Land in the sand?

[Olli Vainio]

Don't know about sand, but Canadian North flies it's B732's to gravel strips...or at least did when they filmed this: http://www.worldairroutes.com/CanNorth.html

[BA747-436]

Still trying to find a cheap flight into barra from GLA. At the moment the cheeky gits want £75! Would be amazing fun though. would love to shoot there at sunset

[MaxPower]

Alec, That's a mad prop there man.

Wicked !

[screaming_emu]

"Hey lets surprise the tower, I bet they've never seen a 737 land in the staff carpark. Don't worry though I'll only do it once"

Insert Southwest MDW accident joke here

[Mungous]

It is possible to land in the sand?

In the sand, yes. On the sand, well that's different

you can do anything once

"Hey lets surprise the tower, I bet they've never seen a 737 land in the staff carpark. Don't worry though I'll only do it once"

[JordanD]

Your traning to be a pilot aren't you...jesus...I'll pass on your flights.

I think you were missing his point. You can try anything once but you might not still be alive to try it again. Unless I'm wrong too.

[uy707]

Thinking a bit about it, there is a case where planes regularly land on a sandy ground, and that would be Barra airport, in Northern Scotland IIRC. Regardless of the name, the airport's runways are dependent on the tide, as the runways most of the day are underwater, and as such obviously not made of concrete or other stuff, but just regular sand from the sea. Of course, the consistency of that sand is higher than, say, sand in the Sahara, but it's still sand nonetheless.

YES and YES and YES

Served since the mid 50s initially by BEA Scottland with Dragon Rapides and later with DH114 Herons. Next stuff to show up were today's Twotters.

Alain

[Cam]

The skies are not safe anymroe.

[screaming_emu]

Your traning to be a pilot aren't you...jesus...I'll pass on your flights.

I already am one...


...and even scarier I'm also a flight instructor.

on that note

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[DAL767-400ER]

Thinking a bit about it, there is a case where planes regularly land on a sandy ground, and that would be Barra airport, in Northern Scotland IIRC. Regardless of the name, the airport's runways are dependent on the tide, as the runways most of the day are underwater, and as such obviously not made of concrete or other stuff, but just regular sand from the sea. Of course, the consistency of that sand is higher than, say, sand in the Sahara, but it's still sand nonetheless.

[Cam]

you can do anything once

Your traning to be a pilot aren't you...jesus...I'll pass on your flights.

[screaming_emu]

you can do anything once

[DAL767-400ER]

ROFL

[ASpilot2be]

Of course, all you need are some gnarly tundra tires

[Simpleboy]

Everything is possible. Is it possible to be successful is the question.