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The most troublesome airport!!

PostPosted: Tue Mar 02, 2004 6:33 pm
by 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... ;D ;D ;D

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Ahh... finally out of this bowl... man, it sure would be nice to fly over it and take a pic.... ;D
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Well, I guess that the 172 doesn

Re: The most troublesome airport!!

PostPosted: Tue Mar 02, 2004 7:48 pm
by 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. ;D ;D

Re: The most troublesome airport!!

PostPosted: Tue Mar 02, 2004 8:00 pm
by Jared
been there as well, flew a globe swift out of there after circling for altitude about 5-6 times around in there..:-)

Re: The most troublesome airport!!

PostPosted: Tue Mar 02, 2004 8:33 pm
by 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 ;D ;D

Re: The most troublesome airport!!

PostPosted: Wed Mar 03, 2004 7:26 am
by Gixer
80WA is a fun little strip to get in and out of too. Its in Washington State.

Re: The most troublesome airport!!

PostPosted: Wed Mar 03, 2004 10:33 am
by Jared
cool, will try it out later tonight when I get home! :-)

Re: The most troublesome airport!!

PostPosted: Wed Mar 03, 2004 11:10 am
by codered
A porter or maule would be the best bet.... ;D

Re: The most troublesome airport!!

PostPosted: Wed Mar 03, 2004 4:10 pm
by 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!

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Re: The most troublesome airport!!

PostPosted: Wed Mar 03, 2004 5:35 pm
by 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?

Re: The most troublesome airport!!

PostPosted: Wed Mar 03, 2004 5:44 pm
by 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. :D

Re: The most troublesome airport!!

PostPosted: Thu Mar 04, 2004 8:10 pm
by bm_727
Sorry to change the subject francsal :-[, but boeingman, your signature pic is making me sooo mad >:( :P ;D!!

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

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

Re: The most troublesome airport!!

PostPosted: Thu Mar 04, 2004 8:17 pm
by ReverseThrust
bm_727:
Sorry about the frustration!
That is a REAL picture, saved from airliners.net.

Re: The most troublesome airport!!

PostPosted: Thu Mar 04, 2004 9:01 pm
by bm_727
[quote]My screenshots are nowhere near the caliber of that shot!

Re: The most troublesome airport!!

PostPosted: Fri Mar 05, 2004 1:13 pm
by 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. :D


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

Re: The most troublesome airport!!

PostPosted: Fri Mar 05, 2004 3:22 pm
by bm_727
:-[ Thanks for the compliment  ;) And that shot's not even edited ;D...

Oh, and btw.... those pics of the 380 flying inverted are stunning!!!!
Yeah, thats Ozzy for ya' ;)