Always a very difficult landing...

cumulus1978 · 23 Oct 2011 at 18:59

here at the Airport of Lugano, one week ago a friend of mine came from Geneva and the pilot had to repeat 4 times the landing, that's because ( especially in particular conditions ) the landing is rather difficult ( they say ). I'm not a expert of aviation but here you can see a video of a landing.

http://www.meteosottoceneri.ch/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=55&Itemid=56

nikeair94 · 23 Oct 2011 at 19:05

cumulus1978 said:
here at the Airport of Lugano, one week ago a friend of mine came from Geneva and the pilot had to repeat 4 times the landing, that's because ( especially in particular conditions ) the landing is rather difficult ( they say ). I'm not a expert of aviation but here you can see a video of a landing.

http://www.meteosottoceneri.ch/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=55&Itemid=56

Tell him to try it on a flight simulator and see how they compare.

Jokester · 23 Oct 2011 at 19:06

Really want to give that fan filter a clean.

ToejaM · 23 Oct 2011 at 19:10

Sigh I watched the video and laughed because there were skidmarks on the landing strip.. I dont even.. :<

RomanNose · 23 Oct 2011 at 19:14

Why is there a car in the sky?

cumulus1978 · 23 Oct 2011 at 19:26

chaosdestro0 said:
Why is there a car in the sky?

It's sure a private flight, but pilots must have a certificate for landing in Lugano.

cumulus1978 · 23 Oct 2011 at 19:27

In fact now I found something...HAVE A LOOK HERE

http://listphobia.com/2009/06/17/10-most-dangerous-and-difficult-landing-strips-in-the-world/

Lugano-Agno’s instrument approach procedure is quite challenging because of its steep angle of descent of 6.65°which is double of the standard approach. This is due to its geographic location in the mouth of a valley.

paddy · 23 Oct 2011 at 20:23

There is a good video of a take-off and landing at Courchevel - freaking scary!

wez130 · 24 Oct 2011 at 15:04

There's an airport in one of the Scandinavian countries, where the pilot has to double back on himself on approach, that looks freaky.

Cosimo · 24 Oct 2011 at 15:07

chaosdestro0 said:
Why is there a car in the sky?

It just took off.

Firestar_3x · 24 Oct 2011 at 15:09

Nasty!

Had a few bad landings recently, few weeks ago our helicopter diverted to Soyo to pick up one guy, came into do a rolling landing and a rather large dog was busy running across the runway, we missed it by about 3ft would have been nasty if we hit the dog and it got thrown into the rotors.

Other one was landing in Kinshasa, the runway seemed to be missing and we landed on what felt like a field, we hit to floor so hard I thought the undercarriage was broken.

doofer · 24 Oct 2011 at 15:16

Define difficult. :cool:

Skeeter · 24 Oct 2011 at 15:16

That looks awesome!

Steve_bullockuk · 24 Oct 2011 at 15:41

I always think these sort of pictures look slightly 'shopped. Surely they can't be real?

RomanNose · 24 Oct 2011 at 15:42

Steve_bullockuk said:
I always think these sort of pictures look slightly 'shopped. Surely they can't be real?

That airport is real and that plane is real, the margin of error on that is so small. I don't even want to think what would happen if he was 1 metre out.

Cosimo · 24 Oct 2011 at 15:51

Cosimo · 24 Oct 2011 at 15:53

Cosimo · 24 Oct 2011 at 15:59

Princess Juliana International Airport:

cumulus1978 · 24 Oct 2011 at 16:04

simulatorman said:
Princess Juliana International Airport:

Yes already seen some video of those airports. have you seen this article?
I didn't think that Lugano was in the first 10 difficult airports of the world.

http://listphobia.com/2009/06/17/10-...-in-the-world/

Fourstar · 24 Oct 2011 at 16:06

I think I'd prefer riding the fence to risking the beach!