If you enjoy watching airplanes, especially any of the quickly declining global fleet of jumbo jets, Muhammad Ali International—the old Standiford Field (KSDF)—in Louisville, Kentucky, is an excellent place. The home of UPS, KSDF offers the opportunity to see large Boeings—747s, 757s and 767s—as well as Airbus A300s and McDonnell Douglas MD-11s operating day and night. With slightly more than 175,000 takeoffs and landings annually, most of them air carrier, a light-aircraft pilot operating through KSDF needs to be alert on the ground and in the air for these wake-turbulence producers.
Louisville ILS or LOC Runway 17L
Key Takeaways:
- Pilots operating at KSDF, particularly when approaching Runway 17 Left, must maintain heightened awareness due to simultaneous parallel approaches and the potential for wake turbulence from heavy aircraft.
- Instrument approach procedures for Runway 17 Left include specific requirements such as RNAV 1-GPS for the missed approach, careful review of minimums (ILS vs. localizer-only), and awareness that DME will not read zero at the localizer-only Missed Approach Point.
- The missed approach procedure for Runway 17 Left requires an initial climb straight ahead to 1,600 feet before executing any turns towards the TORAC waypoint.
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