Twenty-three terrifying airport runways.
And the list doesn’t even include LaGuardia Airport in New York, with its runway in the middle of New York harbor.
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You can find many of these runways demonstrated for real on youtube.
Here is the one in Honduras…listen to the mother telling one of her kids not to be afraid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-SQBgea0oA
Here is St. Maartens
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCIJ0F62og4
Yeah, I have landed at La Gaurdia hundreds of times in my life, and some of them have been really rough. I remember once being sure the pilot would not be able to stop.
Awesome, thanks for the links Jim.
If you get a chance, freeze frame that KLM jet when it is over the beach in St. Maartens…is that insane, or what?
Courchevel requires an airport ‘type’ rating to use.