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:
- The ILS Runway 15 approach into PANC explicitly requires DME or a suitable substitute (like GPS) for final approach fix identification due to the absence of other standard markers.
- The procedure incorporates two DME arcs based on the Anchorage VOR (TED) for initial approach segments, with a crucial requirement to switch to the ILS localizer for DME data.
- Both a primary and an alternate missed approach procedure are published, leading to the same holding fix (JUKEP) but differing in the VOR/DME source used for identification.
- This approach only provides ILS minimums, meaning it cannot be flown as a non-precision localizer approach if the glideslope is inoperative, nor used for circling to land on other runways.
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