IFR then VFR back to KPAO

Yeah, I thought about this, and having done a lot of hangar flying in
the various flying club lounges at PAO, I've never heard of anyone
doing this. I'd bet it's off limits. And the vectoring would likely be
the same.

Actually, it's not quite clear to me why they're so willing to give the
PAO GPS approach and not the VOR/DME. They're both in the "same general
area." The VOR/DME obviously, is based on the SJC VOR, but with radar
vectors to the FAC rather than a flyover of the VOR I don't see why it
has to be so much more disruptive to SJC traffic as the PAO.

It's just one of those unknowables.

By the way, are the Moffett approaches in the NOS approach books? If
so, why? They are not in the Jepps.

PS -- It would be a truly lovely thing if Moffett were open to GA.
Imagine being able to rent a tiedown without being on a multi-year
waiting list!

-- dave j

As for getting cleared into
Moffett, umm, you might have a better chance at getting an approach
into Nellis or Beale (NOT!). Maybe I'm wrong though. Also if you
get an approach into Moffett, they will still have to vector you
all around the bay area.

wrote:
....
PS -- It would be a truly lovely thing if Moffett were open to GA.
Imagine being able to rent a tiedown without being on a multi-year
waiting list!

Let us not hold our breath. Last I knew, not only the feds but the
adjacent cities of Mountain View and Sunnyvale were dead-set against it.

As for pop-up approaches into PAO, might as well try for a pop-up into
SJC, cancel IFR, and scud-run across the top of Moffett (the de-facto
PAO approach for years).


--
Weav PP ASEL IA about 10 years uncurrent