The history of the airport begins on when a School of Naval Aviation was established near Galeão beach on Governador Island. The name Galeão was a beach on the island. SBGL Galeão Airport itself is built on its own complete island called Governador Island (Ilha do Governador, in Portuguese) and is the largest island in Guanabara Bay. Visually it is a great approach, but you can't see any of the iconic Rio visual feasts in the forementioned "Christ the Redeemer" or "Sugarloaf Mountain". NARA 10 STAR will give you both north and south arrival patterns through SANTA CRUZ VOR. Instead I would be using a direct approach via SANTA CRUZ VOR (SCR-113.60) and MERITI NDB (IT- 290) that gives you a direct approach into SBGL RWY10 though the valley east of Serra do Mendanha. My fantasy of gliding past "Christ the Redeemer" was not going to happen as there is actually no approach path across the front of the summit of Mount Corcovado where the statue is placed. My entrance to SBGL was via a short flight from Sao Paulo going north and approaching the city from the south. The airport is located 20 km (12 mi) north of downtown Rio de Janeiro. Rio is also in the news for other reasons lately, the Football World Cup has been won and done, but in 2016 is the turn of the behemoth Olympic & Paralympics Summer Games to grace the city, and SBGL - Galeão will be again at the forefront of the public reception point for the city. So any X-Plane scenery that can at least fulfill even a slight longing of flying to Rio de Janeiro was always going to be a big deal, it is and here is the main destination for any arrival in that Southern Continent's most vivid city in Rio de Janeiro/Galeão–Antonio Carlos Jobim International Airport. I never got to Rio (well not yet anyway) but many others have been crossed off the BOAC list, but the dream lives on. India, Hong Kong, Egypt, South Africa, Japan and Australia, They infused early a dream of world traveling that is still my deepest desire and love.īut for a wannabe jetsetter Rio was the big one, visions of coming into land past the gaze of the "Christ the Redeemer" iconic statue was right at the top of one of my biggest set of bucket list of destinations, the holy grail of travel. Airline posters of the day (I have a fair collection) where of these exotic destinations. And at the same time aircraft became fast and global through Jet propulsion and the VC10's, Boeing 707's and DC8's now ruled all hemispheres and the Jetset were on the move in their thousands. Nothing was more exotic or remote in the 60's than Rio de Janeiro, it was the sounds of the music that brought it into context or the refrains of Bossa Nova "new trend" which is a lyrical fusion of samba and jazz. Scenery Review : SBGL Rio de Janeiro Intl by Richard G Nunes Scenery
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