Hi guys,At Nice airport (LFMN), landing on runway 04L is Visual 04L, VOR 04L or ILS 04L. When the weather is clear, the commercial planes coming from AMFOU and LUC STARs usually follow the visual approach. However, Jeppesen and French ATC charts do not explain how to perform this approach from the STARs. Only VOR and ILS are fully described. What the pilots do is a kind of mix between ILS and VOR approaches: they start as if they where making an ILS landing, and when the plane flies over the small island of Saint-Honorat, they turn right to the East to avoid Cap d'Antibes. From here they intercept CGS radial 176 (see picture enclosed). Does anyone know if this procedure is documented somewhere? Has anybody tried it in real life?Regards,Chris Sandel

Hi guys,At Nice airport (LFMN), landing on runway 04L is Visual 04L, VOR 04L or ILS 04L. When the weather is clear, the commercial planes coming from AMFOU and LUC STARs usually follow the visual approach. However, Jeppesen and French ATC charts do not explain how to perform this approach from the STARs. Only VOR and ILS are fully described. What the pilots do is a kind of mix between ILS and VOR approaches: they start as if they where making an ILS landing, and when the plane flies over the small island of Saint-Honorat, they turn right to the East to avoid Cap d'Antibes. From here they intercept CGS radial 176 (see picture enclosed). Does anyone know if this procedure is documented somewhere? Has anybody tried it in real life?Regards,Chris Sandel

Hello Chris,I live just over the runways of LFMN and i spent a lot of time on real frequencies.At LFMN when weather is ok, approximately 50-60 % of the arrivals ask for a visual approach and even if they don't ask, the controller ask them :"Do u request visual approach ?"But the track followed by the aircrafts on visual arrival is a bit different from the one on your picture.In fact, after MUS, aircrafts are vectored for an heading of 090