Courchevel Airport
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| Courchevel Airport | |||||
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| City | Courchevel, France | ||||
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| Runway | Length | Material | |||
| 05/23 | 525 m | Concrete/Asphalt | |||
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Courchevel's airport has a certain degree of infamy in the aviation industry as home to one of the shortest runways in the world, with a length of 525 metres and a gradient of 18.5% in order to help slow landing aircraft. The airport has a dangerous approach through deep valleys which can only be performed by specially certified pilots. On landing there is no go-around procedure, as most of the worlds airports have - there is merely a very steep hill which has seen a few accidents since the airport first opened.
