Originally Posted by
gringo
Any approach in Africa during IMC. (Self directed approaches are fun!)
Meigs Field (before that a-hole destroyed it). Especially at night, coming in from the East, over the water.
ILS28 at KORD, on a clear night. The view from the left seat has always been my favorite.
Kabul, Khandahar, Bastion. At night. Lights out until about 50'. TCAS alerts from all the UAV's and other friendlies all the way in. Sometimes, fireworks.
Pretty much any airport in the CIS. Like Africa, but in meters and with heavy Russian accent comrade.
MIA ILS09 dodging thunderstorms and Eagle bug smashers.
I'll piggy back on the Afghanistan approaches, especially going into Bastian and Salerno.
Ever been to Manas (Bishkek)? Dropped into there one night, thankfully during VMC, when the controller forgot we were at 8000 feet and 10 miles from the field when a squeaky, broken English, female controller states, "ReachXX, let us know when established on Localizer." We didn't get vectors or anything. We requested a 360 to get down and established and on short final, my copilot...who was also my boss, states,"Hey sweetheart, can you put your dad on the radios?". We all laughed while there was no response from her.
The Russian chick who worked the baseops there was smoking' as well!