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 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