Is this Airstrip for real?

[wilderobb]

Try this airstrip out. "SFS Airpark" (80WA). It's just southwest of Port Angeles Wash. (KCLM).  Is this a real airstrip or what!! I can get down the hill and land with my Katana but taking off is real challenge!! Let me know what you think...

[afi0yz]

Yep its a real airstrip, I've never flown to it or seen it though, I'll check it out in FS

[Moach]

i believe this to be another one of "FS's gnarly airfields"...

there are a number of places like this throughout the FS world... they're obviously not accurate, but there's something really cool about an airfield inside a 3000 foot deep crater

i managed to take off AND LAND on it with the cessna grand caravan... what a rush!!!

now let's try it with the 737 (yeah, right)

c ya

Moach

PS: if you want to see some REALLY nasty strips, fly a few miles north of anchorage and see how many you can spot... i like to call this area "the airport junkyard"

[afi0yz]

I just took a cessna in there there is no hill for me though, its a floating runway about 100ft above the ground

[Bell206freak]

I've actually seen the real 80WA SFS Airpark.  Too bad that the default (and add-on) terrain mesh messes with it like it does, because it's nowhere near a crater! LOL

I like to fly there sometimes in FS. I'll take off from my home port of Sanderson Field (KSHN - Shelton) and fly up the U.S. 101 corridor along Hood Canal. Some excellent scenery and terrain detail can be seen if you have the FSFreeware 38.2M terrain mesh for the West Coast installed (unfortunately, though, Washington State is in the largest file there - the 256MB one!).

From there, I try to land my Bell 206 or 407 there and then fly to Forks or Quillayute and then back across the Olympic Mountains to Shelton again.. In all, it's about a four-hour flight with refueling.