Kip Powick Posted January 11, 2008 Share Posted January 11, 2008 Gives a whole new meaning to "ground-looping" off the side High Runway Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.O. Posted January 11, 2008 Share Posted January 11, 2008 That would be Funchal airport in the Madeira Islands. Some of our pilots have flown into that airport from the UK bases. We have to give the Captains special simulator training before flying there. Nasty winds coming off the mountains cause significant mechanical turbulence that have led to several tail strikes and such. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moon The Loon Posted January 11, 2008 Share Posted January 11, 2008 You should have seen it before they built the extension. 5200 feet of shere terror. Also the place my Dad was born. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kip Powick Posted January 11, 2008 Author Share Posted January 11, 2008 Also the place my Dad was born on a runway ?!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjsa Posted January 11, 2008 Share Posted January 11, 2008 on a runway ?!! now that would be a REAL hard landing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Perkins Posted January 12, 2008 Share Posted January 12, 2008 Here's another angle from underneath. The picture doesn't do justice to the size of the "hall" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moon The Loon Posted January 12, 2008 Share Posted January 12, 2008 on a runway ?!! Runaway would be more like it! He ended up joining the RN during The Big One in memory of the skipper of HMS Hood who he met when he was a pre-teen when Hood visited Madeira. Five years later, that was the end of that friendship. He enlisted when he was 17 (he lied) then got kicked off the boat to go learn to fly. In Canada. BCATP. He left Funchal when he was 11 and didn't go back until 1978. That's when I first heard about the carrier approach and deck landing skills of the local 737 classic drivers. Scared the crap out of everybody! Now it's autobrake 2 and idle reverse. Where has all the fun gone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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