Marshal field FRI and Manhattan Kansas MHK I am sure they have fooled many people. In fact If I remember right in the airport directory there is even a line about the fields looking the same.
Both lay just past a river with and a road with the same runway layout, and only about 6 miles apart.
HiTech
Another scary approach and easy to get confused about, if you had never been in there before is Wheeler downtown airport in Kanas city! Wheee, first time I went in there was just after dark, but was VFR, so other than a eyeful of lights, was not any problem. But did have to go in there serveral times later on, some of which were IFR and I remember it as being one of those you had to be on your toes all the way to touchdown. One ILS had like a 4 or 5 degree glideslope, which is pretty steep. Anytime going into a strange field with a 1800RVR, indefinite ceiling could be un-comfortable, but with a co-pilot in my later years of flying, it wasn't to bad.
Approaching any runway at night, shape the runway lights make in your mind tells you about how high you are, so with these guys going into 200 to 300 foot wide runways day in and day out, makes you wonder how that 100 foot runway looked as they were beginning to flare for landing!
75 Foot wide runways, such as Bluefield, Va was no problem when I was young and had good depth perception, but as I approached 60 or so, I could really begin to tell why the FAA stopped airline pilots at age 62 or what ever it used to be.
Another airport which was confusing at night or IFR, was Ronald Regan in down town Washington, which had a "sag" mid way down the runway and you are flaring and thinking you are about to touch down and nothing, wondering if you forgot the gear! LOL
