Challenging approach Tegucigalpa, Honduras

This is a fun RNAV approach. Tegucigalpa South RNAV/RNP 02.

Due to terrain, the approach is a continuous descending circle (turning through about 270 degrees) then there is a hard 90 degree left to land on 02.

Charts: https://ww2.jeppesen.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/MHTG.pdf

Apparently at one point this was considered the second most dangerous approach in the world.

[I nailed it in the Beechcraft Baron just now in heavy IMC, but I wouldn’t want to try to do this in an airliner! Or in the real world, tbh! White knuckles on the yoke!]

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