Interesting Approaches & Departures
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And some more very interesting approaches and departures....
http://www.gletscherflug.ch/glacierlanding.htm
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http://www.gletscherflug.ch/glacierlanding.htm
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And some of these are pretty special too...
http://www.pilotlist.org/montagne/terrains.htm
Lac Fourchu looks particularly interesting...
http://www.pilotlist.org/montagne/lacfourchu.html
7,000 feet altitude, 200m strip, 'precision indispensable'. I'll say.
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http://www.pilotlist.org/montagne/terrains.htm
Lac Fourchu looks particularly interesting...
http://www.pilotlist.org/montagne/lacfourchu.html
7,000 feet altitude, 200m strip, 'precision indispensable'. I'll say.
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Probably not as exciting as some of those mentioned, but the following may be worthy of mention:
Inisheer, smallest of the Aran Islands. A hard runway, ending on a gravel beach at either end of its approx 500m, and so many uphill and downhill bits it looks positively undulating from final approach, over the sea of course. In a crosswind you could very easily get stranded there; we nearly did. Lovely place though.
Big Bear, In California. Not particularly short, but interesting as it's at 6,700 ft, and you need to climb over 10,000 mountains to get there. I've only done it in an R22, which completely ran out of RPM due to the heat and altitude as we cushion crept to a halt just off the runway. But I gather it's pretty interesting in a f/w aircraft too.
And on the subject of helicopters...One of these days I must try and land at Lake Vyrnwy Hotel's helipad. It's a pocket handkerchief lawn next to the hotel with an H on it. That's normal, but you have to either approach over the lake, which means you're coming in downwind (not recommended), or follow the curve of the hills, or come in from the north west approaching the hotel and turn round into wind at the last moment. All of these would be...quite interesting.
Hmmm... now I've mentioned helipads I'm sure someone will tell us about landing on a yacht or an aircraft carrier or something REALLY interesting.
Inisheer, smallest of the Aran Islands. A hard runway, ending on a gravel beach at either end of its approx 500m, and so many uphill and downhill bits it looks positively undulating from final approach, over the sea of course. In a crosswind you could very easily get stranded there; we nearly did. Lovely place though.
Big Bear, In California. Not particularly short, but interesting as it's at 6,700 ft, and you need to climb over 10,000 mountains to get there. I've only done it in an R22, which completely ran out of RPM due to the heat and altitude as we cushion crept to a halt just off the runway. But I gather it's pretty interesting in a f/w aircraft too.
And on the subject of helicopters...One of these days I must try and land at Lake Vyrnwy Hotel's helipad. It's a pocket handkerchief lawn next to the hotel with an H on it. That's normal, but you have to either approach over the lake, which means you're coming in downwind (not recommended), or follow the curve of the hills, or come in from the north west approaching the hotel and turn round into wind at the last moment. All of these would be...quite interesting.
Hmmm... now I've mentioned helipads I'm sure someone will tell us about landing on a yacht or an aircraft carrier or something REALLY interesting.
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Saw an Enstrom on the back of a largish yacht at Fort Lauderdale once... not sure if it had landed there, or whether it was craned on and off whenever the owner got the urge to rotovate... Couldn't see whether it had wellies...
I liked Avalon too, though seated as I was in the back seat of an Archer, we did appear to be climbing up the approach and were going to land short; the American instructor front right assured us it was an optical illusion. He pointed out the myriad skid marks at the point that the uphill portion of the runway changes to downhill (about halfway along?) where people thought they were about to overrun!
Gibraltar is quite fun as well - I was lucky enough to sit in the jump seat of a GB 737 for a landing there - it looked VERY short as we turned finals, but we stopped with plenty to spare.
And Kai Tak - pity it's gone...
I liked Avalon too, though seated as I was in the back seat of an Archer, we did appear to be climbing up the approach and were going to land short; the American instructor front right assured us it was an optical illusion. He pointed out the myriad skid marks at the point that the uphill portion of the runway changes to downhill (about halfway along?) where people thought they were about to overrun!
Gibraltar is quite fun as well - I was lucky enough to sit in the jump seat of a GB 737 for a landing there - it looked VERY short as we turned finals, but we stopped with plenty to spare.
And Kai Tak - pity it's gone...
