Check out this runway!

[Northern Lights]

LINK
LINK #2

 

[HAL]

Links don't work. Try the photo ID# instead.

HAL

 

[414Flyer]

They work for me..Unless he just managed to fix them

 

[Pilot124]

Works fine....Cool runway

 

[buckdanny]

Courchevel is a ski resort in the French Alps. Those airports are called "altiports" and there are a few over there. Each requires special flight training and an endorsement to use! They consist of a steep, short runway. You take off downslope and land upslope regardless of the wind. On the approach, there is a (visual) point of no return, where a go around is not an option anymore. I never got to use any of those, but I heard a lot from pilots who did fly out of those in the old days when I used to be french.

Buck

 

[Super 80]

Neat. Nice pictures. Thanks for the explanation. Gotta have your ducks in a row to do that.

 

[Kingairrick]

Wasn't that one in a Bond flick?

 

[FracCapt]

Courchevel is a 1700' strip(at 6500'MSL) with a slope as much as nearly 20%. Obviously, it's land one way, depart the other. I almost got to fly in there once in a Twin Otter. We did the full brief, and the other guy with me was "qualified" for that airport. We didn't get to go because the weather was crap...so we all sat in a pub and drank like Vikings.

 

[F16TJ]

FracCapt...

At least the day wasn't a complete bust!

 

[pair_of_pratts]

Check out these pictures of the airport (about a 1/4 of the way down the page).

http://members.aon.at/~slenz/dash7.html#courchevel

 

[T-Gates]

Wasn't that one in a Bond flick?

I was thinking the same thing....

 

[Flashback]

I would hate to try to land there lol

 

[Loafman]

Courchevel is a 1700' strip(at 6500'MSL) with a slope as much as nearly 20%. Obviously, it's land one way, depart the other.

You can take off the other way, you just need four wheel drive.

 

[F16TJ]

Oh my...

Loafman, YOU are the new avitar CHAMPION!

 

[Sniper@YourFeet]

Obviously, it's land one way, depart the other.

So, you'd depart downhill and land uphill. But, if you look at the picture (#2), the aircraft is on short final to land downhill, no?

Anyone been to St. Louis? STL's main runways look allot like those approaching form the east (or they do in my memory).

 

[FracCapt]

But, if you look at the picture (#2), the aircraft is on short final to land downhill, no?

What, the Cessna? It looks to me like it's landing uphill, and the photographer is standing at the top of the hill.

 

[HairOnFire!]

Looks to me like he's landing uphill, too. I've landed at STL several times and the slope there is nothing like this!

 

[HairOnFire!]

And , yes, Loafman, you are the bouncing avatar KING!

 

[Av8trxx]

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/519674/M/
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/415641/M
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/482104/M/
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/354705/M/

 

[Flying Illini]

the second link in the above post shows what look like skid marks heading towards the mountain...