Haven't flown into Meigs but hope I get a chance to. Talking of wacky undershoots, anyone tried Weybourn on the north Norfolk coast? Visual perspective of glidepath complicated by a grassy knoll in the undershoot. I got my first approach to the place well wrong and went around early. Landed off the next one and yammed on the brakes as it felt like I was about to pop off the cliff at the upwind end (in fact I stopped short enough). Departing Weybourn is a blast: you launch off a lip and out over the sea. Probably as close as I will get to a Carrier departure.
There's another yee-haw ski-jump departure at Farmer Southall's excellently maintained strip a few miles west at Burnham Thorpe (site of Nelson's dad's pad). England expects that every man shall do his duty and get airborne before it starts to go downhill.
A mate of mine tells me that all this is nothing compared to landing at St Bart's in the French Caribbean, where there's some humongous mountain in the undershoot and you have to be specially checked out by a local instructor to tackle the mad steep descent to the threshold. Anyone tried it?
[This message has been edited by FNG (edited 07 November 2000).]