Watsonville Airport
Description
Watsonville airport (WVI) is located 2.4 miles from the Monterey Bay.
Watsonville is a non-towered municipal airport, serving both Santa Cruz, and Monterey counties. There is a mix of piston single, light twin, antique, turbo-prop, and light jet aircraft based at Watsonville. Watsonville is the gateway to Santa Cruz, and the California Central Coast. There are extensive flight training operations at Watsonville.
Watsonville airport has all the elements of an ideal IFR training environment: All types of IFR approaches, both on airport and nearby; Actual IFR weather; Approach radar environment; Towered and non-towered airport operations; Mountainous environments; Picturesque location.
Instrument Approaches
There are 5 instrument approaches to the Watsonville airport. There is a localizer approach, an NDB approach, a VOR/DME approach, and two GPS approaches. All of the instrument approaches at Watsonville are non-precision approaches.
