Where is this runway

[Charles Darwin]

Stumbled upon this photo. Does anybody know where this is?

[AlanM]

Looks like Courchevel in France.....

Loads more here

[9gmax]

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]

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.


Ok, Lukla! Thanks

[Farrell]

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]

And for flightsim 2004 although doesnt have sloping runway you can download terrain mesh and airport
www.flightsim.com or avsim

[jabird]

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]

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]

No, its Leeds Bradford with the Chevin in the background

[hanx]

Just found the photo on !!!!!!!!!!!!!! and another one:

scary fun

The pilots view is quite amazing...