Shortest length runways?
 

Hi guys,

Just curious to know what is the shortest runway you've ever landed on.

Umm, a very unimpressive 600m...

I presume you also include the subsequent take off? :) :)

About 400m in a C150.

About 450m in a BE36 although for that I started accelerating while turning around after backtracking. The initial climb after rotation wasn't over the runway sfc. Not that there was much difference between the rwy surface & the scrub around it, apart from slightly fewer trees & the old tyres, piles of rocks etc that marked the area.

Used to do touch & go's on YBCG's short strip. I think that one is about 500+ m (anyone have the correct distance?).

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Weston Zoyland, 300m, concrete, slightly downwind.

G

Netherthorpe's 18\36, 375m. Interesting flapless approach!

Cardiff .... in a 747-400!

Rod

I did my PPL at Netherthorpe. Rnwy 18 has a LDA of 357m. The 'Long' Rnwy is 24 with an LDA 407m with a 1.9% upslope.

The smell of fear is a C-150, 2 up with half tanks in nil wind.

A now closed grass strip in Odense, Denmark. 695 meters - not that impressive.

Made touch and goes. Had about 20 hrs, rain and 15 kts crosswind. On one of the T/Gs almost made an overrun into a fence. Sunk into a pool of mud - no room for stopping - so got airboune with about 45 kts, speed building up very slowly in ground effect and 10 cm over the 2 meters fence!

Runway in a golf course in Pennsylvania, 400m, that was the easy part. It was 7m wide,with a crosswind. I got a warrior in on the second attempt

There is an Instructor at OATS who landed a Jet in a coal yard next to Paddington Station then flew the Atlantic.

It was St Pancras actually!! Tom L-T gave us an interesting chat at Cranwell about that experience and told us that, whilst he was on his way from the Post Office tower, someone had entered his scramble-prepp'd cockpit and put the flaps up!! Made the departure very interesting!

The worst runway I've encountered was Spanhoe's alleged 700 metres in a Robin with poor brakes!

Beagal it was not a DR400 was it as i at one time had a drum brake DR400 based on a 370m farm strip and if you got it right you did not touch the brakes.

About 12 metres, night, unlit.

Helicopters. You know it makes sense.

:)

Not sure what type of Robin it was! It had a 180 BHP engine but had very poor forward visibility over the nose (making an accurate flare difficult), although quite good to the sides. It also had an odd fuel selection system; you had to move the selector through 'OFF' every time you went from L to R tank.

Barton, RWY 32, 396 metres, C150
Forgot to say that its a grass
runway and the pylons are not to
far away
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A BIT EXTRA FOR MUM.

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400m from beginning of upslope to base of trees at the other end, uneven, lumpy stubble, with ten skydivers aboard.

Approach equally exciting with a telephone wire 50yds short of the strip.

The CAA didn't like it and we moved to a 600m strip which had powerelines across it half way down. Couldn't turn the a/c around without the tail going into the crop.

Bloody good fun though!

Fixed Wing - About 45m long

F*ck me it was wide though...

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...proceeding below Decision Height with CAUTION...

2000ft (600m). In a C130 at up to 60 tonnes. Many, many times.....!

Meppershall in a Pa28 200r. Rwy length 317 metres, grass about 3 inches long and a line of conifers standing about 35-40 ft tall at the end. OK. it was just me on board in a 200hp arrow but bloody tight none the less!
Failing that, rwy 31/13 at shoreham.

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Climb Aboard, lets have some fun.

Been into a couple of VERY short grasss strips, but I can't recall their length.

You get to as stage on the take-off when you have to decide on going under or over the telephone wires when you get airborne..........of course you go over, but sometimes you are holding on, white knuckles, 55kts, BEGGING it to climb just a little more.....aaaaaaagggggghhhhhh........right, lets have another go!