KL-666 wrote:8800 ft, that is less than 1000 meters! Just on the border of GA and Turbo Prop on my map. Expect many overruns, and dead pilots and passengers. I'll do it, with overheated brakes. But maybe for wide bodies a more realistic location is Cold Bay.
Edit:
Oops, i just realize that i miscalculate by a factor 3. 8800 ft is almost 3000 meters and quite sufficient for wide bodies. Anyway, Cold Bay is still a good alternative too
Kind regards, Vincent
LMAO
Yes... on all accounts,
1. its about 3000 m long. The scheduled service in Juneau is mostly seaplanes, and GA all to turboprops. So you were also accurate there. [RL] Larger craft I've seen logged in here are 73x from ASA.
2. I can see
myself overruning this runway, overheating the brakes and even catastrophically failing my landing attempt.
[Cherry on the cake: I'll be tired after flying 10h and thus I will be the most nervous-myself.]
3. But, on paper, it should be doable
which makes it a real temptation
4. Cold Bay (PACD) is a good alternative, well located airport to divert if we get the chills
. It's alternative to Anchorage, and its also pretty. It's also somewhat closer to PGSN than Juneau, and makes for a wee-lil-bit better distributed flight segments for Sat, and Sun; but
Juneau has a certain something in the beauty surrounding the approach and subsequent take-off. If I recall correctly, Cold Bay is where J. Maverick landed during his participation on the last leg of the USA tour(?)
Best,
IH-COL
PS: I've never landed either of these airports in Flightgear. Not Cold Bay, nor Juneau.... Not even Portland Jetport
So I repeat to myself...
I better start practicing those landing skills.