Ack! "insane 747 landing"

http://www.geekologie.com/2007/06/in...47_landing.php

Thats the way its done! Long approach landing on a short runway. I
can't wait to visit that beach someday.

"Hawkeye" wrote in message
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Thats the way its done! Long approach landing on a short runway. I
can't wait to visit that beach someday.

I want to visit it also. Anyone know how long the runway is? It certainly
doesn't have an underrun.

Danny Deger

Gattman wrote:
http://www.geekologie.com/2007/06/in...47_landing.php

That's not unusual at the Philipsburg/St. Maarten - Princess Juliana
airport in the Netherlands Antilles (SXM / TNCM)

Go to http://airliners.net/ Do a photo search for "St. Maarten"
There are lots of photos like these: http://tinyurl.com/3dtaey,
http://tinyurl.com/3bf2gn, http://tinyurl.com/38wxde, and
http://tinyurl.com/2j6m8d


- John (blown away) Ousterhout -

"John Ousterhout" wrote

Go to http://airliners.net/ Do a photo search for "St. Maarten"
There are lots of photos like these: , http://tinyurl.com/3bf2gn,
http://tinyurl.com/38wxde, and http://tinyurl.com/2j6m8d

I don't know if anyone else noticed it, bit in http://tinyurl.com/3dtaey
there is a guy standing there holding a windsock up! Too Funny! :-))
--
Jim in NC

"Gattman" wrote in news:13b7fj15ke38sd3
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http://www.geekologie.com/2007/06/in...47_landing.php



Not insane, just the way you have to do it.

There's a couple of places just like this, but there's one in particular
that makes this look relatively tame and that Ajjacio, Corsica. It's up a
Fjord.
When the wind favors it, you land on the runway with the appraoch over the
beach (and it's quite short, about 7,000 feet) but when the wind blows the
other way you have to thread your way through a few mountains on a very
tight right hand pattern. Watching Corsair do it in a 747 is simply
amazing. I've done it in a relatively miniscule A300 and it does maintain
your interest..



Bertie

In article ,
"Morgans" wrote:

http://tinyurl.com/3dtaey

Looks to me like the windsock is in the background.

"Dale" wrote

Looks to me like the windsock is in the background.

Yeah, as I looked at it again, I started to think that might be the case.
Perhaps a helicopter company at that end of the runway.

Still funny, though. Put up a windsock so the landing pilots can get a last
quick look at the wind conditions? g
--
Jim in NC

"Morgans" wrote in message
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"Dale" wrote

Looks to me like the windsock is in the background.

Yeah, as I looked at it again, I started to think that might be the case.
Perhaps a helicopter company at that end of the runway.

Still funny, though. Put up a windsock so the landing pilots can get a
last quick look at the wind conditions? g

Why the grin? The wind sock is put up there for exactly that reason. One
last look at the winds before touch down. Pilots of 747s need this
information just as bad as pilots of J-3 cubs.

Danny Deger

On Aug 3, 5:46 pm, "Gattman" wrote:
http://www.geekologie.com/2007/06/in...47_landing.php

Scroll down to "St. Martin Airport" he

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