Skyvan SC-7 Landing Tulsequah

[Garry Russell]

Here's one airstrip where FS can add all the trees it likes on approach.........an be right

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToefGa3t ... re=related

[DaveB]

Ooohhh.. that's a lovely little airfield isn't it!

ATB
DaveB

[Garry Russell]

Can you get the Vanguard in there??

[DaveB]

In there.. perhaps. Out again.. I doubt it

ATB
DaveB

[Tako_Kichi]

I wouldn't like to try it in IFR conditions or at night!

Unfortunately it doesn't exist in FSX.

[Garry Russell]

I can imagine not going for a few months then finding out the trees have grown

[Tako_Kichi]

From what I could turn up via Google it's a mining strip and only exists to service the mine in the area. Having looked at the area in GE it's going to be a major task getting the rock/ore out of there as there is the river (non-navigable by the seems of things) and nothing else but trees and mountains for miles around.

[Chris Trott]

I'm not convinced that is the Tulsequah Airstrip. I looked at Google and Bing and I can't match any location with the video. The mine airstrip is upstream from the town by several miles and has no blockage as shown by several other videos of the airstrip -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STsiJsIU ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vb32-DLo ... re=related

The only other airstrip I found in the area is to the east, and it is oriented wrong to the video.

I'll do some more digging because that's one hell of an airstrip.

[Garry Russell]

I would have thought they knew where they were going???

Wherever it is the point of the post was the exciting (i.e. hairy) approach and landing on a strip that's not really visible until the aircraft is committed to land.

Great entertainment

[nigelb]

Wow looks like they could have used some "exclude" areas when they built that landing strip! Very entertaining video, thanks Gary!

Nigel²