I always used to enjoy the flight into the "old' Denver airport in a big
passenger plane. The Banking over the mountains was a bit like riding a
motorbike around a windy stretch of road. First you would see the ground from
the windows on the left, and then on the right. During storms I have seen some
VERY nervous passengers on the approach to that airport.
Landings to Peterson field / Colorado Springs just do not have the same "WoW"
factor!! ;-O
Regards
John Duggan,
Wales, UK
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From: Bill Pearce <bs.pearce@xxxxxxx>
To: Olympus Camera Discussion <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, 19 July, 2010 16:25:45
Subject: Re: [OM] photo from Michael Wong in Hong Kong
Last May, I went to honduras, where we landed at the tegucigalpa airport,
which I later found out is considered by many to be the world's most
dangerous airport. It is in a sort of bowl, with mountains on all sides. The
single runway is paralleled by a city street and apartments. The largest
that can land and take off there is the 757. There was an interesting DC3
along the runway that appears to be undergoing restoration.
That doesn't compare with flying just above the Colorado River below the
"mountans" from Blythe, CA to Yuma in a citation prototype.
Bill Pearce
Probably my scariest airline flights involved taking off from that airport
in a snowstorm. I had just reread the final report on the Air Florida crash
and noted that our pilots were doing exactly the same mistakes! (not enough
throttle, snow and ice covered wings). That take-off roll was LONG and we
barely got off the runway and that same 14th Street bridge was awefully
close. As I'd flown in and out of their dozens of times, I knew this was
not normal nor correct. As we were on the takeoff roll, I'd never felt the
need to get off as I did that flight.
AG
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