Crosswinds, rugged terrain, and a bit of rain add to the thrill of landing at Queenstown for yet another incredibly challenging & scenic circle-to-land procedure.
For this video, we're flying the FSLabs A320 in Air New Zealand's 'all blacks' livery out of a gusty Wellington (NZWN) down to a windy rainy Queenstown (NZQN), where we'll forgo the RNP Y approach for the more challenging RNAV F with the circle-to-land visual to runway 5.
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0:00:00 Intro | flightplan & dep brief
0:09:10 Pushback & taxi out
0:17:15 Takeoff & climb
0:27:35 Descent | approach brief
0:44:05 RNAV F to NZQN
0:50:00 Circle-to-land runway 5
0:56:55 Chaseplane landing replays (external, tower, cabin views)
1:05:00 Taxi in and shutdown | Outro
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Interesting links:
Real cockpit video of this approach through the clouds: https://youtu.be/7mxmFCw-Dig
Aviation Week video on the new available RNP procedures: https://youtu.be/Yeo2gUoTO4Q
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Prepar3D v4 | Active Sky | ChasePlane
FSLabs A320 with FS2Crew
Flightbeam NZWN | Orbx NZ north & south | Orbx NZQN
Tomatoshade | R&D preset
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