View Full Version : Where is this runway
Charles Darwin
14th Oct 2005, 17:59
http://img426.imageshack.us/img426/7344/6runway1jt.jpg
Stumbled upon this photo. Does anybody know where this is?
AlanM
14th Oct 2005, 18:03
Looks like Courchevel in France.....
Loads more here (http://tinyurl.com/cvz2v)
9gmax
14th Oct 2005, 19:05
nope, sorry alanm....
it is definitely LUKLA in Nepal....
just take any search machine and type LUKLA....
been there, even more impressive than Courchevelle...
rgds
Just found a picture of Lukla from the period I was there... not so comfortable as it is nowadays....
http://www.vic.com/nepal/images/luklaplane.jpg
Charles Darwin
14th Oct 2005, 19:08
Looks like France...but not quite though. The surroundings look a bit different and the buildings also. Maybe my photo is just old and things change.:confused:
Ok, Lukla! Thanks ;)
Farrell
14th Oct 2005, 19:18
Yep, it's Lukla in Nepal
One of the five airports in the world that I want to fly to as a pilot.
There is a video available of a Twotter on takeoff.....give me a few minutes and I'll find it.
here we go.....thanks to Windle Poons, who posted this a while back
http://www.bazlinton.com/images/Lukla_2001.mpg
philip2004uk
15th Oct 2005, 17:31
And for flightsim 2004 although doesnt have sloping runway you can download terrain mesh and airport
www.flightsim.com or avsim
jabird
16th Oct 2005, 00:14
Farrell,
So what are the other four then, and how many of them have commercial flights too?
Lukla seems to have several daily flights from Kathmandu.
Manual Reversion
16th Oct 2005, 09:05
It's Lukla, you can't quite see the remains of the aircraft that didn't make it on the side of the runway. the 'turnround' apron at the top used to be gravel which required nearly full power to move on. Luckily the Nepaleese 'TSA' have had the good sense not to ban ice axes from the cabin
Leodis
16th Oct 2005, 19:27
No, its Leeds Bradford with the Chevin in the background:}
Just found the photo on airliners.net (http://www.airliners.net/open.file/343028/L/) and another one:
scary fun (http://www.airliners.net/open.file/197484/M/)
The pilots view is quite amazing...
:ok: