ( these are some seriously tall mountains)
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Weather & Scenary: | Seat belt sign on for the descent into Asuncion. Isolated thunder clouds and rain made it a bit bumpy. With this being a night flight there was not much to see out of the window. |  |
Airport Scenary |
Sucre Juana Azurduy de Padilla International Airport was been reproduced by LatinVFR and available on SimMarkt here.
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Cost To Date: | LatinVFR - SUCRE Bolivia SLSU £16.78 |
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