This looked impressive. At least to my untrained self.



Found this linked from another video. (I could get lost in YouTube for hours, that way.)

Thanks for trolling youtube for us. It saves the rest of us a lot of time. :-)

The video reminds me of Wau Airfield in New Guinea:

The grass airfield was built in 1927 and used by both sides in WWII. It was was a rough grass airstrip 3,100 feet in length with a 12% slope heading directly at Mount Kaindi. Aircraft could approach from the northeast only, landing uphill and taking off downhill. The mountain at the end of the runway prevented second attempts at landing.

I built the strip into a South Pacific scenario for a WWII flight sim. My buddies did NOT appreciate it. Take off was a sinch but landing there in a flight sim was tough because the perspective on hilly terrain isn't always quite right.

And I'm NOT equating flight sims to the real world.

In the real world you can't reboot.

Not a tricky landing, but I made this video of my flight to Lake Tahoe last weekend.

This is just as riveting for some reason.

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quote Originally posted by fierobear: Not a tricky landing, but I made this video of my flight to Lake Tahoe last weekend.

Cool video. Not a pilot but the approach looked pretty vanilla

You silly stiff wing guys. . . . . .

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Not too bad a site as long as the weather is decent. The worst one that I have personally seen is a 1200 foot runway on the side of a mountain in Saba. The approach is not that bad but the strip length makes it difficult. I would prefer reversible/beta mode props there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiVM0w9YquQ

The worst landing site that I have ever seen on film is a major airport in the Himalayan mountains at Lukla. Bad weather, short strip, and uphill landings with high mountains surrounding everything.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i8YsZXJUM0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMiXZqEnSd0

Nelson

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quote Originally posted by hnthomps: Not too bad a site as long as the weather is decent. The worst one that I have personally seen is a 1200 foot runway on the side of a mountain in Saba. The approach is not that bad but the strip length makes it difficult. I would prefer reversible/beta mode props there. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiVM0w9YquQ The worst landing site that I have ever seen on film is a major airport in the Himalayan mountains at Lukla. Bad weather, short strip, and uphill landings with high mountains surrounding everything. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i8YsZXJUM0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMiXZqEnSd0 Nelson

That's crazy. By comparison - the Space Shuttle Landing Facility at Kennedy Space Center is 300 feet.... wide.

My favorite is the uphill landing with that weird Russian long-nosed-where-the-hell-is-the-C.G.-in-this-thing aircraft in "Air America".

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Challenging approach, to say the least. I will only comment that the pilot allowed the plane to get much too low during/after the final turn and touched down a couple of hundred feet short of the runway's displaced threshold. That would get you an immediate fail on a checkride, and in the real world such lack of attention to detail can get you and your passengers killed ... as amply demonstrated at San Francisco last July.

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The distance from wing tip to the sides of the mountains can be a deception if you allow your eyes to wander. I've seen it happen with rotary wing too. I guess the angle of the slope is decieving, especially one side to the other.