From the Flight Deck – Chicago Executive Airport, IL (PWK)

Chicago Executive Airport (PWK) is a medium sized, primarily business and general aviation airport located seven miles north of Chicago O’Hare International Airport. Pilots should be aware that it has its own Class Delta airspace, which underlies the Class Bravo airspace around O’Hare. Due to the airspace design and the proximity to O’Hare, all IFR approaches conducted to Chicago Executive are to runway one six, circle to land if necessary. This video prepares pilots for hot spots and other configuration issues at Chicago Executive.

Visit https://www.faa.gov/pwk 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 PWK Arrival Alert Notice here: https://www.faa.gov/airports/runway_s...

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 https://www.faa.gov/FromTheFlightDeck

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.