Need PIREP Ohio's Burke Lakefront (KBKL)

It's my home airport, and yes, it's very nice.

The ILS approach to 24R works fine. Decision height is a little high at
300', and the middle marker has been decommissioned. IFR routing from
the south is usually (in my own experience) a fairly wide downwind south
of the airport with a 270 intercept to the 245 approach course. If
runway 6 is active, you'll be given a circle-to-land.

Watch Cleveland Hopkin's Class B airspace if you're VFR. You'll need to
approach from slightly east of south to stay under the 3000' shelf. The
1900' shelf from the south is tricky because of radio towers poking up
into it. There may be some into the 3000' shelf, I don't
remember--check the sectional carefully.

The barge-borne restaurant near Burke, Hornblowers, has been closed for
about two years. Buy it and reopen it if you want to do a service to
the flying community.

The Cod is the Gato-class WWII submarine moored nearby the airport.
It's an incredible tour, not yet open for the season. Word is that it's
the best restored museum boat out there, and the only one that has not
had its pressure hull cut into for tourist staircases. Tour tickets are
cheap, make an additional donation. The volunteers put in a lot of
hours keeping that thing open.

There are occasionally tall ships in harbor, mostly later in summer.
The steamship Mather is the large museum ore ship moored just to the
west. It's worth a tour.

If you're interested in classical music, make a point of hearing the
orchestra at Severance Hall. Hard to say why Cleveland, Ohio has one of
the world's great symphony orchestras, but there it is. Severance is a
wonderful hall, too.

Have a good trip to Cleveland!

David

Randy wrote:
Folks:

I've got to take a trip to BKL on Sunday...does anyone know how the
routing normally works for an IFR arrival in a 172 from the south? Or
any other things to be on the lookout for?

thanks