updated tnx to JM
1) Small Saint Barth airport, usually served by planes carrying fewer than twenty passengers.
2) This airport is located on Saba Island (Netherlands Antilles) and is probably one of the most extreme airports in the world. Pilots that agree to land here should be paid millions! More photos inside.
1) Saint Barth airport
2) Saba Island airport
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The 1st picture and the 3rd picture are NOT from Saba but are from the island of St Barts. (Also a fun landing because it is down hill)
The other pictures are from Saba.
JM is Very Correct. St. Barts is a very interesting approach. I am well familiar with in and out and they only go one way there. If you examine the ramps etc. you will see that they are nothing like Saba. Pilots going into St. Barths have the biggest balls.
I think the lukla airport is way gnarlier. I flew out before it was paved, and there was a tree just past the end of the runway. The runway was very steep, which it had to be since it was too short. They would tug the plane to the top of it, lock the brakes, gun the engine, and then pop the brakes. You rocket down towards the valley, and they pull some G’s and bank out to avoid hitting the other side of the valley. exhilirating…
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i don’t see what is so “extreme” about this… its a short runway, but these are prop planes landing..
The Saba airport is only real short.
St.Barts on the other hand, is pretty cool, pretty steep approach angle it seems, anyone know exactly how steep the final is?
to answer #3, prop planes don´t magically land on short airfields, the planes shown are DeHavillandCanada Twin Otters, special short field planes, probably the most successful short field commuter aircraft in the world, which is why you’ll see them anywhere the airports are lacking.
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Thats one nice Island.
I LIKE IT, ITS A BEAUTIFUL SETTING. ONE NEVERS SEES A HIGHWAY ABOVE AND A AIRSTRIP FOLLOWED BY A BEAUTIFUL BLUE BAY.
This is the same runway, if u remember a game for N64 called pilot wings. well the runways on it its pretty cool.
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