Curious Approach Question.

[chris1060]

I was flying from Anchorage Intl to Juneau Intl in Alaska and during approach to Juneau ATC gave me visual runway 26 to land. I checked the options to select another runway for landing and it gave an LDA Runway 26 approach. Just curious what LDA meant, never saw it before. Thanks.

[Brett_Henderson]

It's a type of non-precision approach.. localizer only (no glideslope) that is not  aligned with the runway (normally because of an obstacle).

It will get you close enough to make an adjustment, visually..

[BFMF]

Funny you should bring this up.

I was flying a twin prop from Anchorage to Juneau yesterday on an IFR flightplan, and the tower wanted me to automatically fly the visual approach, but I requested the LDA approach, grabbed the LDA Runway 8 approach chart and flew that instead.

...And at the moment, i'm flying back up to Anchorage