I decided to make my personal top 10 when it comes to the most exciting and interesting aproaches to airports around the world. You can see a real life video of each as I manage to find them on Youtube.
10. Madeira Funchal, Portugal (LPMA)
09. Isafjordu, Iceland (BIIS)
08. London City, UK
07. Courchevel, France (LFLJ)
06. Sion, Switzerland (LSGS)
05. Kerkira, Greece (LGKR)
04. Innsbruck, Austria (LOWI)
03. Lukla, Nepal (VNLK)
02. Tegucigalpa, Honduras (MHTG)
01. Kai Tak, Hong Kong (VHHH)
Showing posts with label airport. Show all posts
Showing posts with label airport. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Monday, February 8, 2010
Free airport and airline databases
Openflights
Provides two different csv databases, one with airports and the other with airlines. Airport database contains close to 6000 entries covering most of the big airports around the world. Airline database is quite big as well (over 9000 entries). Also the websites offers a route database. The OpenFlights Airport, Airline and Route Databases are made available under the Open Database License.
OurAirports
Largest public domain airports database I could find. Contains over 43000 airports from around the world. The files are released under public domain.
The Global Airport Database
Over 9000 airports under Common Public License.
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Safest place to place a tall building
Exactly under the glide slope of the active runway of a busy airport, 100 meters from the threshold.
Seems someone did it for real: http://www.airliners.net/photo/0493224/L/
I remember a funny real story about some investors built a group of houses exactly on the runway center line of a capital's second airport. When people came to mount the new ILS installation for that end of the runway they figured out that one of the light poles would have had to be built exactly in one of the living rooms. Seems the houses were built so close to the runway that if the plane came 50 meters lower on approach would have ment bye bye roof.
Seems someone did it for real: http://www.airliners.net/photo/0493224/L/
I remember a funny real story about some investors built a group of houses exactly on the runway center line of a capital's second airport. When people came to mount the new ILS installation for that end of the runway they figured out that one of the light poles would have had to be built exactly in one of the living rooms. Seems the houses were built so close to the runway that if the plane came 50 meters lower on approach would have ment bye bye roof.
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