Despite a falloff in world air traffic since early 2020, Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport (PANC) in Alaska still represents a stopover point for thousands of airline and business-aviation flights between North America and Asia, as well as thousands of local general aviation and military airplanes. Visitors will notice that many of those local GA aircraft are mounted on floats, so they can freely move between PANC and the nearby Lake Hood Seaplane Base. About the terrain transient pilots can expect, city-data.com says: “The Chugach Mountains to the east have a general elevation of 4,000 to 5,000 feet, with peaks from 8,000 to 10,000 feet. These mountains block warm air from the Gulf of Mexico, keeping precipitation relatively low.”
Anchorage ILS Runway 15
Key Takeaways:
- DME (or a suitable substitute like GPS) is explicitly required to fly the ILS Runway 15 approach into Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport (PANC).
- The procedure involves DME arcs from the Anchorage VOR (TED) to intercept the localizer, requiring pilots to carefully switch from VOR-based DME to ILS localizer DME data.
- Two distinct missed approach procedures are published, both leading to the JUKEP holding fix, but differing in the VOR/DME source used (either TED or Kenai VOR).
- Only ILS minimums are published for this approach, meaning it cannot be flown as a non-precision (localizer-only) approach or used for circling to land on another runway.
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