The most troublesome airport!!

[francsal]

I read somewhere that this airport was really difficult... had to give it a try. (Ecuador - SESM)

As you can see, the field is surrounded by mountains, and they are about 2,500 feet high!

To make a long story short, I was partially succesful at it. However, when trying to fly one last time to (I tought) take a glamorous final shot, well, take a look at the last pic.

Again, any comments are welcome.

P.S. Damn SiS chipset...









Ahh... finally out of this bowl... man, it sure would be nice to fly over it and take a pic....



Well, I guess that the 172 doesn

[Lethal.Ambition]

haha i been there before.

Not to brag or anything but me, hell I got a chopper out of there with my eyes closed.

[Jared]

been there as well, flew a globe swift out of there after circling for altitude about 5-6 times around in there..:-)

[bm_727]

Wow this airport seems to be coming up a lot recently take a look at this :
http://www.simviation.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=fs2002;action=display;num=1075567327

There's another airport featured in that post and boy is it fun

[Gixer]

80WA is a fun little strip to get in and out of too. Its in Washington State.

[Jared]

cool, will try it out later tonight when I get home! :-)

[codered]

A porter or maule would be the best bet....

[Gixer]

Yeah I got the FSD Pilatus Porter. Its the best bush plane ever I reckon! loads of power to carry out steep climbs, and it can land at really small strips due to its slow speed capabilities.  Here's a few pics!

[ReverseThrust]

Looks a place only too take your hilo or harrier!

Seems there are a lot of those in FS and in the world.  The Doherty's approaches packages at AVSIM have quite a few in them that I've flown.  Gives a good excuse to nose dive a 757!!

You have to wonder:  if there's a big flat plateau around, why build in the pit?

[Woodlouse2002]

I managed to get an F16 out of there. Just rammed the throttle home and whoooosh! Out.

On the more spectacular side I did get a Lancaster out aswell. And a Tigermoth.

[bm_727]

Sorry to change the subject francsal , but boeingman, your signature pic is making me sooo mad !!

I can't figure out if its real or a screenshot!!!!!!

P.S.- I have a challenge; who can fly an AN-225 outta there with realism settings @ max? Post your screenshots!

[ReverseThrust]

bm_727:
Sorry about the frustration!
That is a REAL picture, saved from airliners.net.

[bm_727]

[quote]My screenshots are nowhere near the caliber of that shot!

[francsal]

I managed to get an F16 out of there. Just rammed the throttle home and whoooosh! Out.

On the more spectacular side I did get a Lancaster out aswell. And a Tigermoth.

Yeah, after the frustration on getting the 172 out, I decided to "cheat" a bit and do it on an F-15... piece of cake.... And with the cessna, well I actually managed to get out of the bowl, but when I tried to fly over it to take a pic from the top, well the little bugger didn

[bm_727]

Thanks for the compliment  ;) And that shot's not even edited ...

Oh, and btw.... those pics of the 380 flying inverted are stunning!!!!

Yeah, thats Ozzy for ya'