VOR Landing Madeira Airport
Madeira Airport (IATA: FNC, ICAO: LPMA), also known as Funchal Airport and Santa Catarina Airport, is an international airport located near Funchal, Madeira, Portugal. The airport controls national and international air traffic of the island of Madeira. The airport was opened on July 18th, 1964 with two 1600m runways. The airport was once infamous for its short runway which, surrounded by high mountains and the ocean, made it a tricky landing for even the most experienced of pilots. The original runway was only 1600 meters in length, but was extended by 200 meters 8 years after the TAP Air Portugal Flight 425 incident of 1977 and subsequently rebuilt in 2000, almost doubling the size of the runway, building it out over the ocean. Instead of using landfill, the extension was built on a series of 180 columns, each being about 70m tall. This airport is also considered the Kai Tak of Europe because of its singular approach to runway 05[citation needed]. For the enlargement of the new runway the Funchal Airport has won the Outstanding Structures Award, given by International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE). The Outstanding Structures Award is considered to be the “Oscar” for engineering structures in Portugal.Madeira Airport (IATA: FNC, ICAO: LPMA), also known as Funchal Airport and Santa Catarina Airport, is an international airport located near Funchal, Madeira, Portugal. The airport controls national and international air traffic of the island of …
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In a VOR/DME landing you can’t use the autoland (in reality). You can however add several reference points based on the approach charts into the FMC, and use them as help or let the autopilot . Here in Madeira, AFAIK, you turn off the autopilot when you are more or less on downwind of the runway 05 (check the LPMA charts for the fix MAP which ist 3.6 NM southwest of the funchal VOR), and you continue to fly by hand.
Nice job! What are your water settings at?
How do you do an VOR/DME landing ? does the autopilot fly the approach /landing or is it manually ?