Challenging Airports

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This is inspired by a thread found on the FlightGear forums at the end of March/2009 ("Going to Mount Everest").

This page is meant to eventually help maintain a list of airports/places with challenging real life scenery and/or complex departure/approach procedures, so that this information can be used to showcase FlightGear aircraft performing interesting departures/approaches in challenging (e.g. mountaineous and windy) surroundings.

Various airports have been added here already, based on a related discussion by professional pilots on pprune.org.

Todo

• collect additional resources on each airport (e.g. aerial/satellite imagery)
• provide links to approach/departure procedures (i.e. IFR charts)
• provide description summarizing complexity/challenging aspects of airports
• provide the scenery file or lat/long in which each airport can be found

LUKLA Airport (ICAO:VNLK)

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lukla_Airport

Innsbruck Kranebitten Airport (ICAO:LOWI)

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innsbruck_Airport

Tribhuvan International Aiport (ICAO:VNKT)

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribhuvan_International_Airport

Quito Airport (ICAO:SEQU)

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quito_airport

Peshawar International Airport (ICAO:OPPS)

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peshawar_International_Airport

Leeds Bradford International Airport (ICAO:EGNM)

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leeds_bradford_airport

Samos International Airport (ICAO:LGSM)

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samos_Airport

Gilgit Airport (ICAO:OPGT)

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilgit_Airport

Closed/Other

Kai Tak Airport

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kai_Tak