North Pole Approach Plate

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For anyone thinking of visiting Santa's workshop.

Happy Holidays!
 

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For some reason that attachment won't open for me. It looks vaguely familiar though... :thumbsup:
 
Nice approach plate!

Happy Festivus!
 
I love it.
"Caution deer in traffic pattern"
 
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And all the feeder routes are heading 360T, or the note "approach may intersect the runway at any angle"
 
And all the feeder routes are heading 360T, or the note "approach may intersect the runway at any angle"
That's one heck of an NDB if you can use it to nav from Sydney to the NP!
 
That's one heck of an NDB if you can use it to nav from Sydney to the NP!

If you listen to it on the radio it plays Christmas carols 24/7/365.
 
This plate was obviously created by an Icelander (BI and Reykjavik approach!)

Everyone knows the North Pole is Canadian! It should be a "CY" airport and "Alert Approach"...although HO is not taken so maybe a code of HOHO:D
 
It's a BMP. Here it is as a JPG, which should open more readily.

Shouldn't the first half of the runway be 36 and the second half 18?
 

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Shouldn't the first half of the runway be 36 and the second half 18?

Thought experiment...remember at high latitudes, you use true rather than magnetic.

If you touch down on a runway that runs through the pole, at each end, what is your true course at touchdown?
 
Would a magnetic compass act like a CDI over the North Pole? Cone of confusion and all?
 
Thought experiment...remember at high latitudes, you use true rather than magnetic.

If you touch down on a runway that runs through the pole, at each end, what is your true course at touchdown?

But the heading will switch at the halfway point...you were cleared to land 36 but yer rollin' out on 18, how's that gonna look to the FSDO when there's an incursion?
 
But the heading will switch at the halfway point...you were cleared to land 36 but yer rollin' out on 18, how's that gonna look to the FSDO when there's an incursion?

Where else can a 747 make a 180 degree turn on a dime on rollout?:rofl:
 
It's a BMP. Here it is as a JPG, which should open more readily.

Shouldn't the first half of the runway be 36 and the second half 18?

No, if the center of the runway is the pole both ends are runway 36.
 
Thought experiment...remember at high latitudes, you use true rather than magnetic.

If you touch down on a runway that runs through the pole, at each end, what is your true course at touchdown?

Three six zero.
 
No, if the center of the runway is the pole both ends are runway 36.

His point was that halfway through the runway the runway turns from 36 into 18, heading the same direction.
 
It's a BMP. Here it is as a JPG, which should open more readily.

Shouldn't the first half of the runway be 36 and the second half 18?

Thanks Grant, I should have thought of changing it to a .jpg before I posted it. :)

I was trying to post it as a full size graphic but I couldn't find a way to do that.
 
His point was that halfway through the runway the runway turns from 36 into 18, heading the same direction.

No doubt, but as runway designations are determined from the approach direction both ends would be 36.
 
I'm just wondering why the MSA is 1000'. Nothing grows on the ice cap.
 
Thanks Grant, I should have thought of changing it to a .jpg before I posted it. :)

Just out of curiosity where did you find it as a 1MB bmp? It started life as a 163K jpg in the first place.

I was trying to post it as a full size graphic but I couldn't find a way to do that.

After you've uploaded a graphic, open it from the attachment manager. That opens a new browser window which gives you the full URL of the attachment. You can copy/paste that URL into the "Insert Image" dialog.
 
Runway designations are determined from the approach direction. It doesn't matter how far you float.

But that wasn't the question Bub. The question was about the course on touchdown.
 
But that wasn't the question Bub. The question was about the course on touchdown.

The original question was:

If you touch down on a runway that runs through the pole, at each end, what is your true course at touchdown?


For any competent pilot it will be 360.


But what if the touchdown is on the second half of the runway?


A competent pilot won't touchdown in the second half of the runway.
 
You've obviously never landed on 19 at KSAW before the construction.

Yeah, with 12,000+ feet of runway, I could see landing way past halfway down, unless I really wanted taxi practice.


Trapper John
 
How is that obvious to you?

Because a competant pilot *would* touchdown more than halfway down on 19. Why? Because the GA terminal is at the south end of the field, along with the fuel pumps. Yeah, I'm going to touchdown on the numbers on 19, and then taxi for a mile and a half to the fuel pumps. Maybe if I'm a moron. I didn't even pull the power until OVER the numbers at TPA last time I landed 19.
 
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