Couple a good sized rocks next to this field.

[falcon20driver]

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/875932/L/

 

[Stifler's Mom]

Just remember, on departure fly RUNWAY HEADING!

 

[minitour]

I thought this was gonna be about the girl behind the FBO Counter...

-mini

 

[pilotpat]

Now that's crazy!! I wonder how bad it is when the wind kicks up? And where is the FBO girl......

 

[A Squared]

OH, The title led me to believe that picture would be of an airport with mountains very close the the runway, like this:
Rocks

Alternate View:

More Rocks

 

[avbug]

What a beautiful place.

Pilotpat, if you look closely at the shot of Innsbruk, you'll see the big space next to the rocks...that's where you fly. The size of the rocks doesn't really matter, so long as you're not flying into the rocks. I guess that would be another "difficult airport," wouldn't it.

Said it before...difficult pilots, not difficult airports.

Fly into the light, pilotpat. Fly into the light...

 

[BE90flyer]

Another "I'm the greatest in the world" remark from AVBUG

 

[Traumahawk]

What a beautiful place.

Pilotpat, if you look closely at the shot of Innsbruk, you'll see the big space next to the rocks...that's where you fly. The size of the rocks doesn't really matter, so long as you're not flying into the rocks. I guess that would be another "difficult airport," wouldn't it.

Said it before...difficult pilots, not difficult airports.

Fly into the light, pilotpat. Fly into the light...

Again...Pompous @ss Moment.

While some here may view things with a varying amount of perspective, I'd say under windy conditions and IFR this, along with many other airports can be difficult. I guess it all depends on what difficult means to you.

Does it mean something you might approach with a higher level of respect/concern...or for others, does it require everything they have?


For instance...Mile-Hi and others in Idaho may just be places that require simply more attention than you might pay when landing your supercub on a 5000ft wide grass runway in Florida. More planning and preciseness.
For others that know their limitations, it may require everything they have as far as skill, nerve and reaction to the unexpected.
This perspective often changes with experience.

You know, Avbug is never really impressed with anything or anyone on the 10 or so boards that he somehow finds time to frequent. So many great aviators have showed us how they accomplished great things in the face of what they thought to be difficult.
When Don Sheldon landed on the side of Mt Mckinley sitting at 11,000+ft, for the first time, he said many aspects of it were extremely difficult, so difficult that the Rescue pilot/Alaskan Bush Flying Legend's hands & Feet were trembling as he lined up on final. He then proceeded to land on the same site several more times. So many, that it was to the point where he could almost do it with ease.
If he were alive today I doubt he would spend his time dishing out criticism towards pilots of varying experience that he doesn't even know, let alone act like there is nothing in the world that impresses him.
THATS an EXPERIENCED, SECURE Pilot.

T-Hawk

 

[DGdaPilot]

Buuuuurrrrn

 

[Lrjtcaptain]

V1, rotate, V2.........positive rate, gear up..........WOOP WOOP, TERRAIN, PULL UP!