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 requires DME (or a suitable substitute like GPS) for final approach fix identification and utilizes DME arcs from the Anchorage VOR, necessitating a switch to the ILS localizer for DME data.
- This approach publishes only ILS minimums, precluding its use for circling to land on another runway or if the glideslope were inoperative.
- The procedure includes both a primary and an alternate missed approach, which lead to the same holding fix but differ in the VOR and DME source used for identification.
- A feeder route from the Big Lake VOR (BGQ) to CARDD has specific limitations for certain northbound and northeast-bound arrivals due to required turn steepness.
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