Airport Briefing - LSZS Samedan
Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2015 2:53 pm
Samedan LSZS airport in Switzerland is Europe's highest elevation airport (at 5,600 ft. AMSL) situated in a canyon of the Swiss Alps serving the luxurious vacations of St. Moritz.
This airport is a day, VMC conditions operations only with visual circling procedures.
In 2017 it got GNSS non precision instrument approaches down to 3.220 ft. AGL.
Weather Minima:
VISUAL APPROACH
Airport environment visual from 12.000 ft. AMSL
VISUAL DEPARTURE:
8km visibility - 2.200ft. AGL (7.800 AMSL) cloud base
INSTRUMENT APPROACH:
Refer to briefing PDF but basically the below minima should exist:
Rwy 03
Visibility 6.5km - Cloud bass 6.500 ft. AGL (12.100 AMSL)
Rwy 21
Visibility 5km - Cloud base 3.220ft. AGL (8.820 AMSL)
A demanding visual descent in to a canyon, in between steep rising terrain, is required to make the visual approaches for both runways with a steep 4.4* degrees final approach portion guided by the PAPI's.
Still, executive jets up to Boeing 737(BBJ) size approach the airport often in the winter peak season with these procedures.
Flightsimmers' visual approach Briefing:
LSZS - Samedan visual approach chart v3
VERY IMPORTANT information. Do not fly there without the briefing.
This is for the VISUAL approach.
For the Instrument RNAV(GNSS) approach approach see the post further down.
Flight Plan Alternate: LSZR Altenrhein
The approaches to runway 03 & 21 and their SIDs were tested with OAV Executive's B737 BBJ and they can be executed without problems.
FSΧ & P3D 11/2019 released Scenery:
https://orbxdirect.com/product/lszs
VACC Switzerland Data:
http://www.vacc.ch/en/airports_and_charts/LSZS
Other reference:
HvACC forum: Samedan LSZS Switzerland
This airport is a day, VMC conditions operations only with visual circling procedures.
In 2017 it got GNSS non precision instrument approaches down to 3.220 ft. AGL.
Weather Minima:
VISUAL APPROACH
Airport environment visual from 12.000 ft. AMSL
VISUAL DEPARTURE:
8km visibility - 2.200ft. AGL (7.800 AMSL) cloud base
INSTRUMENT APPROACH:
Refer to briefing PDF but basically the below minima should exist:
Rwy 03
Visibility 6.5km - Cloud bass 6.500 ft. AGL (12.100 AMSL)
Rwy 21
Visibility 5km - Cloud base 3.220ft. AGL (8.820 AMSL)
A demanding visual descent in to a canyon, in between steep rising terrain, is required to make the visual approaches for both runways with a steep 4.4* degrees final approach portion guided by the PAPI's.
Still, executive jets up to Boeing 737(BBJ) size approach the airport often in the winter peak season with these procedures.
Flightsimmers' visual approach Briefing:
LSZS - Samedan visual approach chart v3
VERY IMPORTANT information. Do not fly there without the briefing.
This is for the VISUAL approach.
For the Instrument RNAV(GNSS) approach approach see the post further down.
Flight Plan Alternate: LSZR Altenrhein
The approaches to runway 03 & 21 and their SIDs were tested with OAV Executive's B737 BBJ and they can be executed without problems.
FSΧ & P3D 11/2019 released Scenery:
https://orbxdirect.com/product/lszs
VACC Switzerland Data:
http://www.vacc.ch/en/airports_and_charts/LSZS
Other reference:
HvACC forum: Samedan LSZS Switzerland