Sedona, US 🇺🇸 Small Airport
KSEZ
SDX
4830 ft
US-AZ
GPS Code: KSEZ
Local Code: SEZ
Location: 34.848598° N, -111.788002° E
Continent: NA
Type: Small Airport
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| Designation | Length | Width | Surface | Status |
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| 03/21 | 5129 ft | 100 ft | ASP | Active Lighted |
| Type | Description | Frequency |
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| A/D | A/D PHOENIX | 126.375 MHz |
| AWOS | AWOS 2 | 118.525 MHz |
| CTR | CTR ALBUQUERQUE | 124.325 MHz |
| RDO | PRESCOTT RDO | 122.3 MHz |
| UNIC | CTAF/UNICOM | 123.0 MHz |
Taxis are typically available outside the arrival terminals.
Multiple rental car companies may have counters at this airport.
Buses or trains may connect the airport to the city center.
It's not that bad, even for a flat lander. Land rwy 3, even if there's a slight tailwind. Fly the VASI, which will put you a little long and keep you on glide slope. Just flre and let the rwy come up to meet you!
Hi,
KSEZ was landing number 4 on my long solo cross-country flight during my flight training (my "3 towered landings" x-c: The first 3 ldgs were at Flagstaff, another bumpy, cross-windy airport!)
Most of Arizona's airfields, especially those in the more northern parts, can be windy, gusty, and bumpy - that's just Arizona flying... but if the air was always smooth and always straight down the runway, everyone would want to live here!
Don't let the "SS Sedona" spook you - it just looks scary since it is up on a teeny, tiny looking mesa. But it just ~looks~ that way. (That's how it got the nickname "SS Sedona" - it kinda looks like an aircraft carrier landing...)
Here's the trick to landing there - NEVER try to put it down on the numbers! Land a little long - there will almost always be turbulence and even downdrafts at the ends of the runway - since the runway ends at the edge of the mesa which falls off rather abruptly to the valley floor below...
Come in high, maybe a few knots fast, with a good sink rate and make it a short-field landing. Even though the runway looks small (since it looks like it's all alone up there, perched on a mesa) it really is plenty long and wide. It will probably be windy, so just keep flying the airplane all the way to the tie-downs.
Get it tied-down and visit the FBO - get yourself a "SS Sedona" souvenir ballcap so you'll have braggin' rights. Then visit the new restaurant there - I hear they have good food!
When you are done, go out and make a short field take-off so that you've got a little altitude under your butt before you pass over the far end of the runway - you'll be fine!
Have fun!
Mark
This is a scary airport to land at. METAR does not show all the wind currents, even experienced pilots crash here.