Take off and landings 11: Sion Airport (LSGS)

Take offs and landings 11: Sion Airport, Switzerland, Europe   The eleventh video from the Take offs and landings videoseries shows landing and take off from Sion Airport in Switzerland.

Switzerland, Sion LSGS - Landing

Switzerland, Sion LSGS - Take off

Sion Airport (LSGS) -  take off and landing

If you are lucky as we were and the weather is fine then the arrival through the valley of Rhone River offers spectacular views regardless of whether you fly from the East or the West.

Just be careful if you fly in from the East in the late afternoon when the sun is setting down and shines through the mist which can develop in the mountains even on nice days due to the late afternoon/early evening temperature drop. This happened to us on our second landing and we just did not see the runway in time for us to land safely so we had to repeat the approach. Sion is a controlled airport so we needed to coordinate with the tower control.

The airport of Sion is friendy, you can get Avgas here, the landing fees are reasonable and the parking area offers enough capacity. Flight plans have to be filed via internet, the same as at any Swiss airport. 

Sion is an international airport. So with its excellent location it represents a splendid gateway for discovering the most spectacular parts of Switzerland and the Alps from air. Geneva Lake, Mont Blanc, Matterhorn, Vallée Blanche, Bernese Alps with Jungfrau, Eiger, Monch and a lot of glaciers….Can you ask for more?

» Follow our other information to flying in Switzerland and visit our section Fly Europe. 

Our new video series „Take offs and landings“ will bring to you every Wednesday one video taken during a take off or landing during one of Flying Revue flight expeditions. Flying Revue expedition aircraft have landed already at more than 400 airports and airfields around the globe. For many reasons, not all our take offs and landings have been videoed.

However, the number of videos which we have on file is permanently growing. So the new video series „Take offs and landings“ is very well stocked. You can watch these videos free of charge either just for your interest or as part of preparations for your own flight to some of the airports shown in these series.

» Sion Airport LSGS, Switzerland, Europe

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