Dangerous Airports....

....Or approaches. I thought i'd do a little selection of shots as the title suggests . This first installment is to a place i did'nt know i had until recently and it comes as part of the Fly Tampa St Maarten scenery, so we depart Juliana in a Twin Otter for the 10 minute flight to Saba.
Before start

Taxi out



Cleared to Runway09

Last checks

Away on our short flight







Our destination

That does look awful short



Steady

Touchdown and stand on the brakes



All that worry for nothing, there was loads of Runway left

Taxi in



Shutdown at Saba


Thanks for looking , i'll do another one when i can think of one.

Great shots as usual welsh! I haven't dared to try that approach yet.

Well you cant use an F/A-18 to land there
Wonderful shots Welsh, I find approaching from the other way a bit more sceninc, you get those huge rocks out in the water

Thanks Raz and Cheeks .
Next up, still using the "Twotter" we depart from Chambery to Courchevel in France.





















We're gonna land WHERE ?????

OH MY GAWD!!!!!















Thanks for looking and here's the real thing sound a bit iffy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNFNFZq2BFY

Wow!!
Im speechless, great shots as usual!!

Thanks Cheeks !
We move to Central America next with a little flight from Mexico to Toncontin in Honduras, never heard of it? Neither had i .
Everybody secure?

Good, here we go then

Lined up and ready

Rotate

Climb out









Descending

And now for the fun stuff
























My shots don't in anyway do this approach justice, so here's the real one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_z5HtME9n8

Can you give me a link to that Toncontin scenery please, and if you ask me, your best shots yet

Thank you Cheeks , the scenery is fly-tegucigalpa_v2.zip at Avsim.For some reason the Afcad does'nt work, so when you select a gate you're either in the terminal or the car park , but that's no problem on approach . But that's just a small problem compared to another i found in New Zealand, i added that to my addon scenery and now it's the ONLY airport in New Zealand, it somehow got rid of all other scenery there , needless to say i'll use it once and get rid of it!

Found another Toncontin landing, just take a look at this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJoXMcehrYo&feature=related

Perfect

+1

Wow!!!!!!! Impresive.

Thanks Westernstyle, hardly perfect but thank you anyway !

I really enjoyed your work. Ten of ten.

Great scenery, great pics, great flying!!

There is an AFCAD available for the Toncontin scenery at Avsim - mhtgv2_afcad.zip - seems to work

Great shots Welshy.

When i re-install FS9 i may try that lastest airport.

Thank you gents , and thanks for the afcad link Tailhook but i think i tried all of them at Avsim and none of them worked, i obviously did something wrong/put it in the wrong place (i don't know what though as i tried all the usual places ). Undecided as to the next one, but hopefully it will be up soon (work getting in the way of FS again )!

That's your best work yet, Welsh. Keep it up

Thank you !
Next we leave Kolkata in India for Paro in Bhutan in an aircraft that regularly flies into Paro, the Airbus A319 OF Royal Bhutan Airlines.











That's the boring stuff out of the way , now for the approach
































Here's the real one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMEviAW2pOU

Great shots Welshy. The Airport looks beautiful.

right looked to be very close...!!!! You must not drink much before flying....????


Great job...!!!

Nice

Thanks very much for all your kind comments gents !

The next flight (or dodgy approach ) is from Heathrow to Hong Kong/Kai Tak (come on, you knew it had to be in here somewhere ).
Sorry for so many shots.



























































If you got this far after waiting for that lot to load , thanks for looking . I did'nt post a link this time as i'm sure you've all seen the Kai Tak approach many times.

Great pics Welsh...

Can't wait for more.

Sweet

Thanks WS, that may be it unless someone can give me a few more ideas !

Ok, i got a suggestion for you, take off from LGTS or LGAV( Elefterios venizelos international) and land in Iraklion, but you must do it with a 747-400, yes it has been done in real life.

Stunning and inspirational...
...nuff said

very very nice man.....best pics ive seen in a while

OK... that does it ... I want your computer, all of your add-ons, your piloting skills, and your wonderful ability to get all of those magnificent screen shots. I will settle for nothing less!

Here's a sample of what I can do..............





Later ... Art

Thanks gents, great to see you back Art , Dimitrioscool i've done a flight into Iraklion and may post the shots tomorrow although i took off from Rome and did it in a DC-10.
Not a dangerous approach but it did make me want to go there on holiday !
P.s if anyone is thinking of downloading the Queenstown Airport scenery in New Zealand at Avsim, DON'T,when i installed it ,it became the only airport in New Zealand and although i've now got rid of it, somehow it took all of New Zealand with it ! New Zealand does'nt even appear in the countries list anymore . I've got to dig deeper now !