There are some modifications and tips I recommend based on watching some real-world videos and having tried it in the sim myself: - Ignore the 11500ft restriction when skimming the side of the forge, and aim to be at around 9500-9700ft when starting the turn. - Complete the turn at 8500-8700ft. - 30 degrees of bank is enough. Any higher and you may get bank angle warnings - Begin the S-shaped turn at around 500-600ft radio and level off at around a 165-170deg heading. I find that these are much closer to what I've seen in real-world videos and it gives me much more reasonable decent rates (no more than 1200ft/min at any stage). P.S. there aren't any written procedures on this approach that I can find. I think it's one of those things where each pilot has his/her own way of doing it and they get this from simulator training or from watching the captain do it for years in the right seat.

After 10 years we still refer your video for PARO approach even a seasoned Pilot needs a Briefing oncourse to Paro lol !

Amazing! Every part of it! Both the briefing and the maneuver were amazing!

No other word....Superb! May 2017, and this is still the best tutorial for landing at Paro. Thank you, have subbed.

absolutely loved the video , thanks for the awesome briefing explanation , very good job explaining :)

What an incredible approach and landing - we could feel that you are truly relaxed when you maneuver through those highly dangerous turns before touch down. Great Inspiration for learners.

Absolutely an amazing tutorial. Thank you so much.. Keep on posting please.

Nice briefing, Nice approach and landing...You nailed it!

Wow! Excellent approach! Love your videos, keep them coming.

Thanks for the reply, very much appreciated. I really like all you videos. Quite informative.

Best approach Tutorials on KZfaq!

Been trying to find this approach for Paro .. didn't expect such an awesome video .. thanks!

Superb clips - thanks for making and posting.

Great! Thanks for the video. I can't wait doing this at home ;-)

Awesome .. thank you - I look forward to the flight test..

WOW! I really liked the way you showed us everything! I subbed!

Outstanding!

Now i will think twice before going to bhutan!! lol!!.Very good briefing!!

This is a very good video. Thanks!

excellent analysis!

this is a very extraordinary and superb video.

thanks for creating this tutorial!

fantastic production of the video i have subbed to your channel thank you for the video.

Great video!

Excellent video again...been hooked to this channel since i saw the way you have mastered the MHTG RNAV 02 apch...BTW IRL DrukAir flies A319s to this airport!

Very informative GVad , many thanks

Very cool, good job :). Trying to learn how to use VORs and read approach charts so your videos are really useful.

hey man your one heck of a skilled pilot. Nice videos and many thanks for the tips you give :)

great video man.

Great work!

I've never flown an airliner in real life. And baring some miracle where both pilots get sick and I'm the only pilot left in a airliner I never will, LOL. Then I look at the bright side, flying airliners is a job, you fly whether you want to or not and you go where you are scheduled. Someone like myself will rent a plane (usually with my best buddy who flies a 747) and I'll go where my heart takes me :) Wind under the wing is the same for a Piper or Cessna as it is for a 747

Very well explained and executed. Thanks. ..

Old as this vid is, it's still great info. Just HAD to hit the like button, as it was on 999likes and 1k now lol.

Super awesome. As always. Tanks FSX404...

Hello Genc I am speechless !! You are a super talented pilot. "dam good" excuse my language :) :) These videos are awesome. These I learned a lot from. So thank you for the good video series.

thx for the approach tutorial, mate, i always want to do this approach......................this is a very crazy approach.....................i think it supposed to be in the 10 most dangerous airports list

Nice video! Some "What if" - questions ;-) What about the missed approach? On your Jepp plates it's to the North for RWY33. What if you loose Nr 2 engine just before the 270º turn? Are you gonna turn into a death engine with 135kt and 30-40º AOB? Or is there an escape route out of that valley? What if 15kt tailwind? Any option for a circling towards RWY 33? Straight In RWY 33 possible? What are the diversion airfields in the neighborhood? Do you also have a video of the take-off? (both RWY's feasible?) Nice tutorial though!

great work

Man, that's insane!

respect man!!!

One of my favourite airfields/locations. Did you slow it down a bit?

An excellent presentation!! Thank you!! Any chance we may also see a similar briefing and flight for approaching the 33? With appreciation and gratitude.

Thanks to your tutorial I managed to land at Paro! Have you tried the Boeing B737 test flight demo route?

Do the landing on to the runway 33 need to follow the valley all the way down to the runway? By the way, good tutorial, I've kept this as a reference already!

Great videos, everyone. My question to you is, what was you're final flap setting at TD? Thanks....

A fantastic tutorial 404, this was exactly what i was looking for to shoot this challenging approach. i was getting bored of innsbruck via ils and vfr. what scenery are you using? it sure dosent look like the stock scenery that comes with fsx.

Gvad The Pilot two questions 1 with a dash 8 should the gear be down before the 35 degree turn ? 2 I found that if I approach at 9500 feet im to high for the runway I had to be about 8700 feet max after the turn why is that? is it different in fs2004 vs fsx?

great!!!!

Hi Genc, Its really beautiful to see this approach, by the way i need a favor to know the link for scenery for the Paro which you have used, since i have purchased some paywares but they are not as fine as in your video so?

Superb flying not to mention the clarity of the briefing.. wonder whether you have done another using the RNAV approach to 15 or 33? Excellent thank you.

you are superb _____________!

Good job!!! Where do you get the flight chart?

