Airport Briefing - LIMW Aosta

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Airport Briefing - LIMW Aosta

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Aosta airport is south of Europe's highest peak, Mont Blanc the border of Italy with Switzerland and France. Nearest French ski resort is Chamonix situated Mont Blanc's footings.

Just abeam the airport runway highway E25(A5 locally) passes to lead to one of the most strategic European road tunnels, the 15km long Mont Blanc tunnel, deep inside Europe's highest mountain, exiting in Chamonix France after which it connects North Italy (Turin, Milan) with Geneva Switzerland and the rest of west-central Europe.

Briefing:
Aosta LIMW airport has an offset IGS (LOC/GS/DME) approach with at 5,00* degrees descent and is situated in a narrow east-west valley surrounded by dangerous mountains.

The 1.775 ft. elevation airport has a 1.499m long runway surrounded closely by high rising mountains north and south confining aircraft movements in an east west "corridor".
Only instrument approach available is an 5 degree offset IGS approach for Runway 27 (runway 264* - Localizer 268*) from east.

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Read very carefully the IGS approach charts (link further down) and MISSED APPROACH procedure before executing them.

Charts:
VACC Italy
http://www.vatita.net/drupal/charts

APPROACH PROCEDURE in practice:
Runway 27
Arrivals bring you via SRN or TOP VORs from SOUTH or EAST respectively to BLA VOR which is the IAF.
After leaving BLA at FL150 you proceed northwest to SVC NDB above 10.000ft high mountains to catch the IAOS IGA LOCalizer & Glideslope at 14 DME at 9.400ft AMSL with parallel guidance from the missed approach SCS VOR (situated just west of the airport) not to cross its 081* radial as protection from terrain to the north. SCS VOR R081 needs to be set to NAV2 as a parallel guidance of a radial to never cross regardless of the IGS localizer.
Steep 5,0* glideslope descent is then followed on the LOC until DA of 3.900ft AMSL (2.125 ft AAL).
Once visual you continue with the double left & right PAPIs which are set at 5,0* degrees glide.

Runway 09 is approached only visually with CIRCLING approach WEST of the airport by breaking off the IGS approach but there is no published procedure for this due to terrain abeam of the airport.

Flight Plan Alternate: LIML Milan Linate

Approaching runway 27 IGS at night (with UTX Europe v2 night lights)
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FSΧ Scenery:
Freeware
http://www.vvtorino.it/public/root/download.php?list.5

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BONUS:
From LIMW you will find an amazing sloped runway dirt strip ALTIPORT called CHAMOIS (Fictional ICAO: LIM2 ) 5,800ft up on a high pitch mountain slope.
The strip is located 12nm bearing 060 from LIMW but you can't fly straight there.
Access is only via the Aosta valley flying east and and then turning north at the proper entry.
The rest is for you to find out !
Make sure you take a light single engine aircraft to fly there with approach speeds less than 80Kts.
Chamois scenery DOWNLOAD:
http://www.vf-air.com/FSX2.htm
By Guy Nemoz in "4) ITALIE" area.

If you have no detailed mesh terrain for the area, highly recommended are the following freeware:

Priority ABOVE
Mesh Alpes LOD11 v2 by Guy Nemoz
At bottom of http://www.vf-air.com/mesh.htm

Priority LOWER
Srtm3 Version 2 Mesh Europe by Raimondo Taburet
http://simviation.com//fsx_terrainmesh.htm


Other reference:
Real Airport http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?tit ... ey_Airport
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