What's the most obscure airport you've visited?

[VPS]

Also landed at Innamincka airport and then at the dig tree - don't think that has an airport name

 

[Seat0B]

Hardly an obscure airport but I do fondly remember descending into Kowloon throwing a right ant the checker board marker and hopefully arriving at Kai Tak International. Much more engaging than Chep Lok

Yes me too! Did it in 1975, 1977 and 1982. It was spectacular flying past the high rise buildings.

Been to quite a few weird local strips sitting in Seat 0B with Mr Seat 0A in the Grumman Tiger - for example YBUY ( Bunyan airfield outside Cooma - glider airfield mainly but you can land there with permission if no gliding ops)

Great thread @Mattg.

 

[nancypants]

Mount Eba?. Maybe on the Stuart Highway?

Good to know but I understand Some still use Dunny rolls as the rollout progresses. Problem with Dunny rolls is that it's messy and the burn does not last long.

They are a real nightmare so I’m glad they’re gone. Not quite as bad as the flares at Marree but I don’t think they were regulation!!

 

[Cossie]

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Yes me too! Did it in 1975, 1977 and 1982. It was spectacular flying past the high rise buildings.

From todays Age, Traveller Section.

 

[p--and--t]

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From todays Age, Traveller Section.

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A thrilling landing indeed, coupled with the fact it was my first international flight with the family on B747 AN887 in 1996. Had hundreds and hundreds of domestic sectors under my belt, but first international and first landing in another country. Unforgettable!

 

[Quickstatus]

spectacular flying past the high rise buildings.

And Mrs Wong's laundry drying on balconies.

 

[Sprucegoose]

A thrilling landing indeed, coupled with the fact it was my first international flight with the family on B747 AN887 in 1996. Had hundreds and hundreds of domestic sectors under my belt, but first international and first landing in another country. Unforgettable!

Yes, unforgettable indeed. ....I never tired of the checkerboard turn and was privileged to have done it many times.

AN887.......also a most memorable flight.

Vale AN.

 

[AIRwin]

And Mrs Wong's laundry drying on balconies.

Dried by the jet blast?

 

[Sprucegoose]

Dried by the jet blast?

 

[AIRwin]

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All hot air?

 

[Sprucegoose]

All hot air?

thats how you dry your clothes......

 

[Guvner]

Hardly an obscure airport but I do fondly remember descending into Kowloon throwing a right ant the checker board marker and hopefully arriving at Kai Tak International. Much more engaging than Chep Lok

I remember waking up on a CX approach from MEL and the first thing I saw out the window was the checkerboard. Scared the cough out of me. It was 1993 and my first ever OS flight.
Next up I saw a CI 747 sitting in the water. Welcome to HKG.



"Upon reaching a small hill marked with a checkerboard in red and white, used as a visual reference point on the final approach (in addition to the middle marker on the Instrument Guidance System), the pilot needed to make a 47° visual right turn to line up with the runway and complete the final leg. The aircraft would be just two nautical miles (3.7 km) from touchdown, at a height of less than 1,000 feet (300 m) when the turn was made. Typically the plane would enter the final right turn at a height of about 650 feet (200 m) and exit it at a height of 140 feet (43 m) to line up with the runway. This manoeuvre has become widely known in the piloting community as the “Hong Kong Turn” or “Checkerboard Turn”."

 

[Quickstatus]

Welcome to HKG.

I dunno how the pilots do the IGS Rwy 13 especially in a (often) right crosswind and after electronically aiming the aircraft into the side of a hill...

Next up I saw a CI 747 sitting in the water

The first ever hill loss of a 747-400. Was a stormy day on that day.

 

[Sprucegoose]

Next up, I saw a CI 747 sitting in the water. Welcome to HKG.

I recall that it was after a typhoon and a brand-new plane. They repainted the tail post incident—a dramatic lesson in saving face, for me, at the time.

 

[justinbrett]

Gove in the Northern Territory.

I’m not sure Gove is that obscure - it had Qantas jet services until recently. It’s better equipped than a lot of regional QLD airports.

 

[astrosly]

Talbingo airport YTBG. visited on horseback, good place for a canter.

 

[Bjet]

Hmmm interesting question..

When a huge 747-300 arrived in Brisbane many years ago, I was suprised to see that there were some cracks on the taxiiways and then saw only a small terminal on the ground. There was no passenger bridge so we had to use the stair to climb down. It was like it took me back to old times! Never thought of that a huge plane parked next to the one small and lonely rectangle terminal.

Also Hamburg is an interesting airport. I think that there was only one international foreign airline - Emirates. It was difficult for a huge 777-300ER plane to move around the narrow taxiways and small apron. That was why it had to follow a small car that showed "FOLLOW ME". I think it now upgraded to A380.

 

[Quickstatus]

Talbingo airport YTBG

The Snowy Valleys Council community 2028 strategic plan mentions YTBG. Their strategic plan includes a statement:
"opening up of Talbingo airport to cater to luxury travellers"

As the grass strip is only 750m long, no "luxury" jet can take off or land there, let alone a Cessna 172.
Maybe helicopters from CBR? and model airplanes.

 

[Cossie]

Honkers in 1984, my photo. The original was a slide converted to a tiff (90mb), then cleaned up with topaz and cut down with Snipping tool.....

 

[JOHN D HOLMES]

There was an airstrip at Fingal where one needed to ring the council and get them to take down the marker posts on the road.