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The World's 18 Strangest Airports

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  • #2
    gerire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,587 ✭✭✭gerire


    There is some particularly hairy landings there especially in Honduras

    My favourite of the lot is #7 in the Alps; Pffft we dont need a flat funway up here


  • #3
    Steyr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,266 ✭✭✭Steyr


    Look at how long the Taxiway is on number 17 Macau:eek:


  • #4
    lord lucan
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    Always loved St. Maarten,would love to spend a day on that beach.:D


  • #5
    Steyr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,266 ✭✭✭Steyr


    lord lucan wrote: »
    Always loved St. Maarten,would love to spend a day on that beach.:D

    Priced it before, jesus if i get a few bob........:D


  • #6
    tricky D
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    I wouldn't like to have to land at Singapore Changi 20R/02L. According to Google Earth you have to hop a few metres to the left or right a few times to stay on centre.:pac:


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  • #7
    veetwin
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    lord lucan wrote: »
    Always loved St. Maarten,would love to spend a day on that beach.:D

    Get there somethere..Its an absolutely amazing place. There is a bar right on the beach where you can get some great photos and at least the time I was there topless ladies drank for free!


  • #8
    Plowman
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  • #9
    amen
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    innis mor is fine. v windy the day i was out there (2000). plane was crabbed at a crazy angle then rudder at the last moment. got to sit next to pilot. was cool


  • #10
    smellslikeshoes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,354 ✭✭✭smellslikeshoes


    Would love to have a look at Princess Juliana and Toncontin, some seriously crazy stuff.


  • #11
    hurleronditch
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    Im no pilot, wouldnt even describe myself as an enthusiast compared to some of you guys, but i would have thought that Courchavel wouldnt have been the most ouistanding? many ski resorts have altiports including meribel around the corner, though mostly snow covered for ski landings. would have thought lukla would have been a far more remarkable mountaintop runway?


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  • #12
    Carawaystick
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    amen wrote: »
    innis mor is fine. v windy the day i was out there (2000). plane was crabbed at a crazy angle then rudder at the last moment. got to sit next to pilot. was cool

    Inis Mór is 1585 feet on Google earth, Oirr is just under 1700' and Mean is 1770 or so.
    measured between the white lines at either end of the runway.

    Flew into Inis Oirr and Inis Mór. the runways are definitely not flat.

    Oh yeah, they weigh your luggage and then weigh *you*. this determines where you seat in the plane


  • #13
    robinph
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,146 Mod ✭✭✭✭robinph


    There is one in the South Island of New Zealand that has a railway track going across one end of it aparently.


  • #14
    Plowman
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  • #15
    Steyr
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    Plowman wrote: »
    This post has been deleted.

    And people say the Irish are mad, thats crazy.


  • #16
    Plowman
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    This post has been deleted.


  • #17
    robinph
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    Plowman wrote: »
    This post has been deleted.
    That's the one, I guessed wrong about which island it was one though. :o


  • #18
    stacy clerke
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    Hi, I enjoyed the link that you posted. The Gibraltar Airport was really a unique one.:)
    Ski Chalets
    http://www.scottdunn.com/ski/genres/skiing-scott-dunn-ski-chalets.html


  • #19
    Steyr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,266 ✭✭✭Steyr


    stacy clerke wrote: »
    Hi, I enjoyed the link that you posted. The Gibraltar Airport was really a unique one.:)

    First post and in the A&A Boards, your welcome in regards to my post and welcome to A&A.

    :)


  • #20
    Sterling Archer
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    Nice find Steyr, they've all been added to my places to visit list.


  • #21
    Steyr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,266 ✭✭✭Steyr


    Shane_ef wrote: »
    Nice find Steyr, they've all been added to my places to visit list.

    Got money?:eek::D


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  • #22
    Sterling Archer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,251 ✭✭✭Sterling Archer


    HAHA NO..... not yet,
    Shhhh keep it quiet but i've a certain tiger kept in my back yard ;)


  • #23
    bongi69
    Closed Accounts Posts: 370 ✭✭bongi69


    Steyr wrote: »
    Look at how long the Taxiway is on number 17 Macau:eek:

    Taxiing to the Polderbaan at AMS is long enough. Cant imagine how long it would take at Macau.

    Surpirsed that Paro airport in Bhutan didn't make the list. Only a handful of pilots in the world are cleared to land at it. Some pretty crazy banking involved during approach and departure round some big mountains. Search youtube for Paro approach


  • #24
    slimjimmc
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    Koh Samui, Thailand. Terminal buildings are thatched teak huts., absolutely beautiful.
    http://www.samuiairportonline.com/photo-gallery


  • #25
    crisco10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,323 ✭✭✭crisco10


    slimjimmc wrote: »
    Koh Samui, Thailand. Terminal buildings are thatched teak huts., absolutely beautiful.
    http://www.samuiairportonline.com/photo-gallery

    +1

    Beautiful airport. Got a lovely flight out of there on an ATR 42. The "duty free" is an outside street...


  • #26
    lord lucan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,576 ✭✭✭lord lucan


    bongi69 wrote: »
    Surpirsed that Paro airport in Bhutan didn't make the list. Only a handful of pilots in the world are cleared to land at it. Some pretty crazy banking involved during approach and departure round some big mountains. Search youtube for Paro approach





  • #27
    pclancy
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    Ah Gisborne, i'm supposed to be flying up there before the end of the summer with our club for some comps, must take photos of the airport when i'm there :)

    The charts are interesting:

    http://www.aip.net.nz/pdf/NZGS_46.1.pdf

    http://www.aip.net.nz/pdf/NZGS_51.1_51.2.pdf

    :) Kiwis are just abit crazier then the Irish!


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