What airport would you say is not for the faint-hearted pilots out there? Where is the most challenging and scary place to land In your opinion?
I’m not talking about somewhere that has regular commercial service from jets, I’m talking about somewhere hidden between mountains that only a few people have visited.
Could be anywhere. I’d bet that there’s thousands of airports around the globe that would contend for that spot.
Lukla has a heart-stopping approach for many pilots.
While serviced by jets, you could try Aspen. Tenzing-Hillary Airport (the gateway to Mt Everest) is a lot of fun and serviced by prop planes.
St. Barth’s (TFFJ) was suggested to me by @Wiggygodsky. It has a steep hill right before landing.
Ah, yes… good ol’ TFFJ.
If you don’t pitch down enough, you land too far and end up in the ocean.
If you pitch down too much, you fly into a steep hill and probably a street with lots of people on it.
KMMH 27 takeoffs are fun, MMOX is a neat airport, KSBS (not HDN) is a little hairy, but PHLU, Kalaupapa airport on North shore Molokai is absolutely incredible.
2700 footer, on the little peninsula that has the old leper colony, at the base of 2000 foot cliffs. When the winds pick up, the rock beaches on either side of the runway get battered by waves, blasting spray up 40 feet into the air just short for the threshold.
Absolutely stunning little airport with so much history.
Try bush landing ,yestrday i did landing in alps monte rosa glacier,and make it spicy and fly expert server
Most the airports in southeast Alaska.
if your a bit too lazy try KSFO and try to get a parallel approach hehe
SEQM or Quito has a fun approach with all the close mountains :)
If you want an Adrenalin rush, go to Alaska! The bush flying there can be really intense — the weather changes in mere minutes. And landing on 50 foot stretches of landing strip, some of the bush pilots do it everyday! If you like mountains, great! The state has 4 mountain ranges (I think). If you want a non commercial airport, and get an adrenalin rush, just go anywhere in Alaska!
Airports cramped in the Canadian Rocky Mountains.
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There’s a ring of small fields around Ranier. Fantastic approaches through crevices.
VQPR is for me the hardest airport to do an approach. Its surrounded by high mountains in the himalayas. I’ve approached there multiple times and I always nearly crash when on final.
I think we have a couple more than that. The most notable that I can think of off the top of my head are the Brooks Range, Alaska Range, Chugach Mountains, and possibly a couple others that I forget the names of.
Yeah, Ketchikan is a hard one. I did that the other day. It’s mainly difficult on the sides of the runway, so you have to kinda go straight in.
Try Innsbruck. I only say those two words when people want hard approaches.
Hard approaches are the best. Most in IF are too easy!
Sarajevo, in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Situated in the mountains.