"Blanche" wrote in message =
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John R. Copeland wrote:
Adding another item -- The runways at the Santa Fe airport can be
fiendishly hard to see from a distance.
The pavement seems to blend in to the surrounding sand.
I'd suggest planning on an instrument approach regardless of weather.
=20
Nah...Come right over the SAF VOR, follow the straight line over
the prison and there you are.


Not meaning to pick nits, Blanche, but coming "right over the SAF"
isn't greatly different from the VOR Rwy 33 approach.
That's roughly the same as I suggested.
We eastern pilots can get unnerved by being unable to see a runway
ten miles away in 50-mile visibility.
I remember once telling the SAF tower I could see the airport,
but not the runway. :-[