ScottyScoob

http://66.98.140.62/flightlevel350.c...cat=24&pic=160

Would be great to go to this beach, just not stay in the hotel next to the it.
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Suresh

Cool vid. The jumbo seems so low you can almost touch it.

Suresh

ScottyScoob

LOL @ the people on the right of the vid legging it

Buckrogers

That looks very very low, surely the people on the beach must get some "jet wash" from the plane?

Where abouts is St. Maarten?

King RA

The airport at Lanzarote is exactly the same, no jumbos though.

ScottyScoob

St Maarten Juliana Airport Netherlands

if you go to airliners.net and search for st Maarten theres pretty impressive pics

ALi-B

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Obviously you haven't flown into the "old" Hong Kong airport....seeing what people are watching on their TV in their apartment whilst flying past really is something else.

One of the car parks at Heathrow is a grin too

Jerome

IIRC the planes now land at a new runway, so you can't watch this anymore.

Apparently, they had to ban dogs from the beach because people would throw their dogs in the air and the poor pooches got thrown 30 feet into the sea

Daz34

davyboy

That maybe an Island owned by the Netherlands, but thats never the Netherlands!

marky1

It's Dutch Antilles in the caribean, I've actuall flown into that airport. On the plane you don't notice anything out of the ordinary.

Leslie

The last bit of the approach to Ascension Island is a bit like that, in fact the runway was a bit higher than the beach. Used to be a bit turbulent sometimes at the last bit.

The approach to the Hong Kong airport (Kai Tak) was one of the best ones to do. The turn onto the last bit of finals was a real thrill and going past the flats made you feel like a licensed hooligan!

Les

SJ_Skyline

Antigua is pretty rough

Some clot left a 50ft hill to one side of the approach so you get wind shear right across the runway at ground level. the effect is that as you come in to land all is nice and smooth, the wheels touch down and the back of the plane goes sideways. Fine at Castle Coombe in a 200sx but in a 777 its a little more worrying!

Nothing like Hong Kong though!

66 Blue

Wow is this for real??? looks mad!!!! great for plane spotters I guess although it may be difficult to identify the aircraft

Faire D'Income

There is a degree of artistic licence to any of these shots showing the approach to St.Martin and you certainly don't notice it as a passenger. Last year we were sailing in this area and apart from the noise as they go over which makes them seem lower they didn't hit the mast.

If you really want to scare yourself then I can make a better suggestion. On the same holiday I did a few hours with an instructor which leads to a form of certification which is required by the airfields there. Look up St.Barts or Statia, both of which have a short RWY, obstacles on final and in the case of Statia a 300m elevation which consists of a sheer cliff.

angrynorth

To do this on the cheap pop yourself over to John Lennon Airport, Liverpool. No jumbos but there is a car park just behind the runway.

Scoob99

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Kin Ell

marky1

St Barts you come in over the beach don't you? Unless I guess you have to come in from the other end where there is a hill? Have to say didn't seem that bad but there again I wasn't flying!

Faire D'Income

I think the RWY orientation for St.Barts was 09 or something close to that, the approach to which takes you in over the bay where you seem awfully close to the masts below but the main problem is the hill prior to the RWY which can produce violent windshear. From what I can remember, I was using full flap, side slipping and having to keep a close eye on speed which was nervewracking when the stall warner trips off. Luckily, I had an instructor with me as I wouldn't fancy banging in there without prior knowledge. The RWY is also very short - less than 700m.

Richard Askew

Awesome pics

farmerwrx

car park at gatwick is a bit scary ,jumbo's are bbbbiiigggg,got back from cacun jumped in the wrx battery flat as a flat thing, planes setting the alarm of all the time they are so low

EddScott

On the way to school in my younger days we used to have to pass in front of the runway and RAF Brize Norton. When a plane is landing traffic lights come on and you have to stop.

You can walk under the flightpath too which is quite cool. About 4 years ago they had a Stealth doing all sorts of acrobatics right over head. Don't know what USAF planes were doing at Brize tho.

Paulo P

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Excellent video and pictures I'm not sure I'd want to be on that beach though PMSL at the people running in the video You'd think they'd never seen a plane before

Nicci

The pictures above are insane (no broadband so I haven't d/l the clip)

I landed at Antigua once and it felt normal, the worrying thing was seeing a crashed plane just a minute or 2 before landing.

I also landed at the old Hong Kong airport, sadly I didn't have a window seat but I could see the buildings, it was weird, especially the low turn. I thought the landing was very hard, as I couldn't see the ground I thought we were crashing.
I have couple of pics I took from standing at the end of the runway as a reminder.

I think Copenhagen has a runway near the sea. I remember landing there a few years ago. As the plane descended I thought we were going to land on the sea. Suddenly the runway appeared and we touched down to my relief.