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[theweaselking]

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[cmseward.livejournal.com]

There's a runway you wouldn't want to miss while landing.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Missing *any* runway sucks.

[cmseward.livejournal.com]

Well, yeah, but there's at least a chance of regaining control if you end up on the grass at the side of most of them. Into the water, not so much.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

The good news is, that's a taxiway, not a runway.

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0930505/M/

So they're neither landing nor taking off there.

[cmseward.livejournal.com]

That made me feel better, until I clicked the link and saw the actual runway. I'm with silmaril on this one - will not be flying there.

[silmaril.livejournal.com]

OK, where is this airport so that I might never fly into there?

I hate the approach to DC National, where your wheels touch the runway about two meters past the Potomac River shore; one time I landed at SF I was close to panicking, and I hate one runway in Istanbul Ataturk airport because you approach over the Marmara Sea and touch down almost immediately after you pass the shoreline again.

I'm OK with flying. Overwater approaches to landing, however, make me tense.

[penguinicity.livejournal.com]

Macau. Here's an overview (http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0930505/M/). Building runways, or even entire airports (like Kansai International in Japan) on artificial islands is quite trendy in Asia these days.

[harper-knight.livejournal.com]

How about LA? where you land facing TOWARDS the ocean, sometimes. or Wellington, NZ, which is worse because it always has horrible turbulence, AND you land on the only flat land in the city, which is, you guessed it, reclaimed land, in a place almost as earthquake-prone as California.

This country's weird.

[giza.livejournal.com]

I like those tiny guardrails along the sides. Like they'll stop a 747 from falling into the water. :-P