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| Thread ID: 80938 | 2007-07-10 03:36:00 | Freaken heck!!! Have you landed here JJJJJ? | FoxyMX (5) | PC World Chat |
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| 567563 | 2007-07-10 03:36:00 | Just got a PPS slideshow of Saint Martin airport, supposedly the smallest in the world . It looked a hoax so I Googled it and discovered that it is actually true . :eek: From Wiki: Princess Juliana International Airport — which opened a major new terminal in November, 2006 — is famous for its short landing strip —only 2,130 metres/7,000 ft, which is barely enough for heavy jets . Because of this, the planes approach the island flying extremely low, right over the beach . Photos of large jets flying at 10–20 m/30-60 ft over relaxing tourists at the beach are often dismissed as photoshopped, but are nevertheless showing actual landings . Check out the Google images ( . google . com/images?tab=vi&client=opera&hl=en&hs=BqP&rls=en&q=saint%20martin%20airport" target="_blank">images . google . com) and videos of the planes coming in and leaving . The massive planes taxi to the end of the runway, only 50 feet from the short fence at the beach . The runway is very short, so the planes must crank their engines to maximum for about 30 seconds before they release their brakes and roar down the runway . From here ( . igougo . com/planning/journalEntryFreeForm . asp?journalID=34394&entryID=16694&n=Watcing%20the%20Planes" target="_blank">travelchannel . igougo . com) Check out these pics ( . com/postt815 . html&view=previous" target="_blank">flyawaysimulation . com) . The wheels are almost touching the fence!!! :eek: Booked your tickets yet allblack? :D :D |
FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 567564 | 2007-07-10 04:15:00 | :lol: nice. it would kinda suck to be sunbathing there though.... get blown into the water by the thrust from the jets.:waughh: | wratterus (105) | ||
| 567565 | 2007-07-10 04:22:00 | You'd probably lose your hearing for the rest of the day too... | somebody (208) | ||
| 567566 | 2007-07-10 04:26:00 | Wellington Airport's runway is only 1936 metres but it doesn't take 747s now and is too cold for relaxing tourists. | PaulD (232) | ||
| 567567 | 2007-07-10 04:33:00 | Booked your tickets yet allblack? :D :D Hell yes! What a stunning place for spotters . I've looked at lots of pics of it on airliners . net . . . . . I am SO there with my camera! I've tried landing a 747 there on Flight Sim, with varying degrees of success . |
allblack (6574) | ||
| 567568 | 2007-07-10 05:07:00 | OMG !!! ( . airliners . net/open . file/201517/L/" target="_blank">www . airliners . net) and double freaken heck ( . airliners . net/open . file/1078774/L/" target="_blank">www . airliners . net)!! :eek: Good thing I'm not still on dialup or I'd be at this site ( . airliners . net/search/photo . search?placesearch=Philipsburg%20%2F%20St . %2" target="_blank">www . airliners . net 0Maarten%20-%20Princess%20Juliana%20(SXM%20%2F%20TNCM)&distinct_entry=true) all day . :D You'd probably lose your hearing for the rest of the day too . . . You mean permanently, more like it . :( Hell yes! What a stunning place for spotters . I've looked at lots of pics of it on airliners . net . . . . . I am SO there with my camera! I've tried landing a 747 there on Flight Sim, with varying degrees of success . Haha, but you're still alive to tell the tale . :D Well don't go without me will ya?! Do you reckon a month there would be long enough? My MX goggles will do but where can we get super industrial strength ear muffs? :p |
FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 567569 | 2007-07-10 05:33:00 | I've seen some of those pics before... several years ago. But I've got a mate on another forum who's a pilot for an airline based in Hong Kong, and I'll ask him if Hong Kong's old airport was worse than that... I bet it was! | Greg (193) | ||
| 567570 | 2007-07-10 05:37:00 | Those pilots must have nerves of steel . They can't afford to make even the slightest error at places like that . I've never been to HK but my sister has and she said they were eyeballing the office workers in the high rise buildings as they came in to land . Totally freaked her out . :D |
FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 567571 | 2007-07-10 06:11:00 | I've never been to HK but my sister has and she said they were eyeballing the office workers in the high rise buildings as they came in to land.True. You can get a bit of an idea by zooming in here (wikimapia.org). (broadband recommended) | Greg (193) | ||
| 567572 | 2007-07-10 06:40:00 | Those pilots must have nerves of steel . They can't afford to make even the slightest error at places like that . No, all copies of FS are linked back to a big server . There are enough people playing it that there's always a few people simulating landing at any airport . The server just averages out the commands of all the players for a particular airport and feeds the results to the autopilot . That's much cheaper than paying trained pilots . :cool: |
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