did you know that Barra Airport (Eastern Scotland) has its runways made of sand ?
If fact this airport uses the beach as a runway so you can only land on it if the tide is low. Wouldn’t it be great to have this airport added in IF ?
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Yep, I knew that. Did you know that they have ten minutes to ready the plane for departure after landing or else it’ll get washed away?
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Yeah, old story. Didn’t know the ten-minute thing though.
It’s because they have to spend most of the tide time clearing the runway of shells and stuff.
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Now who was the genius who decided, “hey lets build an airport on a beach where there are active tides!”
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The same people probably built TNCM too. :/
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It’s St Maarten right ?
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Yes. A google search could have given you the answer.
Have you seen the Gibralatar one ?
It’s impressive
@Cdt_Aupetit this is not the place to discuss these kind of airports, make a new topic if you want to discuss them.
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