Worlds 10 most deadly airports

[InCrypt]

Hey guys! This is a shout out to you real life pilots - and those of us flight geeks who may be interested. I was watching a show last night called 10 most deadly airports. I wanted to know if any of you had experience with any of these airports. I wrote down the names during the show because I want to see if I can find these infamous airports in MS FS X. I want to give them a try myself! I was curious if anyone had any experience with them at all. Any stories you may have heard. Whatever! I just drink this stuff up!

InCrypt

10 San Diego International Airport/Lindbergh Field - SAN
- Congestion
- Parking Garage at the end of runway obstructing final approach.

9 Madera Portugal. Funchal (Madera INTL) - FNC
- Terrain (Carved out of a mountain side)
- Runway extends over ocean at 60 Ft
- Turbulent winds

8 Eagle Vale. Colorado USA. Eagle County Regional. - EGE
- Airport in a valley
- Unpredictable weather
- High altitude airport

7 Courchevel France. Courchevel Airport - CVF
- High altitude (6500ft)
- Built on mountain side
- Non-flat roller-coaster runway with Ski-jump type ramp at the end.

6 KAI TAK Hong Kong. Hong Kong INTL - HKG
- Congestion
- Visual checkerboard landing aid required (located on a hill side) as you can't see the runway until the very end
- Approach through down town buildings.

5 Gibraltar Spain (Actually part of Brittan). Gibraltar INTL airport - GIB
- Shares operation with Royal Air force
- Spain has restricted airspace forcing difficult approach
- A 4 lane highway crosses the runway.

4 St Martin (France but in the Caribbean) Princess Juliana Intl Airport - SXM
- Congestion
- 8500 foot mountains forcing a steep departure path
- Approach is over the beach. (Local pastime it to hold onto the fence as aircraft take off and "ride the jet blast" from the jets only 300 yards away.

3 St Barts (France, in the Caribbean close to St Martin) Gustav III Intl - SBH
- Congestion
- Low approach right over road traffic (5 to 10 foot clearance over street vehicles)
- Short runway (2100 ft)

2 Tegucigalpa Honduras. (Old call letters TNT) Toncontin Intl Airport - TGU
- Sort runway
- Step down approach through mountainous terrain.
- 60Ft cliff at end of runway

1 Lukla Nepal. Tenzing-Hilary airport - LUA
(Main airport for Everest expeditions)
- Short runway (1608 ft)
- High alt (9380 ft)
- Low visibility
- Uphill landing gradient of 12 degrees.
- Terminates in a hill so NO Go Around capability. It’s one shot do-or-die

[Shuffler]

I watched that show. Interesting.

[rpm]

Dutch Harbor isn't on there?

[flight17]

it wasnt deadliest, but extreme and the title should be changed for that.

The only ones i havent flown into on FSX are 9,8,7,5,1

[Soulyss]

I've heard that airport in Hong Kong is just nuts, planes have to contend with hills, the approach is over the city with housing going right up to the edge of the runway.  On the other end of the runway is water with little margin for error and there can be some nasty cross winds.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtnL4KYVtDE

[mbailey]

Intresting post, didnt get to see it but will keep my eyes open for when its on again.

Looks like you just completed Mbaileys top 10 list of places he doesnt want to go.

[gyrene81]

I don't know about deadliest but, the scariest one is when you're landing on the exact same runway that there was a deadly crash on just a couple of weeks before your arrival. You saw the reports showing the wreckage. Heard the weather was a contributing factor. You see lightning flash across the sky out your window, watching the descent to approach, just as you feel the landing gear lock and the end of the runway very close...rain starts pounding on the plane and it shakes heavily from sudden high cross winds. 

[InCrypt]

I just did Eagle Vale. Colorado USA. Eagle County Regional. - EGE. I did set Stormy weather, but I did it in a P51. It wasn't too bad - no where near as dicey as I had been lead to believe. I'll have to give it another shot, but this time in a Heavy civilian airlienr, instead of an over powered WWII fighter.

[Spikes]

4 St Martin (France but in the Caribbean) Princess Juliana Intl Airport - SXM
- Congestion
- 8500 foot mountains forcing a steep departure path
- Approach is over the beach. (Local pastime it to hold onto the fence as aircraft take off and "ride the jet blast" from the jets only 300 yards away.

Been there done that pastime last summer. Got to do it when an A340 was taking off.
We take a taxi from the cruise terminal. I get out of the car and first thing I see:

Immediately my jaw dropped...I didn't think I'd see anything more than a few prop planes in the few hours I'd be there.


Quick snapshot of the A340 before I ran up to the fence.

[InCrypt]

Krikey! That looks a might bit closer then the 300 yards I thought it would be!

[2bighorn]

How old is this show? Kai Tak was closed in last century, that's over a decade ago.

[Tupac]

Ive only flown into San Diego, but its kinda freaky when you look out the window and the buildings are higher than you are!

and a 1600 ft runway at 9300 feet? Thats a recipe for disaster

[InCrypt]

KAI TAK was aknowledged as being closed in 98. But it's reputation was so awesome that it still made the list.

[Spikes]

Krikey! That looks a might bit closer then the 300 yards I thought it would be!

300 yards? Hehe more like 50 yards tops!

I downloaded some Kai Tak scenery for FS2004 and it's fun flying planes on the approach path.

[trax1]

Been there done that pastime last summer. Got to do it when an A340 was taking off.
We take a taxi from the cruise terminal. I get out of the car and first thing I see:
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Immediately my jaw dropped...I didn't think I'd see anything more than a few prop planes in the few hours I'd be there.

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Quick snapshot of the A340 before I ran up to the fence.

Thats cool that you got to go there, while watching the show that was the one airport I wanted to actually go to, not only does that look like a lot of fun standing by the fence during takeoff's, but the view of watching them land looked just beautiful.