swisspilot
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location of the airport, not my shot:
747 landing into the Jungle
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location of the airport, not my shot:
touch-n-go
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Where is this?
Patrick
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Second this!
dasleben
That's just, like, your opinion, man
Going to guess Paramaribo, Suriname. 
I've done a fair amount of flying into Georgetown, Guyana (next door to Suriname), and it's nothing but dense jungle from the perimeter fence onward. It's kinda scary, but if you go down even 4-5 miles from the field, they'll never get to you.
I've done a fair amount of flying into Georgetown, Guyana (next door to Suriname), and it's nothing but dense jungle from the perimeter fence onward. It's kinda scary, but if you go down even 4-5 miles from the field, they'll never get to you.
swisspilot
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Going to guess Paramaribo, Suriname.
I've done a fair amount of flying into Georgetown, Guyana (next door to Suriname), and it's nothing but dense jungle from the perimeter fence onward. It's kinda scary, but if you go down even 4-5 miles from the field, they'll never get to you.
The airport is actually about 30 miles into the jungle from the city of Paramaribo....
Yo have seen Guyana, imagine, there are about 120 strips all over that dense jungle, and many get daily flights. Tomorrow I m going to take a 206 about 100 NM into the jungle, hope to get some good pictures..
CirrusMonkey
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Does KLM have scheduled service into there??
Going to guess Paramaribo, Suriname.
I've done a fair amount of flying into Georgetown, Guyana (next door to Suriname), and it's nothing but dense jungle from the perimeter fence onward. It's kinda scary, but if you go down even 4-5 miles from the field, they'll never get to you.
I've been there twice.
And yes, that is some thick jungle. I flew a non-GPS IRU-only 757 down there and that thing was all flavors of lost.
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dasleben
That's just, like, your opinion, man
Man, we took a 767 down there, and it's on a short list of places I really don't care to go again. But at least we had GPS! (First on the list is Port-au-Prince, Haiti).
Haven't flown Port-au-Prince yet... YET
Where did you guys stay in GEO? I went down there with a captain who ended up on my "Do not fly with" list. Type of guy that almost invited you to take it to the chief pilot because he's been there, nothing happened, and it's just big "time suck" for you in the end.
Story best told over beer.
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swisspilot
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Haven't flown Port-au-Prince yet... YET
Where did you guys stay in GEO? I went down there with a captain who ended up on my "Do not fly with" list. Type of guy that almost invited you to take it to the chief pilot because he's been there, nothing happened, and it's just big "time suck" for you in the end.
Story best told over beer.
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overnight in GEO???
swisspilot
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yes, SLM and KLM have service from and to AMS (A340 and B747)...flights are always full. Emirates will start a daily service next year.
dasleben
That's just, like, your opinion, man
Haven't flown Port-au-Prince yet... YET
Where did you guys stay in GEO? I went down there with a captain who ended up on my "Do not fly with" list. Type of guy that almost invited you to take it to the chief pilot because he's been there, nothing happened, and it's just big "time suck" for you in the end.
Story best told over beer.
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I don't recall where we stay in GEO; I just did through-stops there anyway, on the way up to Trinidad. I heard our crew hotel was a fairly long drive, but wasn't terrible.
Haiti...I guess it's good to check off the list, just to say you've done it. I have no interest in going there again, and I was there a full year and a half after the quake. The poverty is mind-boggling; only place comparable I've seen to it is Africa, and even that wasn't full of rubble from an earthquake nobody's cleaned up yet. My favorite was being cleared for an ILS that wasn't even operational!
...somehow the FAs loved it, though. They were chatting about how fun it would be to have the airplane break and us go into crew rest there. NOPE. Get back on the plane. We're leaving.
swisspilot
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GEO is actually not in Georgetown, it`s about 30 miles away.....in an other town, they have a scheduled air service between GEO and the actual Georgetown airport.
In Port-au-Prince you gotta go to the Hotel Oloffson, really cool spot.
Paramaribo is on a total different level, parts of the city look like Beverly Hills, minus the hills, massive mansions filled with luxurious cars, Olympic sized pools....very little to no poverty....
CirrusMonkey
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That's cool.
TFaudree_ERAU and I brought a Hawker into St. Kitts(godforsaken desolate island airport that if I'm never there again it'll be too soon) a few years back. As we were walking to the terminal we were kinda joking with the handler about the British Airways safety vest he was wearing and when was the last time they came in here. "777 twice a week!"
TFaudree_ERAU
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Swatting hypoxic flies was a good way to kill 3 hours.
swisspilot
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Caribbean Islands, other then for the Grenadines have very good connections to Europe and the US, but between islands it`s a nightmare....
What`s impressive it`s Cayenne, pop of 60K but have two flights a day to Paris, and it`s not even a tourist location.
TFaudree_ERAU
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We were hanging out in Santiago, D.R. one fine day when all the line service techs started to congregate outside. I asked our handler what was up. He got really excited and told me that a 747 was on approach.
Ernest Angley was coming into town to rob people.
Ernest Angley was coming into town to rob people.
ComplexHiAv8r
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TFaudree_ERAU said:
Nice SP!