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 at Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport (PANC) explicitly requires DME (or a suitable substitute like GPS) for final approach fix identification.
- The procedure utilizes two DME arcs based on the Anchorage VOR (TED) for initial approach, demanding pilots switch DME data reliance to the ILS localizer upon intercept.
- Two distinct missed approach procedures are provided, both leading to the JUKEP holding fix but differing in the VOR/DME source (Anchorage VOR or Kenai VOR) used for navigation.
- 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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