Anyone flown to KHOT recently?

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I am flying to Hot Springs (KHOT) on Monday. I see that runway 05/23 is closed. Has anyone flown there recently? Just curious as I have never landed on 13/31, and it doesn’t have an instrument approach.

[N201MKTurbo]

I was there on 4th of July. The airport was good. No problem.

[hammdo]

I’ve flown in there on the ILS and RNAV 05 and circled to land on 31. 31 has rising terrain and looks high but np in taking off. I usually do a downwind departure to the southwest if taking off 31. VX climb then VY to traffic pattern…

13 is right traffic btw…

-Don

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I was there a couple of months ago. Runway 5 was open then. 
 

If it’s IFR it looks like the circle to land option is going to be the only option. Weather looks a bit sketchy for Monday.

I can understand why 13 is right traffic as the mountain is rising quickly to the east.

[N201MKTurbo]

When I was there, runway 5 was open, I landed on it. Taxiways A and E were closed so I departed on 23, no traffic or wind. Rwy 5-23 was in great shape when I was there. No idea why it is closed.

I just looked it up, they are building a larger GA parking ramp and redoing taxiways A and E. I imagine the runway is closed for the taxiway work.

https://www.facebook.com/hsairport/posts/here-are-the-latest-updates-on-the-airport-construction-project-at-khot/1168719931956240/

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Flew in today. The ILS is down, so I had to fly the RNAV 5 circle to land 31. Broke out 900ish so it wasn’t too sketchy.

[N201MKTurbo]

The Mexican place at the top of the hill is pretty good.

[hammdo]

Fisherman’s warf is great on the lake too!

-Don