World's top 10 scariest airports
I've only been to JFK out of the list below, but can anyone share their experience regarding the others?
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See below the procedure and you will see it is truly a visual approach!! http://204.108.4.16/d-tpp/0901/00443RIVER_VIS19.PDF Im suprised Quito Airport, Ecuador or Lukla Airport just near Mt Everest in Nepal didnt make the list. |
Wow that river approach looks awesome, very unusual! I am gonna give that a try in FSX.
Quito approach is one of the default missions in FSX and very challenging in a 744F. |
wasnt there a new airport in Chione or Tibet that had a very dangerous aproach flying between mountians at a faily high altitiude?
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Kai Tak in HKG would be on the list if it was still operational.
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I assume this is the scareist "commerical" airports.
Should try looking up Tenzing-Hillary Airport in Lukla, Nepal about 40 miles from Mount Everest Base Camp. It is tar! but no actually level. There is a danger taking out the fence on just before the threshold. Also there is some you-tube stuff on Alberto Carnevali Airport in Merida, Venezuela, which is in between mountains. As for small stuff, I didn't know our Defence Force gravel trucks were helicopters until I saw some 30 degree angle runways in PNG that they touch and stopped on! |
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Here's Fane in the central highlands. http://www.billzilla.org/fane.jpg It's got about a 16° slope, is ~450 metres long and has a big drop on the bottom end. Kamulai is worse though. |
Bill did you fly in PNG during your career?
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http://www.billzilla.org/guasopa.jpg That's the little jet at Guasopa. http://www.billzilla.org/rabaulvolcano.jpg And back in about 1994 when the volcano at Rabaul went up. We were on an extended downwind in that photo, for the other local airport where people where being evacuated. |
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