{"id":12376,"date":"2024-02-19T02:15:13","date_gmt":"2024-02-18T16:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-madeira-airports-approach-is-so-challenging\/"},"modified":"2024-02-19T02:15:13","modified_gmt":"2024-02-18T16:15:13","slug":"why-madeira-airports-approach-is-so-challenging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=12376","title":{"rendered":"Why Madeira Airport&#8217;s Approach Is So Challenging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cristiano Ronaldo International Airport (FNC), otherwise known by names such as Funchal Airport, <a href=\"http:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/madeira-airport\/\">Madeira Airport<\/a>, and Santa Catarina Airport, is the gateway to the sunny hotspot of Madeira, Portugal. The facility serves millions of passengers each year, but it is well-documented as being the home of some of the most dramatic approaches in the world. But what causes this phenomenon? Let&#39;s find out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Difficult conditions on the Portuguese island often bring out the best in pilots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,475,705,3962,3960],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airports","category-landing","category-madeira-airport","category-runway"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12377,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12376\/revisions\/12377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}