On 8 Jan 2004 08:21:53 -0800 (lance smith) wrote:

Even though I'm just VFR I've been there many times and 100 OVC is
dangerously low. AVX is on the top of two mountains (they chopped of
both tops and filled in the gap between) and cloud conditions can
change minute by minute. No runway lighting, a cliff on each end, and
mountains to the south.

airnav has a nice picture of 22 on final AVX:
http://www.airnav.com/airport/KAVX

An interesting depiction looking east:

http://www.micheloud.com/FXM/Flying/Catalina.htm



A tragedy, but they should have known better.

It's tempting to reach a conclusion without all the data but
I think it's possible that something else went wrong.


R. Hubbell


-lance smith

(Ron Lee) wrote in message ...
Reported ceiling at 100' AGL. My limited understanding of VOR type
approaches is that the MDA is in the order of 400-500' AGL.

Why even attempt the approach or at least be ready to execute the
missed approach.

Ron Lee