What is the weirdest airport you've flown from?

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OMG, some airports are weird!

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quixoticguide wrote: 20 Apr 2017, 12:07 What is the weirdest airport you've flown from?
It's not an airPORT, although there is a lot of water involved: the flightdeck of an American aircraft carrier (CV-59) in the seventies :)

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HdeBr wrote: 11 Jul 2017, 11:25 the flightdeck of an American aircraft carrier (CV-59) in the seventies :)
Nice experience! Welcome to Luchtzak, HdeBr.
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Hi,

1. Hong Kong Kai Tak
2. El Portillo ( Dominican Republic )
3. Vancouver Harbour ( seaplane )

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sn26567 wrote: 11 Jul 2017, 16:35
HdeBr wrote: 11 Jul 2017, 11:25 the flightdeck of an American aircraft carrier (CV-59) in the seventies :)
Nice experience! Welcome to Luchtzak, HdeBr.
Thanks! Just some additional information: we flew as passenger on a Grumman S-1 Trader, an overpowered 2-prop cargo aircraft, somewhere in the North-Atlantic. It was quite a sensation: shocklanding, with only 3 secs from touchdown to complete stand-still, and at force 7 winds, and being launched later by catapult in such a 'slow' aircraft - you really felt it in your stomach when it went 'overboard' at the end of the flightdeck.

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HdeBr wrote: 16 Jul 2017, 13:25 we flew as passenger on a Grumman S-1 Trader, an overpowered 2-prop cargo aircraft, somewhere in the North-Atlantic. It was quite a sensation: shocklanding, with only 3 secs from touchdown to complete stand-still, and at force 7 winds, and being launched later by catapult in such a 'slow' aircraft - you really felt it in your stomach when it went 'overboard' at the end of the flightdeck.
I guess this kind of sensational flights is reserved to military pilots or pax. Are you one?
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sn26567 wrote: 16 Jul 2017, 14:47
HdeBr wrote: 16 Jul 2017, 13:25 we flew as passenger on a Grumman S-1 Trader, an overpowered 2-prop cargo aircraft, somewhere in the North-Atlantic. It was quite a sensation: shocklanding, with only 3 secs from touchdown to complete stand-still, and at force 7 winds, and being launched later by catapult in such a 'slow' aircraft - you really felt it in your stomach when it went 'overboard' at the end of the flightdeck.
I guess this kind of sensational flights is reserved to military pilots or pax. Are you one?
No, I was a civilian guest - as a journalist.

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HdeBr wrote: 18 Jul 2017, 09:15
sn26567 wrote: 16 Jul 2017, 14:47
HdeBr wrote: 16 Jul 2017, 13:25 we flew as passenger on a Grumman S-1 Trader, an overpowered 2-prop cargo aircraft, somewhere in the North-Atlantic. It was quite a sensation: shocklanding, with only 3 secs from touchdown to complete stand-still, and at force 7 winds, and being launched later by catapult in such a 'slow' aircraft - you really felt it in your stomach when it went 'overboard' at the end of the flightdeck.
I guess this kind of sensational flights is reserved to military pilots or pax. Are you one?
No, I was a civilian guest - as a journalist.
Awesome any pictures?
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Newcastle....

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MSS658 wrote: 01 Aug 2017, 01:18Newcastle....
Because of https://www.thesun.co.uk/travel/4120934 ... n-flights/ ?

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That was before... just a dirty and unpleasant expercience!

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Charlie Roy wrote: 22 Apr 2017, 10:26 U-Tapao airport in Thailand, had these signs in the toilets, still don't understand what toilet based activity they feel a need to discourage :shock:

Imagehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U-Tapao_I ... al_Airport

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Way to go: Sign advises non-westerners how to pooh

The graphic illustrations are designed to advise visitors from Islamic and Asian countries not to STAND on the toilet seat while defecating.

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Traditional toilets in many Asian countries require the user to stand up – and this approach was simply being transferred to western loos.

Now a series of signs explain how one should sit on a loo seat, rather than squat; and throw toilet paper into the lavatory, rather than into the bin.
One of the places the pictograms are on display is Mount Rigi railway, at Lake Lucerne. 
Roger Joss, director of marketing for the railway, said: “It happens that guests mount the toilet seats to do their business - and sometimes they don’t know where to put the toilet paper.”
Marcel Furer, head of the regional tourist office, added: ‘Tourists from the Gulf region or Asian countries are not very aware of our way of living. 

“It’s happened that people relieve themselves in the shower rather than in the toilet.”

Last year Lloyds Bank Bank's Old Broad Street office in central London, also put up instructions telling foreign staff how to use the loo, with details such as 'sit on the toilet - do not stand on it', and 'please flush it with your hand and not your foot'.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/588825 ... AND-on-loo

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Very funny sign
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Mumbai (BOM) seems to be a little odd surrounded by slums. Ok, I saw it before in latin American cities, but in BOM those houses are really close to the airport fence.
Als uncommon and unlogical that there is another airport (Juhu Executive) literally right across the street, at the end of the busiest runway.

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Two aerodromes very very near to each other is more common than you perhaps think. Some examples that come to mind:
LKKB Prague Kbely (military) and LKLT Letnany
Schwäbisch Hall has a recreational field EDTX just to the North of a business aerodrome EDTY

I am sure many more such situations exist.

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excellent museum at Kbely

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