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Offline fulanito

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KEWR, runway 29 approach procedures?
« on: December 28, 2008, 23:49:09 UTC »
First of all, I'd like to say happy holidays to everyone, and wish everybody a happy new year! Now to my question though, I'm currently sitting at home in Jersey City, looking at the arrivals into KEWR throughout the window, and noticed that all of the arrivals (even some heavies) currently are landing on runway 29 due to heavy winds from the west. The thing that got me curious was that I couldn't find any charts for this approach, so if anyone could inform me of how the approach procedure looks like (or where I could find some charts for this particular runway), it would be greatly appreciated. Is the last phase of the approach done through vectoring or how does it work?   :| :mrgreen:
Kind regards
Alex



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Re: KEWR, runway 29 approach procedures?
« Reply #1 on: December 29, 2008, 00:04:24 UTC »
There is no IAP for Rwy 29.  I can only imagine that they are (were?) vectoring for visual approaches since conditions are VMC right now (7PM Sunday night).  Listening now, though, they seem to be on the 22's, even though the winds are still fiercely out of the west: 27024G30KT

-dave

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Re: KEWR, runway 29 approach procedures?
« Reply #2 on: December 29, 2008, 00:19:28 UTC »
Thanks for your quick response  :-) Yeah, they were just using runway 29  for about 10 minutes so it wasn't that long, but it was still quite interesting to see several aircrafts passing over my house before turning into final, quite an unusual sight at KEWR having runway 29 working as the "primary" landing runway. Thanks for the info
Alex

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Re: KEWR, runway 29 approach procedures?
« Reply #3 on: December 30, 2008, 19:14:03 UTC »
Do not forget that even when conducting an instrument approach, you do not necessarily have to land on the rwy with which the approach is aligned.  ILS RWY 22L, circle to rwy 29, baby!

SFO runs a similar procedure when they have howling northerlies in IMC...ILS 28L/R circle to 1L/R.