Landing El Paso coming from Dallas take #2

This is Southwest Airlines landing at El Paso Airport in El Paso, TX coming from Dallas Love Field Airport in Dallas, TX. This is take #2. We landed on RWY 26L. We flew over the far east side of El Paso. U can see Joe Battle and that big shopping center. U can also see loop 375. The landing was pretty steep. The plane steeped onto the runway. It is always like that in El Paso Airport. I wonder why all the landings in this airport are steep. In other airports, its smooth. This is a Boeing 737-300.

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[jgrodin]

Also, notice the layout of the airport, it was designed that way because of its proximity to mountains. You either have wind coming off the mountains (seems to be the case most of the time at ELP) which is why 26 is in use more often then none.  Days you see 4 used or 8R (usually for takeoff) its on days with a calm wind or slight tailwind. It saves the airlines time and money on fuel taxing to a closer runway.

[elevatortimes]

@jgrodin Well as of now, RWY 8R and 26L are closed. They are rennovating the RWY. So only 4 and 22 are used. And yes I have seen planes land on 4, I saw one today.

[crapper1]

i did some reseach as u asked about the steep apprach the airport does have a noise abatment in place for runway 4/22 and it might be a factor for the higher glideslope its usually for takeoff but if people compain enough they can make them land higher not that it helps any as its always the pilots discression wither he flollows that as its a recomendation from the tower not an order

[elevatortimes]

@crapper1 Yea, no wonder the planes always land on RWY 8R/26L. They mostly only take off on 4/22. If u look at my video landing El Paso coming from Houston Hobby, u can see that the plane landed on 8R. That was my first time ever landing on 8R. Usually, coming from the front, the plane lands on 4. And it was a spiral land on my previous landing in el paso video. It was so steep.

[jgrodin]

Gotcha, yeah of course they'll land on 4 depending on the winds. Days when there is not a calm wind or any type of cross wind component, they have to take the runway that is the safest for them.

[jgrodin]

Noise abatement procedures have more to do with power settings on takeoff. They really don't apply to landing. In El Paso I've noticed it calls for a reduced power setting on takeoff and passing a certain altitude, I'm guessing 1500 or 2000 AGL, the plane returns to normal climb power settings. Another reason they land on 8R/26L is the winds coming off the mountains are more prevalent on that heading rather than 22.

[crapper1]

ive had that happen to me coming in to chicago where atc has u do 2 tight turns and drop about 4000 feet to a short final its very fun doing those approaches