Is this real?

[Crockrocket94]

I just stumbled upon this.

Anyone know where it is?

 

[SpiraMirabilis]

Juancho E. Yrausquin Airport.

 

[fholbert]

I just stumbled upon this.

If I remember correctly it's pretty short for the scheduled flights that use it.

Not near as bad but similar features would be California's Shelter Cove.

http://160knots.com/Shelter Cove.htm

 

[spasekace]

Juancho E. Yrausquin Airport.

Yup, Saba Island in Dutch West Indies
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IIRC 1300' and Winair is the only service in there.

 

[RICHARD5]

If I remember correctly it's pretty short for the scheduled flights that use it.

Not near as bad but similar features would be California's Shelter Cove.

http://160knots.com/Shelter Cove.htm

Frank, great picture. I don't what kind of winds Juancho E. Yrausquin Airport gets but every time I had been to Shelter Cove the winds were 270-33018G35.

 

[fholbert]

Frank, great picture. I don't what kind of winds Juancho E. Yrausquin Airport gets but every time I had been to Shelter Cove the winds were 270-33018G35.

I gave my wife a good camera for Christmas... It was self serving.

I've only been to Shelter Cove twice and I don't remember the winds being bad.

 

[BEEF SUPREME]

I gave my wife a good camera for Christmas... It was self serving.

I've only been to Shelter Cove twice and I don't remember the winds being bad.

They get really, really bad there. Shelter cove is the only place I have seen a waterspout.

If you go over the hill to Garberville there are some really nasty downdrafts if it is windy.

 

[RICHARD5]

They get really, really bad there. Shelter cove is the only place I have seen a waterspout.

If you go over the hill to Garberville there are some really nasty downdrafts if it is windy.

One winter day I saw 17 spouts form off Pt Sur. The winds were out of the south and the rock would form eddies. Several were twisted sisters. They would crawl over the beach and dissipate inland. A couple hit my 1 ton van and I seriously thought the van would flip. I beat it out of there.

That whole redwood coast inland of the first coastal range can be brutal with downdrafts.

 

[scooter2525]

I've flown over shelter cove before. Would love to land sometime.

 

[TFaudree_ERAU]

My boss says he flew into Saba once; the fire department suits up every time there's a take off or landing. Said it really reassured him on his decision to fly to the shortest commercial use runway in the world.

 

[swisspilot]

My Dads company use to fly to Saba all the time, there is not much on the Island, but surprisingly there is a University Campus for Medicine, lots of American students.

The entire Island does not have any beach, other then couple small patches of dark sand. the Island is actually the top of a Volcano.

There are many airports like this, when I use to live in the region we use to land at a private airport on the edge of a cliff, it was probably 2000` long. But what makes Saba unique are the scheduled flights.

 

[Pilot0486]

I love using SABA in our simulator for short field T/O and landings. One way in and one way out!

 

[CDNPilotDave]

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My new favorite Youtube video. Thanks.

 

[Boris Badenov]

Those dudes made the first turnoff! :rawk:

Still, 1300 is plenty. I could put a mitsi in there with a few hundred to spare without even breaking a sweat. It'd leave by boat, though.