I'm cheating a little bit, it's in New Zealand, and "field" is not an appropriate word, more like "strip". "Interesting" is, however, an appropriate word. It's about 10cm wider than a C172 undercarriage, but plenty long enough to not have to brake hard.
Although, to keep it relevant to the thread, I'd rather land long than land short. Someone crashed into a little 3' high bank at the threshold a few years ago and really honestly suffered for it. One of the problems with elevated strips on platform formations or hilltops is that the wind tends to be a headwind, and this headwind tends to follow the ground contours, and if the ground goes down from (the runway) to (just before the runway) then the wind goes down (and so does your aeroplane) on very short finals. In this case it went down too much and he was trying to land on the threshold but got caught.
Co-ordinates are S40deg49' E173deg49'
Greville harbour, on D'Urville Island.
edited to show relevance to thread
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Confident, cocky, lazy, dead.
[This message has been edited by chicken6 (edited 24 January 2001).]