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Started by Admin in Ski Chatter 14-Oct-2010 - 12 Replies
Admin posted Oct-2010
Channel 5 now - mountains and snow seem to be a feature... Courchevel looks fun!
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Crispyapplepie
reply to 'Worlds Most Extreme Airports' posted Oct-2010
watching this now, brilliant! Courchavel 7th most dangerous runway in the world... yikes. :shock:
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Baillie353
reply to 'Worlds Most Extreme Airports' posted Oct-2010
I just watched this programme on Five On Demand.. I skied past that exact runway in January this year - Remember looking at it and thinking.. what the... Needless to say I had to stop and take a picture!
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GummyBear
reply to 'Worlds Most Extreme Airports' posted Oct-2010
To be honest i cant quite understand how this wasn't the most extreme airport, it had nothing on the others, absolute madness. I take my hat off to all the pilots who can land a plane on that thing !
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Tony_H
reply to 'Worlds Most Extreme Airports' posted Oct-2010
The one is Alpe d'Huez gets my vote. And lets be fair, landing at Innsbruck takes some beating in a 757
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Baillie353
reply to 'Worlds Most Extreme Airports' posted Oct-2010
You're quite right Tony, our appartment in Alpe D'Huez looked directly onto the runway and I managed to catch a video of a plane taking off;
A chairlift actually runs underneath the runway through a little tunnel (at the end of the runway) - known as the scare chair, simply for its ridiculous height that you don't know about until it's too late and you're sitting on the chair looking down.. Rather fun really
A chairlift actually runs underneath the runway through a little tunnel (at the end of the runway) - known as the scare chair, simply for its ridiculous height that you don't know about until it's too late and you're sitting on the chair looking down.. Rather fun really
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Dave Mac
reply to 'Worlds Most Extreme Airports' posted Oct-2010
Innsbruck is exciting to land in. There is an issue that if required, some airlines can do a turn within the valley walls, and some cannot. One of those that can not do a valley turn is a major TO. The same TO has landing equipment restrictions, so when visibility is impaired........
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Ian Wickham
reply to 'Worlds Most Extreme Airports' posted Oct-2010
I must say i did enjoy the Innsbruck take of and landing last year :thumbup:
Topic last updated on 16-October-2010 at 22:02