The shortest runway you have ever landed wth jet?
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TTN: re your Victor story, Newark Air Museum which is at the old WWII airfield of Winthorpe took delivery of a Vulcan in '83. The pilot, S/L Neil McDougall stopped 60 tons of tin triangle in 700 metres in a snowstorm...can't imagine that getting past the risk assessors these days.
Edit: I fly from Gamston/Retford, not commercially by the way, and am always surprised at the ease at which the bizjets land and slow down before the turn off, around 700 metres (long enough for a Vulcan then!). I'm pretty sure they get off the deck in less distance than I do in an Arrow as well.
Edit: I fly from Gamston/Retford, not commercially by the way, and am always surprised at the ease at which the bizjets land and slow down before the turn off, around 700 metres (long enough for a Vulcan then!). I'm pretty sure they get off the deck in less distance than I do in an Arrow as well.
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Dan Air used to run a scheduled service with 146s' into Berne, which is about the same length as Blackbushe.
The '787 landing at Farnborough was using the '24 long' threshold giving an LDA of 2080m; hardly a short runway; the 'normal' 24 LDA is 1800m.
The '787 landing at Farnborough was using the '24 long' threshold giving an LDA of 2080m; hardly a short runway; the 'normal' 24 LDA is 1800m.
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This is a cool video of a Citation M2 (C525) landing at a 3000' strip and using about half of it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JE5XfBK6b0
Wot no heavy metal ... personal best a 744 MIA - LHR . full load , 20 tonnes freight , normal div fuel [ about and hour = 10 tonnes ] , dry , 5kt headwind , 27R , ATC asked for short stop .................
Yerssss , F40 , auto brake 3 , full reverse ..... normal touchdown point ... turned off at 1500 Metres .
Still had 2 autobrake 4 or full , and an early touchdown up our sleeves .... oh and reverse to a stop ... but Flight data recording ! ...
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Yerssss , F40 , auto brake 3 , full reverse ..... normal touchdown point ... turned off at 1500 Metres .
Still had 2 autobrake 4 or full , and an early touchdown up our sleeves .... oh and reverse to a stop ... but Flight data recording ! ...
rgds condor .
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I now fly out of 4000m X 60m. 
Nothing like landing on the numbers and then realising you've 3km to taxi. 
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Not quite in a jet but I've always been proud to say that I learnt to fly on 416m X 9m. Soloed before 10hrs too. I now fly out of 4000m X 60m. Nothing like landing on the numbers and then realising you've 3km to taxi.
I recognise those numbers...eicn... never been a jet in there, but I hear a skyvan did it...
I recognise those numbers...eicn... never been a jet in there, but I hear a skyvan did it...
KT DA and BY plus OM/MON B737-200 ADV
Mykonos island
from 1984 when it was very short and very windy - return flights always stopped at ATH to refuel and cater...
late inbound Mykonos jets had to be airborne by dusk as no lighting (always had Greek ATC delays then )
Mykonos island
from 1984 when it was very short and very windy - return flights always stopped at ATH to refuel and cater...
late inbound Mykonos jets had to be airborne by dusk as no lighting (always had Greek ATC delays then )
Dash 7 jet prop
landed on some dirt strip in Kenya one of the Masai mara camps
that was as long as my mums garden
landed on some dirt strip in Kenya one of the Masai mara camps
that was as long as my mums garden
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A 604 into and out of Plymouth from Farnborough. Pilots refused to do it next time on a very wet day. Had to land at Exeter and get a car down and back. Boss not amused..!!
During the late 90,s i flew regular flts into EDLN in the BAe146-200 it was a Captain only landing and if wet some serious number crunching was required.ATR42 went in but i think the 146 was the largest to get in,runway length 3937ft with a raised autobahn just off the northern end
I was an unintentional passenger on a Debonair flight to EDLN in that period, in the sense that we were actually going from Copenhagen to Munich, but a detour was made to EDLN to pick up passengers from another Debonair BAe 146 which had gone tech there...
Very entertaining landing and takeoff!
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A 604 into and out of Plymouth from Farnborough. Pilots refused to do it next time on a very wet day. Had to land at Exeter and get a car down and back. Boss not amused..!!
