Mental use of traffic lights
Discussion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3mvwd4IQRo
At what is apparently the world's most dangerous airport.
If you survive the landing you find yourself in the murder capital of the world too.
I try not to go there very often.
At what is apparently the world's most dangerous airport.
If you survive the landing you find yourself in the murder capital of the world too.
I try not to go there very often.
Ginetta G15 Girl said:
Have you ever been to Waddington? Or Finningley? Or St. Mawgan? Or Cranwell? Or Lyneham? Or Brize Norton? Or Coningsby? Or Kinloss? Or, indeed anyairfield where a road crosses the undershoot?
At Gibraltar the road crosses the runway!
Have you ever seen Latin American drivers?At Gibraltar the road crosses the runway!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_z5HtME9n8
Landing there - a friend who drives a B737 says it is like landing on an aircraft carrier. He has however never landed on a aircraft carrier so make of that what you will. They have since blasted a part of the hill out of the way to make it less dodgy.
Landing there - a friend who drives a B737 says it is like landing on an aircraft carrier. He has however never landed on a aircraft carrier so make of that what you will. They have since blasted a part of the hill out of the way to make it less dodgy.
Ginetta G15 Girl said:
Fairly sporty!
Not quite Kai Tak though
Not quite Kai Tak though
History Channel's 'Most Extreme Airports' puts Kai Tak in 6th place and this one in 2nd place:
10. KSAN - San Diego, CA - Congested airspace, busy single-runway airport - however, no mention of the 3 busy GA airports or 2 Naval Air Stations nearby - just talked about airline traffic to/from KSAN
9. LPMA - Madeira, Portugal - Location on island, wind conditions, runway built out into ocean on stilts.
8. KEGE - Vail, CO - Altitude and approach/departure through terrain
7. LFLJ - Courchevel, France - Altitude, approach through valleys, short runway with an 18.5% grade
6. VHHH - Hong Kong Kai Tak - Approach between tall buildings, make sharp turn to final at 300ft AGL
5. LXGB - Gibraltar - Spain won't allow departures/arrivals through their airspace, so makes the approach/departure pretty interesting, highway goes across runway
4. TNCM - St. Maarten, Netherlands Antilles - Short-ish runway, high terrain on departure end, proximity to beach on approach end, crazy people "riding the fence" when heavies power up to take off (I want to try that!)
3. TFFJ - St. Barth's - Short, downhill runway, slam-dunk approach over a hill with automotive traffic at the top
2. MHTG - Tegucigalpa, Honduras - High altitude, short runway, approach through surrounding terrain
1. VNLK - Lukla, Nepal - High Altitude, 1700ft. runway with 12% grade
Watching take offs and landings at Northolt was fun.
Short runway and roads either end.
We often had the hedge trimmed at the Ruislip end.
I remember a fully loaded P3 just managed to get its wheels up before the hedge and a dutch f27 put 2 large cuts in the hedge when landed that lasted for weeks.
Short runway and roads either end.
We often had the hedge trimmed at the Ruislip end.
I remember a fully loaded P3 just managed to get its wheels up before the hedge and a dutch f27 put 2 large cuts in the hedge when landed that lasted for weeks.
No traffic lights, but at Andrewsfield in Essex, the road has to make a detour around the end of the grass runway, and there is no physical barrier to prevent access to the runway by people, pedestrians, or vehicles. Obviously it's not on the scale of some of the submissions here, but interesting, all the same (IMHO).
http://goo.gl/maps/QIc1q
(zoom out and you can see the 'shadow' of the old 'A' layout runways under the fields)
http://goo.gl/maps/QIc1q
(zoom out and you can see the 'shadow' of the old 'A' layout runways under the fields)
Some planes need more than just traffic lights to block off the vehicle access to their approach
http://www.flickr.com/photos/75646860@N04/70000310...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/75646860@N04/70000310...
Edited by Burrow01 on Monday 8th July 16:59
Edited by Burrow01 on Monday 8th July 17:00
Burrow01 said:
Some planes need more than just traffic lights to block off the vehicle access to their approach
http://www.flickr.com/photos/75646860@N04/70000310...
that's Northolt where the yellow fence is used to be the hedge that I was going on abouthttp://www.flickr.com/photos/75646860@N04/70000310...
Edited by Burrow01 on Monday 8th July 16:59
Edited by Burrow01 on Monday 8th July 17:00
Ayahuasca said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_z5HtME9n8
Landing there - a friend who drives a B737 says it is like landing on an aircraft carrier. He has however never landed on a aircraft carrier so make of that what you will. They have since blasted a part of the hill out of the way to make it less dodgy.
Aircraft carriers are usually at sea. There aren't many mountains there so he is indeed talking bolleaux.Landing there - a friend who drives a B737 says it is like landing on an aircraft carrier. He has however never landed on a aircraft carrier so make of that what you will. They have since blasted a part of the hill out of the way to make it less dodgy.
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