From The Flight Deck - Falcon Field Airport, Mesa, AZ (FFZ)

FAA's From the Flight Deck video series uses cockpit mounted cameras to capture runway and taxiway footage and combines them with diagrams and visual graphics to clearly identify hot spots and other safety-sensitive items. Learn more at www.faa.gov/FromTheFlightDeck
Visit www.faa.gov/ffz for supplemental "pilot handbook" information on this airport including airport-specific cautions, information local controllers want pilots to know, airport communications, airspace details and other preflight planning resources.
To address wrong surface events where an aircraft lines up to or lands on the incorrect runway, taxiway, or airport, the FAA released Arrival Alert Notices (AAN) at various airports with a history of misalignment risk. View the FFZ Arrival Alert Notice here: www.faa.gov/airports/runway_s...
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Falcon Field is a medium sized primarily general and business aviation airport. It is located approximately 14 miles east of Phoenix Sky Harbor. This location makes it convenient for GA and corporate traffic trying to avoid the congestion at the larger airport.
0:34 - Basic Airport Description
1:19 - Runway Configuration
1:44 - Wrong Runway Concerns
2:14 - Parallel Taxiway D
This video is informational only and does not replace the pilot’s responsibility to conduct required pre-flight planning in accordance with FAR 91.103.

[@xhl8653]

Our home airport! It is awesome!

[@phongnguyen007]

My beloved airport, and my Sabena school

[@ScottEBBR]

I trained at FFZ Back in 2011. Fond memories!

[@terriwolcott6620]

Excellent! Let's do one of these for KVGT.

[@imagerysd]

Great video

[@user-ty7hz4qh5i]

nice!

[@MacrossJet]

Tell me more about the VFR corridor over Falcon.

[@portermagnus9154]

InstaBlaster

[@MacrossJet]

@@portermagnus9154 lol. Not sure what that means. But, it sounded funny.

[@myfavoritemartian1]

I have not been back since the Champlain Museum left. It was a shame.

[@thegodofhellfire]

let's see PVD.. with some archaic taxiway layout design left over from the 30's and a decommissioned, then recommissioned, then decommissioned again runway now taxiway.

[@richardwillerton5447]

Background music is deafening