Jim Carter wrote:


-----Original Message-----
From: Sam Spade ]
Posted At: Saturday, August 05, 2006 6:19 PM
Posted To: rec.aviation.ifr
Conversation: Help understanding Aspen VOR/DME approach
Subject: Help understanding Aspen VOR/DME approach



At Aspen, circling around the airport is very risky business.


No kidding!! Isn't that why we all learned steep-turns-about-a-point?
Even the 360-overhead would be thrilling at Aspen.

If a pilot is going to do those types of maneuvers at Aspen, then he or
she better have the right airplance and be very familiar with the airport.

Those two factors always greatly improve the safety margin. But, that
becomes, more or less, a special-qualification circumstance, as opposed
to "plain old TERPS."