The idle musings of a former military man, former computer geek, medically retired pastor and now full-time writer. Contents guaranteed to offend the politically correct and anal-retentive from time to time. My approach to life is that it should be taken with a large helping of laughter, and sufficient firepower to keep it tamed!
. . . and a good way to speed up your heart rate! This video was taken at and around the airport at Saint Barthélemy in the French West Indies.
You know, if a tallish vehicle were passing as one of those aircraft came in, it might get knocked over by the landing gear!
Peter
The runway at Saba is hairy, too:
http://youtu.be/bVdaFv6kbkw
There are a LOT of unfun runways around… Air America used to 'specialize' in those… 🙂
I believe that you need to be specially trained and approved by airport mgmt. to land at that airport.
I wonder how many traffic accidents are caused by touist drivers suddenly having a Twin Otter bearing down on them.
Looks like a fun airport. I grew up in Juneau, AK. Lots of planes around there. Lots of mountains and oceans and trees. Precious few flat spots. I saw a lot of interesting landing spots. My brother owned a small plane, but sold it after less than 300 solo hours. He said he had WAY to many "good" stories about landing seaside with bears, and wheel-tracks coming out of and ending in creeks on either end of the beach under a ceiling falling as fast as the snow, creating "landing strips" with a chainsaw and machete, and repairing holes made by crows ("not all hundred-mile-an-hour tape is actually good for much over a 65 knot airspeed"), landing his tail-dragger with a 40 MPH stall speed in 45 mph wind, and such things— he could read the writing on the wall, got out while he could.