Have you ever flown into Midway? The approach is pretty scary.
>>Have you ever flown into Midway? The approach is pretty scary.<<
The approach is pretty normal, but the airport is an X crammed into a box with city streets and low buildings on all sides. It is like landing in a hole, and especially looks like it at night.
http://www.naco.faa.gov/d-tpp/0513/00081AD.PDF
ILS to 31C
http://www.naco.faa.gov/d-tpp/0513/00081ILD31C.PDF
Operating in/out of MDW is a lot less scary than say Reagan. See the River Visual approach into Reagan (DCA) runway 19.
http://www.naco.faa.gov/d-tpp/0513/00443RIVER_VIS19.PDF
Or worse, Jackson Hole, WY, where the clouds have rocks in them:
http://www.naco.faa.gov/d-tpp/0513/00504IL19.PDF
<< Have you ever flown into Midway? The approach is pretty scary. >>
Only for some.
Unfortunately, in this case, two of them were the low-bidders/quota hires in the Southwest pilot costumes who were occupying the seats in the pointy bit at the front of the aeroplane.
The seats, that is, that in the good old days, before pc beancounters ran airlines, were reserved for pilots.