. . . and a good way to speed up your heart rate! This video was taken at and around the airport at Saint Barthélemy in the French West Indies.
You know, if a tallish vehicle were passing as one of those aircraft came in, it might get knocked over by the landing gear!
Peter
The runway at Saba is hairy, too:
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There are a LOT of unfun runways around... Air America used to 'specialize' in those... :-)
ReplyDeleteI believe that you need to be specially trained and approved by airport mgmt. to land at that airport.
ReplyDeleteI wonder how many traffic accidents are caused by touist drivers suddenly having a Twin Otter bearing down on them.
ReplyDeleteLooks like a fun airport. I grew up in Juneau, AK. Lots of planes around there. Lots of mountains and oceans and trees. Precious few flat spots. I saw a lot of interesting landing spots. My brother owned a small plane, but sold it after less than 300 solo hours. He said he had WAY to many "good" stories about landing seaside with bears, and wheel-tracks coming out of and ending in creeks on either end of the beach under a ceiling falling as fast as the snow, creating "landing strips" with a chainsaw and machete, and repairing holes made by crows ("not all hundred-mile-an-hour tape is actually good for much over a 65 knot airspeed"), landing his tail-dragger with a 40 MPH stall speed in 45 mph wind, and such things--- he could read the writing on the wall, got out while he could.
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