Balls of Steel Airlines

[Niehart]

Lukla is the airport for climbing Mount Everest og trekking in the Everest Region.

https://www.fark.com/vidplayer/7609628

 

[kamal]

Impressive!

I was just reading up on those CASA C-212 planes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CASA_C-212_Aviocar

I hadn't heard of them.

Al.

 

[Patriot]

 

[Tyler]

All yours... Yikes!!

 

[dcarver]

like the way passengers cheer when landed..

 

[Mihalis fjr]

Great Video Niehart!!

Thanks for sharing!!

 

[BkerChuck]

Funny to see this posted here. I actually have a friend who is going there later this year and trekking to the base camp. She's an avid runner and has completed marathons in Austrailia, Cambodia, and on the Great Wall in China!

 

[FJR Flyer]

Pretty sporty when they're rotating at the numbers on the departure end of the runway!

Walls and fences almost right up to the runway. If something goes bad, it goes really bad.

 

[ahchiu]

Great video, I love STOL planes, here's a landing you don't want to be a part of.

 

[Checkswrecks]

Impressive!I was just reading up on those CASA C-212 planes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CASA_C-212_Aviocar

I hadn't heard of them.

Al.

These are Dornier 228s from Germany, not CASAs. CASAs used to be distinctive by the hole they would make in the ground when crews tried to use reverse pitch on the props before touching down.

They are also not Fokkers.

The first of which was naturally called...

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...the Mother Fokker.

 

[mcatrophy]

I watched this plane landing.

(Click on image for larger view)



Apparently nothing unusual here. it's on the Shetland Isles, not a long runway, and it is normally very windy.

Pilot does this daily.

Go here to see a sequence, starting with the fire engine checking the runway, here.

 

[Burnspot]

Lukla is rated as one of the scariest, but so is Gustaff III (St. Barth)...wilder than Lukla in some ways, especially the "over the road" approach:



For great crosswind stuff, check out Wellington, NZ...extreme crabbing. I've been there a few times and nearly every time, the plane approaches in such a wide crab, you have a clear view of the runway from the passenger section all the way down just up to touchdown, where the pilot swings 'er around straight. Fun stuff!

 

[kamal]

Impressive!I was just reading up on those CASA C-212 planes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CASA_C-212_Aviocar

I hadn't heard of them.

Al.

These are Dornier 228s from Germany, not CASAs. CASAs used to be distinctive by the hole they would make in the ground when crews tried to use reverse pitch on the props before touching down.

They are also not Fokkers.

The first of which was naturally called...

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.

.

.

...the Mother Fokker.

Thanks for the correction.

I got the CASA connection from a comment on YouTube.