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Old 30th Apr 2016, 21:29
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fireflybob
 
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the 737-800 a 'slippery' plane under the wind conditions on the island.
Regarding airfields with wind problems = most of the Greek islands, Gibraltar, LTN on a nasty 1/4 wind gusty day; NCE, GRO, GEN, Santander, and many others. They may not all be orographic wind problems, some will be rotor from local hills. Even katabatic effects at night. Many of the sea-side airfields squeezed in between hills and the beach will give problems.
I'm with RAT 5 on this - if you're familiar with the 737-800 it would I'm sure be quite manageable - I can't imagine it is any worse than many other airfields in the world that this type regularly flies to.
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