Worst Runway ever??

[Kream926]

13 at the 19R intersection at RVS kinda sux. big 'ol dip in at the intersection. but then again, biggest thig ive flown is a barron 55

 

[Hovernut]

McMurdo, Antarctica. Had a friend on a C-130/skis when on the t/o roll, impacted some sort of obscured chasm or shelf where the airplane slammed to a stop and I think 2 of the props kept going down range. Took a while to get the a/c airworthy again!

 

[DA50pilot]

Chihuahua, Mexico

 

[the_dimwit]

Chihuahua, Mexico

Yeah...I hear the landings there are really ruff, ruff!

Thank you...Hear all week.

--Dim

 

[DA50pilot]

Yeah...I hear the landings there are really ruff, ruff!

Thank you...Hear all week.

--Dim

LOL; Good One

 

[crash-proof]

Guatemala. Big dip, lots of rubber deposit in the end, nice drop off etc. Circling VOR in mountain terrain.

A barrel of fun

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/090334/M/

Hey I bet that brown stripe running down the side of that dropoff is where that TACA 767 went 4x4! Cabin video right here
http://www.airdisaster.com/download/taca.shtml

 

[klingon67]

Id have to agree with SNOW BACK, Cliff Dwellers is something else. Blackington , about 20 east of Palomar (CRQ) is interesting. We had a female instructor that took a student in there in a 150 and taxied back and wouldnt takeoff . She had to call people to come and get her. One of my favorites is Catalina Island Airport, not a bad airport but is a little interesting.Fallbrook California is another good one.

 

[Indigo]

I could not find it in the Air Nav database for Colorado so I am unsure if the airport still exists, but back in the late 70's I was a passenger on a commuter hop (Fairchild Metro) that landed on a strip situated on a ridgeline of one of the moutains near the Community of Beaver Creek.

You're thinking of Avon, which no longer exists. I remember riding in a Jeep with some surveyors up on the slopes that became Beaver Creek (1979 or 80?) and seeing an airplane land there.

http://www.airfields-freeman.com/CO/Airfields_CO_W.htm#avon

 

[kilroy]

Narsarsuaq, Greenland BGBW. 6400 feet long slope is 12 at approach and 112 at the end. Also note the iceberg warning for approach. Twice we had to dodge an icberg going in http://www.slv.dk/Dokumenter/dscgi/ds.py/Get/File-826/AD_2_BGBW_ADC.pdf


Also check out this site.. How many of these airports have you been to.

http://dangerousairports.com/dad/?PHPSESSID=ccef4f9b657ea6f5798127115e0a2b85

 

[El Bucho]

Can't believe nobody has mentioned either Morristown, NJ (MMU) or the jolt you get off that small crossing runway in PHL. I think MMU takes the cake because no matter which way you go, you just get rocked....

 

[Almerick07]

Hicks airport in Ft. Worth (T67), on short final a train ALWAYS seems to crossing dangerously close to the mains. Not to mention about about a 10 degree gradient and paved by water bed manufacturers.

http://www.airnav.com/airport/T67 check out the aieral shot and how insanely close the railroad tracks are to 32

 

[WizardPilot]

. Not to mention about about a 10 degree gradient and paved by water bed manufacturers.

Hell, Water bed? Asphalt? WE CAN DO IT! We just have to bid the lowest! yay!!!...

 

[coolyokeluke]

Also check out this site.. How many of these airports have you been to.

http://dangerousairports.com/dad/?PHPSESSID=ccef4f9b657ea6f5798127115e0a2b85

I've landed at just two, Kodiak and Unalaska (Dutch Harbor).

 

[WMUSIGPI]

Marsh Harbour on Abaco Island. That coral stuff is hell on high pressure tires and the potholes are bad for all involved. Combine that with the free for all coming and going and everyone treating the airspace there as class G (uncontrolled flight in IMC) and it's a place I am happy never to return to.

 

[414Flyer]

I have landed at one on that list, Sondrestromfjord Greenland. I think Zuni NM should be on there. Surrounded by mesas, runway lights that are broken by locals for fun, occasioanal cinder blocks left by locals who go out there on the runway and drink, high density altitude (6500 ft elevation), short for the elevation but skinny and rough to make up for it.

When going in there at night in a 414, I would just try and put it down on the runway firmly and get the weight on the wheels. The runway has some undulations in it too, so i would forget about flaring or a nice landing and just try and get the plane on the runway firmly so i could get it slowed down.

 

[Y2fly]

Elk River Airport (NC06) West N.C. Private use only, the runway is 4600' X 75', but the first 800' of RW-30 has a 5 degree downgrade. the airport is 3450' MSL, Mountainous terrain in all quadrants, about 5,500'. The best way in is RW-12 and depart RW-30. You have to dog-leg the approach a little left for RW-12 to clear the ridge at the end of the run way. On the way out use 30 there is a large hill at the end of RW-12. We were in a King Air 200 and I don’t think we could have cleared it. A right turn about 15 to 20 degrees will set you up to climb out between the ridges. They have five wind socks along the runway, but their all going different ways. It’s tight! and in a bowl! Note: Do not land there unless it has been pre-arranged, the guards are not vary friendly

 

[VVJM265]

Also check out this site.. How many of these airports have you been to.

http://dangerousairports.com/dad/?PHPSESSID=ccef4f9b657ea6f5798127115e0a2b85

Been to four: Nice (LFMN), Palermo (LICJ), Reggio, (LICR), and Mostar (LQMO). Surprised that Sarajevo and Gibraltar aren't on there.

 

[comander]

Hey I bet that brown stripe running down the side of that dropoff is where that TACA 767 went 4x4! Cabin video right here

naw I dont think that stripe is from that time howber thats exactly where it whent. its a small poor residential area called santa fe, wich coincidentaly means holly faith.

thats the faith those people have to have so a plane wont get them in the middle of the night.

 

[satpak77]

ALL of these are difficult runways

Tecucigalpa, Honduras (American took out some trees on final a few years back)

Ayacucho, Peru (polish up on your NDB skills) - runway on top of cliff and has a hill in the middle

Juliaca, Peru (elev 12,546), with a "interesting" full VOR approach

Bogota, Colombia 12-R (expect landing clearance in the flare). Its the right side, think its 12, maybe 13-R, cant remember

 

[comander]

Tecucigalpa, Honduras (American took out some trees on final a few years back)

Ayacucho, Peru (polish up on your NDB skills) - runway on top of cliff and has a hill in the middle

Juliaca, Peru (elev 12,546), with a "interesting" full VOR approach

Bogota, Colombia 12-R (expect landing clearance in the flare). Its the right side, think its 12, maybe 13-R, cant remember

now where talking....... been at tegucigalpa xcountry under heavy rain last year and i needed to pee.