Madeira calls for topnotch landing skills

[Byker]

[JR[_4_]]

On Mon, 18 May 2015 15:40:08 -0500, "Byker" > wrote:


And that's the EASY runway. Before the extension, years ago, landing
there was pretty much the closest a large civilian aircraft would get
from landing in a carrier. Only specially certified TAP pilots would
go there...

[Byker]

"JR" wrote in message ...
>
> And that's the EASY runway. Before the extension, years ago, landing there
> was pretty much the closest a large civilian aircraft would get from
> landing in a carrier. Only specially certified TAP pilots would go
> there...

And now if you go off the end of the runway, it's a sixty-foot plunge into
the ocean...