Airport Briefing - LSZB Bern
Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2015 7:17 pm
Bern airport is medium size commercial airport in the northwestern side of the Swiss Alps just before the thick mountainous region starts rising.
It serves the capital of Switzerland Bern.
LSZB is home to a Rega (Swiss Air-Rescue) base, the Mountain Flyers and the Swiss Helicopter Group (former Heliswiss),
Briefing:
Bern LSZB airport has a steep ILS approach with at 4,00* degrees glide and is situated in between mountains and a built up city.
The 1.668ft. elevation airport has a 1.730m long runway surrounded closely by rising terrain in all quadrants confining aircraft movements in a small area and/or necessitating good climb out gradients.
Only instrument approach available is an 4,0 degrees glide ILS approach for Runway 14 from the northwest above the city. Runway 14 has also RNAV and non precision NDB approach.
For Runway 32 there is RPESCRIBED TRACKS procedure for visual circling appproach which takes you over built up areas without instruments guidance.
Runway 32
Runway 14
Apron
Read very carefully the ILS approach charts (link further down) and MISSED APPROACH procedure before executing the approach.
Charts:
http://www.vacc.ch/en/airports_and_charts/LSZB
Flight Plan Alternate: LSGG Geneva
FSĪ§ Scenery:
Freeware AFCAD
http://flyawaysimulation.com/downloads/ ... p-scenery/
Payware
http://www.flylogicsoftware.com/pi/Bern-Belp-X.html
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/wiki/Bern_Airport
It serves the capital of Switzerland Bern.
LSZB is home to a Rega (Swiss Air-Rescue) base, the Mountain Flyers and the Swiss Helicopter Group (former Heliswiss),
Briefing:
Bern LSZB airport has a steep ILS approach with at 4,00* degrees glide and is situated in between mountains and a built up city.
The 1.668ft. elevation airport has a 1.730m long runway surrounded closely by rising terrain in all quadrants confining aircraft movements in a small area and/or necessitating good climb out gradients.
Only instrument approach available is an 4,0 degrees glide ILS approach for Runway 14 from the northwest above the city. Runway 14 has also RNAV and non precision NDB approach.
For Runway 32 there is RPESCRIBED TRACKS procedure for visual circling appproach which takes you over built up areas without instruments guidance.
Runway 32
Runway 14
Apron
Read very carefully the ILS approach charts (link further down) and MISSED APPROACH procedure before executing the approach.
Charts:
http://www.vacc.ch/en/airports_and_charts/LSZB
Flight Plan Alternate: LSGG Geneva
FSĪ§ Scenery:
Freeware AFCAD
http://flyawaysimulation.com/downloads/ ... p-scenery/
Payware
http://www.flylogicsoftware.com/pi/Bern-Belp-X.html
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/wiki/Bern_Airport