So I went to Lukla airport and had live weather turned to on. It was foggy so I tried a takeoff and landing only using the Synthetic vision on the Garmin avionics. It’s kind of fun! Has anyone else tried this at Lukla? Here’s the video: https://youtu.be/RPADmlGDfXE
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synthetic vision can’t be used for an instrument approach.
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Tenzing-Hillary Airport only has visual procedures.
Bummers! I was getting excited for a second there…
You landed better than I do in VFR! Try also turning on isolines. But definitively NOT in real life!!!
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Yeah, this is definitely one of those simulation only flying techniques. 
For some reason this does not surprise me.
Agree! …the most frightening part was the 180° turn in the blind! I remember a video from a private jet that was flying amongst mountains with GPS. At a certain point the tip of the right wing hit for some millimeters a rock… they survived just for a miracle! But was a real video!
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That sounds scary.
Maybe was this, but I remember something more clear
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“We have a handleld gps. We’ll be fine.” 
I can guarantee you that was the last time they ever tried this.