LOWI, PAJN, and SBRJ. LOWI (Innsbruck) is hard because of the terrain, PAJN (Juneau) is VERY hard because of the sharp turn towards final as you have to avoid mountains, etc., and SBRJ is hard because you have to avoid the mountains.

The trick is to be on final approach speed before reaching CALDO. After that, a steep (6.65^o) descent on the ILS . I had to use the speedbrakes all the way down to the RW. Succeeded the 2^e time.

Thanks Joost, I had actually managed a moderately successful landing since my post. So at PINIK flaps 30 and gear down. After CALDO I pretended I was a WW2 kamikaze pilot, getting way under the GS until about a mile out, to get my speed down from 200kts or so. Not a bad result even though I forgot to set the auto brakes in all the excitment. My passengers are now being treated for PTSD.

Thanks Joost, I had actually managed a moderately successful landing since my post. So at PINIK flaps 30 and gear down. After CALDO I pretended I was a WW2 kamikaze pilot, getting way under the GS until about a mile out, to get my speed down from 200kts or so. Not a bad result even though I forgot to set the auto brakes in all the excitment. My passengers are now being treated for PTSD.

Haha. Maybe they should build an option into fspax so that our pax can be treated by a shrink after we, pc pilots, slammed the NGX onto the tarmac.Remember, "Any landing you walk away from is a good landing."

Tegucigalpa is very difficult for me, too.But, I have difficulties with all non more-or-less-straight approaches. Why? It's because of the lack of peripheral vision. Even in the VC, I don't get the vision I'd need to fly all those great curved approaches well. I bet that if I were in a real plane, Tegucigalpa, Innsbruck, Santos Dumont,... wouldn't give me that much of a problem! It's a "simulator restriction" - in the sim, that's what I'm very convinced of, this lack of peripheral vision and the lack of movement sensation make landings a good factor more difficult than they would be in real life. I bet.

What you need is Track IR, that would help a lot.Wycliffe

LPMA by night... HOT !Regards,Richard Portier

First try at MHTG: epic fail. :( 140kts, NGX 900, rolled off the runway lol.

SBRJ in Rio de Janeiro is hard and fun because of short runway (1342 m), sharp turn on final and terrain. Runway 02R is harder, but 20L is also fun. If you want to try it, here is the chart that is normally used by ATC. More charts here.For runway 20L cross above the airport and then turn left to circle to land without exceeding 1 nm to the north of the bridge Rio - Niteroi. Video

.For runway 02R, turn right at DINA and then circle to land completely on visual, turning left over the Botafogo beach finishing the turn at 500 ft. It is specially hard on Flight Simulator with single monitor since you don't seen the mountains beside you or the runway position while you turn. Video

.Try it with the GOL 800 SFP coming from SBSP, one of busiest routes in Latin America.Pedro Espindola

Great videos. That's a short runway there at SBRJ isn't it :)FSX does not model slowing speeds accurately IMO..Even in the NGX it seems to stop very fast..Meaning that in FSX you can actually pull off landing at fields you couldn't do in RL..is this real? Can NG's stop that quickly/ He certainly nearly ran out of tarmac there and that was dry and hot!bestjake

ENGM manually flown CATIII at RVR=400m and cloud base of 180ft at pitch black night, at these conditions it is realy easy to get disorientated when it feels like the plane is climbing at a VS of -900ft/min.

Jake Eyre, you're right, FSX does not model braking correctly.In real life, pilots will use auto-brakes max for landing in SBRJ and deactivate it as soon as the plane touches the runway and they see it was a clean safe landing, braking manually.In FSX, though, there's absolutelly no way you can stop a 737-800 SFP using a button or key for brakes, even if you land on threshold, so I just use auto-brakes. I don't know if using a controller you can have a better performance.

Jake: a typical 700NG on landing will stop on 700 meters, if need be. Of course for planning you have to count with worst options for the sake of safety, so legal runway has to be way longer. And once it is there, it is game. There is little point of braking so hard if you have another kilometer in front of you.

Hate to flog a dead topic, but I have to say, LOWI VFR to 08 from the east has to be the most challenging approach i've made so far after having completed it for my first time. Once I get comfortable with it, I will move onto MHTG. That turn to finals looks lethal. :sAshley Frew.

Great videos. That's a short runway there at SBRJ isn't it :)FSX does not model slowing speeds accurately IMO..Even in the NGX it seems to stop very fast..Meaning that in FSX you can actually pull off landing at fields you couldn't do in RL..is this real? Can NG's stop that quickly/ He certainly nearly ran out of tarmac there and that was dry and hot!bestjake

Jake, going off topic but saw your "New Rig Alert" and was interested on your decision since the IB is coming soon. I'm researching myself but looking at Q4 depending on financials. And, have you tried LSZA - perhaps in a 67? I haven't tried SBRJ yet btw....one day.

I love Quito, not only a tough approach but so high up! LOWI also great. I'll probably get the LatinVRF scenery for MHTG and check it out next week. Simmarket has a Dangerous Airports bundle with 3 fun C. American airports. 2 of them are AES enabled.

I've never heard of MHTG before but all the above comments made me more than interested! I did a research online and found there's a nice payware scenery of the airport, gonna buy it tomorrow. Wanted to buy it and fly the approach tonight but - goddamnit - I have to go to the bank first which is obiously closed (it's almost 10 PM in EIDW where I live). So, I've booked the captain's seat for a virtual Delta Airlines KATL-MHTG for tomorrow, I am gonna fly the route according to the Delta Airlines timetable, and using the realworld aircraft they currently use on the route, a 737-700. I'm sooo excited, now off to collect all the necessary charts:-)