On a recent LightHawk flight, we were approaching Willow Run, Michigan, just before sunset. The weather was clear enough for a visual approach to 23, but with the hour and the abundance of airports we hadn’t seen before, we thought it would be a good idea to utilize the RNAV 23 to make sure we were landing at the airport where we intended to land.
Us: “Detroit Approach, Citation 77E. We’re unfamiliar. Request vectors to the RNAV 23.”
Detroit Approach: “Citation 77E, that’s a real long way. You’d be very familiar by the time you landed. How about vectors to final instead?” We accepted.
Gabrielle Adelman
Watsonville, California
That might be an important difference. Coin flip, anyone?
Huh? The entire approach is 15 miles. I don’t get it.