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#2700332 - 03/30/09 06:54 PM Pilots need a special licence to land at the strip on the island of Saint-Barthlemy  
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#2700333 - 03/30/09 06:55 PM Re: Pilots need a special licence to land at the strip on the island of Saint-Barthlemy [Re: bud01]  
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I bet Billzilla could land on that strip with no problem! biggrin


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#2700334 - 03/30/09 07:03 PM Re: Pilots need a special licence to land at the strip on the island of Saint-Barthlemy [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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The front wheel on the blue motorbike is cut off!


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#2700357 - 03/30/09 07:44 PM Re: Pilots need a special licence to land at the strip on the island of Saint-Barthlemy [Re: adlabs6]  
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Originally Posted By: adlabs6
The front wheel on the blue motorbike is cut off!


that's how they roll in Saint-Barthlemy

#2700371 - 03/30/09 08:08 PM Re: Pilots need a special licence to land at the strip on the island of Saint-Barthlemy [Re: El Hefe]  
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Why not approach from the beach side?


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#2700372 - 03/30/09 08:11 PM Re: Pilots need a special licence to land at the strip on the island of Saint-Barthlemy [Re: letterboy1]  
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Originally Posted By: letterboy1
Why not approach from the beach side?


If the pilot overshoots the runway and cant pull up, he'd plow right into traffic!


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#2700379 - 03/30/09 08:16 PM Re: Pilots need a special licence to land at the strip on the island of Saint-Barthlemy [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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Now, if the cars and bikes were cut off vertically instead of horizontally, the pilot would have more room if he had to go around.


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#2700410 - 03/30/09 09:14 PM Re: Pilots need a special licence to land at the strip on the island of Saint-Barthlemy [Re: adlabs6]  
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This is the pic before it was Gimped:

http://www.darts-page.com/images/plane_pic_improved.jpg

Note there is in fact a wheel on the lead motorcycle.

In fact, the original (as I present it) shows the airstrip is much, much harder to land on than the doctored one in the first post, as it had erased out other air traffic.


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#2700417 - 03/30/09 09:30 PM Re: Pilots need a special licence to land at the strip on the island of Saint-Barthlemy [Re: Dart]  
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Ah-HAAA!

My Photoshop detection skillz are honed after that Kim Jong Il stuff!





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#2700430 - 03/30/09 09:55 PM Re: Pilots need a special licence to land at the strip on the island of Saint-Barthlemy [Re: adlabs6]  
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I could like that. I love landing on challenging runways! smile


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#2700462 - 03/30/09 11:16 PM Re: Pilots need a special licence to land at the strip on the island of Saint-Barthlemy [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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Originally Posted By: PanzerMeyer
I bet Billzilla could land on that strip with no problem! biggrin


Erm, don't know about that!!

But I've flown around Papua New Guinea a fair bit and they have some interesting strips there.
Here's one, Fane ->



16 slope, no chance of a missed approach. That's one of the steeper ones, but there's plenty where there's no way of going around.


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#2700481 - 03/30/09 11:45 PM Re: Pilots need a special licence to land at the strip on the island of Saint-Barthlemy [Re: semmern]  
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Judging from the angle of approach the guys in the mini cooper are going to get one really close haircut.

LOL at Dart.

Are you this funny in person? It might be worth a trip to Georgia just to find out.


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#2700487 - 03/30/09 11:50 PM Re: Pilots need a special licence to land at the strip on the island of Saint-Barthlemy [Re: Wklink]  
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Tom,

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Substitute the word "nice" for "funny."

And the words "make love to you" for "make you laugh."

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To be honest, the UFO and the pterodactyls were my son's idea.

That poor plane is 'shopped in pretty badly, as are the vehicles.


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#2700519 - 03/31/09 01:05 AM Re: Pilots need a special licence to land at the strip on the island of Saint-Barthlemy [Re: Dart]  
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It's included in FlyTampa's St Maarten scenery for FS9 (and FSX as well I think). Very nice airport to land on, less than 10 minutes flying from Princess Juliana airport.


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#2700651 - 03/31/09 06:42 AM Re: Pilots need a special licence to land at the strip on the island of Saint-Barthlemy [Re: Billzilla]  
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Originally Posted By: Billzilla

But I've flown around Papua New Guinea a fair bit and they have some interesting strips there.
Here's one, Fane ->



16 slope, no chance of a missed approach. That's one of the steeper ones, but there's plenty where there's no way of going around.



Woah. I didn't know you flew the 747-STOL variant, the one modified by DeHavilland Canada, right?


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#2700734 - 03/31/09 12:58 PM Re: Pilots need a special licence to land at the strip on the island of Saint-Barthlemy [Re: bud01]  
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That landing strip in Papua New Guinea looks scary! Have any 80+ year old Japanese soldiers been found milling about near the runway still thinking it was WWII? biggrin


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