Unfortunately FSX has the elevation mesh wrong. There is no steep hill to the direct left of the airport.

awesome dude ... best fsx video i have ever watched .. :) (Y)

If I'm flying an ATR-72 for the approach, I can fly at a lower speed and a gentler bank when doing the 240-degree turn to the final right? Thanks for this helpful video! I've been looking for this approach proceedure for years!

Great landing

Nice vid, where did you get the scenery?

Thank you

I personally use 40 deg of flaps for a 737, but that is not always the case. Friends of mine who fly an actual 737-800 are reluctant to put more than 25 deg of flaps on landings because it slows the plane down too much and makes the plane sink like a rock. They only use 40 deg of flaps on shorter runways in a 737-800. In the end it is up to the pilots in command to decide what flap setting he/she wants to use.

Great job well done! But 135kts in a 737-700 at 7300ft? What was your payload and fuel quantity?

Wow!

Hi, So, the VOR is where I disengage the autopilot if I'm using it?

Yes I do have third party scenery for Paro, I cant remember which, it should be in the description. However, I use FS9, not FSX. FSX frame rate is too slow even with some good computers. You cant help it. Either get a very powerful computer or change to FS9.

Disengaging the autopilot depends on two things. 1. Company rules. Each airline company has their rules when a pilot must use the autopilot. 2. Pilots decision. As long as you comply with your company's rules on autopilot use, it is up to the pilot to decide when to disengage the autopilot. I personally disengage the autopilot (in the flight sim) any time I'm below 18,000 feet because I like to fly manually.

Thanx does the airbus X have this feature?

@FlyUPS767 on an ILS approach you focus on keeping the GS needle centered & it will take you to the runway threshold, on a visual approach the weather needs to be good enough for you to be able to judge the descent visually (what you said), you can only go full visual when you see the runway

Amazing FSX just Amazing !

is this approach out of date? in xp11 the airport is lot more closer to the mountain, no room for s turn

Do we have to activate sumthing ? for 1000,feet 200, 50,10, which the computer say at the final!?/ please help

muito bom amigo vc ta de paranbens sempre acompanho seu videos

I had been to Bhutan in 2012, 2013. Though scary landing and takeoff, I enjoyed it being ex aviation professional

Cool video! But as you can see in real approaches to rwy 15, its threshold is located much "earlier", i.e. much closer to the mountain slope, so the only way to get to the runway course and not to hit the slope is to complete left final turn just before the flare. To have this realistic terrain I use Paro Addon by Thai Creation.

nice vid. i wonder if drukair pilots perform night landing at vqpr

This is an excellent video. Any chance you would do a similar one for OPGT?

Where do you get the approach and landing charts?

That is a different procedure if you want to do it properly, there has to be a transition from instrument flying to visual flying, you cant just wing it. Meaning there is a final instrument point, and initial visual entry point and procedure. I doubt that it is published anywhere by I can usually figure it out, all I need is good 3 frames from a actual video.

Nice!! Gonna try it soon!! Although mine is fsx

thanks to your info. I did this approach with PMDG´s 777 lol curse no payload and only requierd fuel

If I understand you correctly, you are asking if there are pre-made missions for FSX to fly into these airports? To my knowledge there aren't such missions, but it wouldn't surprise me if one of the computer whizes made them on his/her own.

Very good briefing sir

You can glance at it, but it really it is more experience. You know almost by instinct f you are high or low. 1500 fpm is standard for a descent except when on final, at which point it can be 700-1000 fpm. These are just guidelines, you have to be able to adapt as you go. Experience is the key. When you've done 2000 landings, you really don't need a PAPI to tell you where you are on the approach, you should know.

what scenery is this?

Like a Boss! Nice job man!

Hi, Genc I have seen that all of the scenery files and add on you are using i have the same but my computer is performing fine. I am using SONY VAIO, Windows 7 64bits, intel core i7 second generation, 8GB RAM but i never found it comfortable to give me good results. Therefore kindly let me that what system and what configurations you are using.

Hi GVad, amazing video. I start to practice this approach yesterday but when I planned my route in PFPX, it didn't have "TAKTI" intersection in it, just from BOGOP straight to VOR PRO. Should I add the TAKTI between manually or is it just due to navdata cycle update? Thank you

Where were you flying from?

It's portuguese. He said "well done buddy, congratulations! I always watch your videos"

holy crap, that was awesome, u have mesh addon?

Whose scenery and for which FS?

the file is 120 MB, I can't send it over email

Just out of curiosity, why did you say "MSFS Only" at the start of the video? I have made a number of successful approaches into VQPR with this video as my guide in X-Plane 10.

Congratulations, excellent video and quite professional, both the briefing and the approach... Please allow the video reply I'm submitting of this same approach I flew in a Drukair (Royal Buthan Airlines) A319 in FSX, published about six months ago. Smooth landings

Hi! Nice approach, a proper job! But the critical thing about primitive sceneries of Paro is slightly wrong location of rwy in relation to mountains - check my approach called "Embraer E190 Visual Approach & Landing in Paro VQPR rwy 15 (FS9)" where I used a new scenery (payware by Thai Creation) - it seems far more realistic: compare how close the threshold of rwy 15 is to the slope - it is far less space for final turn, so you complete the lineup just at the threshold.

I have all the Extreme Series Airports done. Just look at my Extreme Airports playlist on my channel.

congrats and he always check your videos.

why dont you fly with gps to the runway?

That is actually done in photoshop layers, I just place them where I need them

I have no idea.

Hi. May I ask that did u use the auto-throttle in this approach or it is absolutely manual control of the throttle?

Yes, Airbus X should have that feature.