Favorite/hardest airport to land at

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Surprised no one has mentioned Aspen.

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Situational Awareness John /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif lol

Actually 2 reply or 3 post on this topic RP mentioned Aspen.

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Luc what are you doing up so early - I was deleting while you posted.

Thanks for the insult by the way. Just what I like in the morning, be compared to Brian_Jesus.
 
Telluride definetly is challenging.

We landed the T206 out at a little town in Kansas a couple of years ago. It was an 1800' grass strip with trees at the end. Once you were down you down you would taxi the plane right to the hotel in town, it was really sweet. The T/O was a white knuckler though. It think that place was called Beaumont. Familiar to anyone? Fun place, very pilot friendly.
 
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Flying here in Florida has lots of challenges. The thunderstorms are almost every day in the summer. But back to the topic. My favorite airport to land in is Key West (EYW). It's paradise 2 1/2 hours away from me in s skyhawk. Land there take a quick 5 minute cab ride to Mallory Square and watch the sunset party every night.

The most challenging airport that I have come across in florida has to be Cedar Key (CDK). It is 2300 feet, runway is in ok shape. It's on an island so if you don't have good short field you might have to swim.


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I_Wanna_be_ATP, where do you fly out of??

CDK is, by far, the most challenging airport I've flown into. GREAT little - and I mean LITTLE strip. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif
 
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I'll say the airport where I did a lot of my primary training at... GA27 (Mathis - formerly 84A). It's about 1500' x 20' with no lines, no lights, and no numbers. Basically it's a land-based aircraft carrier with a slight curve and flush-mounted grave markers on one end (RWY 03 approach end). Watch out for the winds through the valleys at each end and the trees on each side. Here's more --> GA27 at AirNav.com

I would love to fly into some of the airports ya'll are mentioning. It sure keeps you current in one way or another.

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You did primary training out of Mathis?? Man, I bet your runway alignment skills are top notch /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif... You ever flown into Whispering Pines by chance GA80 ? Its private, but Im sure you've flown over it at some time or another. It's more like a fly-in neighborhood then fly-in community... you taxi your plane up all these streets out in the woods to get where you are going.
 
I would have to say landing at the Grand Canyon National Park Airport in a DHC-6. The A320 into JFK over the water was cool too.
 
Spruce Creek is my favorite to land at. Where else can you taxi your Citatoin up to your house?
 
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Spruce Creek is my favorite to land at. Where else can you taxi your Citatoin up to your house?

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Well, assuming your have enough money to own a citation, you could probably afford to buy a landing strip and pave it.
 
But can you just buy a lot and make a landing strip? How long does it take for FAA approval?
 
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But can you just buy a lot and make a landing strip? How long does it take for FAA approval?

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Depends on what you call an airport....

I know a guy with 5500' of concrete runway in KY....he actually got approval from the state, but not from the FAA.
 
what would it take to get faa approval for a private airstrip...could he legally land there? seems like he could since alaskan bush pilots drop onto all sorts of strips....
 
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We landed the T206 out at a little town in Kansas a couple of years ago. It was an 1800' grass strip with trees at the end. Once you were down you down you would taxi the plane right to the hotel in town, it was really sweet. The T/O was a white knuckler though. It think that place was called Beaumont. Familiar to anyone? Fun place, very pilot friendly.

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Yeah, check this out Beaumont Hotel website and here is an article on this place. Check it out some day. SW Aviator article
 
I can't think of any regulation that prohibits you from landing anyplace...any takers?

Now, to get your strip charted and whatnot, well, that's a whole different can of nightcrawlers....
 
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I can't think of any regulation that prohibits you from landing anyplace...any takers?

Now, to get your strip charted and whatnot, well, that's a whole different can of nightcrawlers....

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thats pretty much what i was thinking........
 
From my limited span of airports visited, I would have to say my favorite would include 33N (DE Airpark Cheswold, DE) because it's home and I enjoy flying home

and MTN (Martin State, Baltimore, MD) . . . I like coming in to Rwy 15 with the bay off in the background, and taking off over it.

As far as a challenge . . . CBE (Cumberland, MD apt atually in WV though) . . . The town and airport is situated in a valley between the hills, and the airport is situated up on a cliff . . . coming in short is NOT an option.

and HEF due to the traffic. Flew in recently and the pattern was a madhouse. Props to the tower for being able to orchestrate the entire thing. Trying to fly in, in a 172 is tough when you're getting cut off by Super King Airs and having various bizjets coming in as well as other piston prop traffic.
 
HEF was fairly busy when I was down there, but just wait until you get into some Class B primaries. I've flown into MDW in a Caravan twice, and that was a trip!

J.
 
Im only working toward my solo right now, so im not as experienced as a lot of you...But, KFUL, in SO CAL, 3100 feet of runway, strict noise abitement rules, with this RED fence in the end that seems to bug some people, and not enough open area to make an emergency landing, at the end is a very busy street and beyond that someones home....and its always an x wind landing over at 24 and 6....
 
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But can you just buy a lot and make a landing strip? How long does it take for FAA approval?

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It should be a long skinny lot.
 
I think I posted this on another thread sometime, but Copalis State (S16) on the Pacific coast of Washington is pretty sweet. It's just a beach designated as an airport - land on the sand, and watch the windsock up the shore. I flew DE727UPS's old Cessna 140 out there one day about 6 years ago.

You gotta check the tide tables before you go, lest the runway be under the surf at your ETA. You don't want the tide to come in and wash your plane away when its parked, either. You're guaranteed a steady crosswind off the water, too.

The damp sand is surprisingly firm!
 
I always thought of my favorite airports based on the food served there so I"ll throw out those. Sedona,AZ-Eggs Benedict
Indepence,OR- Turkey on Sourdough North Bend, OR- Chinook Winds Casino, Blackjack with a rum and coke (only on overnights of course) /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif
 
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