World's Most Dangerous Airport

[kryan11]

This looks crazy, not a whole lot of room for error.

http://mashable.com/2014/10/28/dangerous-airport-landing/?utm_cid=mash-com-fb-main-link

 

[Cptnchia]

Quito was always fun at night in IMC, and old Tegucigalpa was a hair raiser.

 

[z987k]

Putting words like most is dumb. I'm sure about 10 people will be along to show you more dangerous ones.

 

[Maximilian_Jenius]

Uh oh... at min 0:44 the Captain said he's going to disconnect the autopilot, and hand-fly the plane the rest of the way in. Don't tell @ATN_Pilot!

 

[MikeD]

and old Tegucigalpa was a hair raiser.

USAF Reserve found that out the hard way in 1997...

 

[cmhumphr]

Wow! That's the earliest I have ever seen any Bus driver disconnect the autopilot! That was great. Pretty interesting to know that the EGPWS is normal for departure.

 

[Maximilian_Jenius]

USAF Reserve found that out the hard way in 1997...

What happened...?

 

[MikeD]

What happened...?

Wisconsin reserve unit C-130 overran the runway on landing and went off the hill at the end. Fatal.

 

[Cal Goat]

Those guys sound like Alaska pilots: "Only locals know how to fly into this airport." Come on, give me a map and VFR conditions and let me try.

 

[derg]

One of my coworkers told me how much more experience he had flying over the ocean than the check airman that gave him a line check.

It's not like it isn't something trainable. Unless, of course, there's this secret "Knights of the Templar"-style living canonization that I missed out on.

 

[bunk22]

Found it, the most difficult, night carrier landing...

 

[derg]

Found it, the most difficult, night carrier landing...

SAIL!

 

[Crockrocket94]

Psh, you have lights on.

 

[killbilly]

Found it, the most difficult, night carrier landing...

That's....amazing. I don't know how you guys do that.

The closest I think I ever came to that was flying into KAQO (Llano, TX) around 1am on a moonless night.

Which you could probably do with your eyes closed, but that night, I remember thinking that it was the closest I'd ever see to a carrier landing. I had about 70TT at that time.

 

[derg]

Psh, you have lights on.

Tom Bodette said he'd leave them on for us.

(Google it, Millennials! GOSH!)

 

[jskibo]

Tom Bodette said he'd leave them on for us.

(Google it, Millennials! GOSH!)

Tom Bodett ...... Damn non spelling Captains!

 

[B767]

Tom Bodette said he'd leave them on for us.

(Google it, Millennials! GOSH!)

You made a reference I actually understood!

 

[derg]

Tom Bodett ...... Damn non spelling Captains!

The letters are too small and I don't know where my reading glasses are!

 

[derg]

You made a reference I actually understood!

Blame it on @Minuteman. We're in a cultural civil war to out "aroo?!" one another with obscure humor.

 

[Boskru]

"there is calm in the cockpit despite the autopilot being turned off..." Oh no, the autopilot was turn off, we're all going to die!! With comments like that being published in the news, its no surprise that people freak out when they hear of "hand flying" an airplane.