Page 24 - Twin & Turbine May 2017

The 200-foot shing vessel Auriga at port in Dutch Harbor, Alaska. Similar to what is portrayed in Discovery Channel’s Deadliest Catch, the ship is used to sh the unyielding waters off the Aleutian Islands in the Bering Sea.
Signature Flight Support is located close to our exit point off runway 7L. Knowing that fuel at PADU is more expensive than at PANC, we request the tanks be topped at 6,000 pounds. Our other reason is that it is not uncommon to miss the approach at PADU, and that usually requires a deadhead all the way back to PANC, a location also known for weather at minimums. Leaving Anchorage for Dutch with legally minimum IFR fuel reserves is a very bad idea indeed.
Tanks full, we depart PANC and turn to the southwest. An hour and a half later we start our descent and begin reviewing the special approach procedure we will use at PADU. The standard published approaches do not allow a descent below 2,000 feet, and require visibility of at least 3 miles, conditions that rarely exist. So, we have approval for the special procedure to runway 31 that allows a descent to 500 feet while over salt water at DAWKU, which is still 5 miles from the airport, and then on a path 112 degrees off the runway heading.
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