First of all, I'm sorry for the plate's quality and for the fact that it's in portuguese. This airport doesn't receive international flights, so it would be unnecessary for the pilots to have it in english too. Anyway, it should be understandable enough with some explanations. Again, this is a non-precision and difficult approach, so it may take a while until you manage to perform it correctly, but it's so nice when you do ... !

Something that makes navigation more difficult is that there are few defined waypoints for this approach - most of them are purely a radial and distance from a VOR. Get your plate ready and feel free to pause the simulator if something is going wrong or you got lost! This approach starts at AFONSOS NDB (AFS - 270) -> 5000 feet or at CAXIAS VOR (CAX - 113.00) -> 4000 feet. Then, you continue on heading 086 (AFONSOS) or 177 (CAXIAS) to intercept the radial 132 from MERITI NDB (IT - 290); at this time, you should be on heading 132 heading to the airport. At 5 DME from the 177 radial of CAXIAS (told you there's no waypoint), the minimum altitude is 3500 feet. At 19.5 DME from the 307 radial of MARICA (MRC - 114.00), the minimum altitude is 2700 feet. You should still be following radial 132 from MERITI, exactly as we started. When you are about 2.5 miles away from the airport, start a turn to the right to enter the downwing leg - set your speed to a maximum of 150 knots. Slowly start a descent to 1300 feet (the minimum descent altitude) - but pay attention to the obstacles in the area, you certainly don't want to crash there! About 1 mile from the runway threshold, start a left turn to enter base leg and if you have visual contact, descend to about 1000 feet - at this point, you should already have your gear down and flaps fully extended. Always look at the left window to determine what is the time to turn to final - there isn't much time between turn to base and turn to final! Before you reach the Sugar Loaf (you should be in front of it, anyways), start the left turn to final and make corrections to the bank angle in order to align perfectly with the runway. Phew - after a mile on final, you'll be crossing the threshold; remember to land on the touchdown zone (even if it results in a rough one - it's better than ending up in the sea!) and use the brakes, spoilers and reverse thrust. If you managed to do all this correctly, congratulations - it is a truly great feeling, isn't it?!

Practice, practice, practice! If this encourages you, only experienced pilots are allowed to land in Santos Dumont, in real life. It's no easy task, for sure, but definitely worth *several* tries!