IFR approach video into Queenstown, NZ

I found myself yelling NO DON'T DO IT!!!

That was amazing.
 
Anybody think AvWeb lurks here to find things for their news? They just posted this video today.
 
This vid was discussed somewhere here about a week ago. This is a great video
 
To much granite in those clouds for me. Nice video.
 
These high accuracy RNP approaches are something else. A pilot's sure has to trust his FMS and autopilot.
 
Fascinating video! Having never been to New Zealand, I was also intrigued by the view.
I'm still wondering which instrument approach was being flown. It doesn't seem to match any approach plates I've found yet for Queenstown, including the set Tango Whisky so generously posted. The aircraft seems to have made a descending right turn into the clouds, out the bottom into VMC, northerly up the lake arm, and landed on RWY 05. Maybe it's been too many years (-twenty) since I've flown anything and have forgotten how to read an approach plate. :confused:
 
Beautiful video. I couldn't help noticing the object in the sky during the first minute or so and thought it might be Venus. Will have to go back and try to keep track of the changes in direction to see if it makes sense, though impossible to say once he went into the layer. Hard to pin down the exact angle of the sun too. If this was recently shot, it being spring down there, the present apparition of Venus should be a good one (quite lousy up here, low in the SW sky).
 
That's actually the easy approach, from the South over miles of lake. If you want to see an exciting approach, look at the VOR-B from the north.
 
WOW that was a great video!!!
 
Wobbly said:
Fascinating video! Having never been to New Zealand, I was also intrigued by the view.
I'm still wondering which instrument approach was being flown. It doesn't seem to match any approach plates I've found yet for Queenstown, including the set Tango Whisky so generously posted. The aircraft seems to have made a descending right turn into the clouds, out the bottom into VMC, northerly up the lake arm, and landed on RWY 05. Maybe it's been too many years (-twenty) since I've flown anything and have forgotten how to read an approach plate. :confused:
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Those plates I posted earlier are from 2010. Here's the current ones, direct from their equivalent of NOAA:

http://www.aip.net.nz/NavWalk.aspx?section=CHARTS&tree=Queenstown

I still have trouble making it match up for a Runway 05 approach with that descending right turn, but maybe what we were seeing at that point was vectors from ATC to join the approach near IBABU (IAF) on the RNAV RNP Y RWY 05 approach.
 
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TW, as you suggest, ATC vectors to join the approach at the IAF makes sense. Thanks!
 
Love it! Leslie and I spent about a week flying based just a short hop from there in Geordie Hill Station (http://www.flyinn.co.nz/geordie-hill-station/), but it was all VFR stuff. It's a wonderful flying destination!

(I just realized that my profile pic was taken in NZ too, at the Ninety-Nines conference there!)
 
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