FatSuperman
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- Feb 25, 2016
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Courchevel airport in The Three Valley is interesting.....with a cliff edge at one end.
Not content with it being a cracked, icy runway, they thought they'd add a jump in!?
Courchevel airport in The Three Valley is interesting.....with a cliff edge at one end.
Courchevel airport in The Three Valley is interesting.....with a cliff edge at one end.
I worked in Ethiopia in the mid to late 90s, Mekele Airport was a gravel runway- I didn’t know until we flew in and landed and you hear the gravel hitting the plane - I thought we were be shot at. Then Asmara Airport ( in Eritrea) has loads of burnout tanks around the runway - no one had got round to removing them after the war.
Ethiopian airways was fun, every used to applaud when ever we landed !! The pilot really only has two jobs to do and the most important is land the plane, he doesn’t need applauded for doing his day job.
La Guardia is unusual in that it is so incredibly shit for serving a city as large as NY.
As well as being a total dump, there is no public transport into Manhattan.
What’s that all about?
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[MENTION=20]Publius Ovidius[/MENTION] that reminds me of Hamilton Island Airport in Queensland.
I particularly liked the luggage collection system. A luggage buggy is driven to the plane, all the cases are loaded on, then it drives back and stops outside the terminal. At that point it's a free-for-all to collect your cases directly from the buggy.
Heading there in June. Is the airport interesting?
Not content with it being a cracked, icy runway, they thought they'd add a jump in!?
Skiathos has a ridiculously short runway, hard on the brakes only experienced pilots allowed.
I quite like Gibraltar airport whose runway basically runs across the Spanish entrance and exit to/from the country, necessitating all traffic to be held up whenever a plane flies in or out, which sometimes amounts to as much as two hours a day. A diversion route was planned in 2009 but to-date still hasn't been built!
Courchevel airport in The Three Valley is interesting.....with a cliff edge at one end.
Flew to La Rochelle recently. The airport is so small it makes Shoreham airport (sorry Brighton City airport) look big and bustling by comparison.
Is that the one Bond escaped from,supposedly in Russia?
Airport in Madeira is hairy to say the least.