The four sets of APAPI lights provide greater accuracy for descent path and redundancy (in real airport) in case a light bulb needs replacement. This is how the real airport is, this is how we did it. Even though the official charts of Samos indicate one set of PAPI4 lights on each runway's side, the actual configuration in the real airport is of four sets of APAPI2 (abbreviated PAPI) lights left and right of each touch down zone for runways 09 and 27.
You can spot it in the Challenger 300 dusk approach 09 video documented below.
There is an approach lights system (ALS) for runway 09 which has worn in time and is partially visible in the real airport due to wear and vegetation grown around it. Technical Information ICAO: Latitude: Longitude: Elevation: Magnetic Variation: Fuel: Runway 09/27: Approaches: Frequencies: LGSM 37 41' 20'' N 26 54' 50'' E 19ft / 5.7m 04 E 100LL 2.044m x 45m Asphalt RWY09 VOR Approach RWY27 VOR Approach APP TWR ATIS P a g eĤ Runway Lights: Samos runway has some conventional runway edge and end lights. In the area, officially, it is still forbidden to snap photographs! With a new terminal completed in 2003, the airport nowadays not only serves many international and domestic flights but also hosts two Hellenic Air Force firefighting aircraft on standby during the summer at the dedicated east apron. That is the reason for the sparsely vegetated and cultivated area south of the airport which still has the remains of army posts and anti-invasion installations (not depicted in the scenery). At that time the relationship with Turkey was quite tense and the Greeks feared an invasion at the beaches south of the airport. The project was completed in 1971 and the airport was designated International category B with the ability to serve aircraft from abroad. In 1968 it was decided to expand and widen the existing runway in order to serve even bigger aircraft. The airport was first served three times a week by a Douglas DC-3 Dakota. In 1960 construction work started again, undertaken by the Air Force, which completed in On June 23, 1963, almost two decades since the project began, the brand new airport was inaugurated. The Samos Holy Diocese and its monasteries finally accepted a symbolic price for 500 acres of land from the Greek Government for the construction of the airport. The initially selected area for the new airport was not used due to a misunderstanding with the local residents for granting the land. The story of Samos Airport began when the Greek Government decided in 1935 to modernize the transportation infrastructure all over the country. Do you remember from school the Pythagorean theorem relating the lengths of the three sides of a right triangle? Well this is where it all happened 2,500 years ago by Pythagoras! Also an important antiquity very close to the airport, deep inside the Pythagorion hill - mentioned further down as a hazard to the airport approaches - is the Eupalinos Tunnel (underground aqueduct) dating also 2,500 years ago the first known underground tunnel to have been designed using geometry. General Information Samos International Airport (SMI / LGSM) is located 4 km west of the town Phytagorio, named after the locally born mathematician and philosopher Phytagoras. Are you ready to test your piloting skills? Let the journey begin! 2 P a g eģ 2.
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But Samos approaches are still at the top of my list as the most challenging and exciting!" - Giorgio La Pira, A380 Pilot (formerly A320 Examiner) These are only a few of the reasons why we have decided that this challenging and interesting airport would be the perfect addition to our Greek island series following Mykonos and Skiathos. I have operated for years into some really demanding airports such as Gibraltar, Innsbruck, Madeira, La Palma. It involves pure stick n rudder demanding hand-type of flying in between mountains, without navigation instruments guidance, moderate or higher turbulence due to terrain, the FIR border just on the airport s pattern and tight turns short before lining up for last stage of final approach to land. Copyrights Introduction Samos is the island airport with the most notorious landing approaches in Greece.
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