worst airports

[troyzohner]

For whatever reason, what are some of the airports that you have flown to that you would never want to go to again?

 

[ShawnC]

Titusville, FL: Has a descent café, cool museum, and a great view for shuttle launches even though TFRs now prevent flight for about 12 hours around the launch window, but man it feels like they put speed bumps on 9-27.

 

[LrBob]

telluride-9000ft agl and shape like a bow sitting on the side of a mountain suckkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkks

 

[tinman]

Provo, Utah. Doesn't have a tower, but one is long overdue.

 

[Dash8]

phl, worst friggin airport ever, bad design, overloaded (thanks US mgmt)

 

[floatflyer99]

Murphy Hot Springs, Idaho.
6000' elevation

5250' of the roughest, lumpiest grass known to man pockmarked with gopher holes.

Nobody around, no information postedl, no sign of life/civilization.

Walked down a dirt road into a ravine and saw the settlement in the distance. After a while, a pickup truck drove by with two stern black cowboy hat wearin' dudes. We waved and they just glowered. When they got about a hundred yards beyond us, however, they stopped and looked like they were thinking about coming back our way. The feeling in the pit of our stomachs told us they weren't considering giving us a lift or helpful advice. We were happy when after what seemed like forever, they started driving away again.

To make a long story short, we never did find any hot springs. That place gave me the creeps.

http://www.airnav.com/airport/3U0

 

[whereamI]

Barstow, CA- I think this is the most depressing airport I have ever had the displeasure of landing at.

Blythe, CA- A close second, that doesn't bring back great memories.

 

[Kingairrick]

MAC, Herbert Smart Field, Macon, GA. The main runway has a hump in the middle so you can't see if another aircraft is taking off right into you as you push the power up. There is no control tower. Plus, it's in Macon.....

 

[GCD]

Bangkok, Thailand

17R is like a washboard, which makes for really noisy takeoffs.

For some reason, the controllers like to land 17L and takeoff 17R, but the terminal is on the west side of the airport. This requires landing traffic to cross 17R to get to the terminal, which makes for exciting, heart-throbbing moments on takeoff when you see a B747 nose up to the runway during your takeoof roll. This is especially heart-trobbing when no one can understand the tower controller. "Did he clear them to cross or hold them short?"

What's really wacky, is when the crown prince decides to take a little spin in his F5 fighter, the airport closes down for him. He decided to take a little drive one day at the big arrival time of 3:00 pm. There was heavy metal all over the Thai airspace, coming in from every continent, and only one arrival controller. He became so frustrated trying to issue holding clearance, he got up and walked off the job.

Our airplane was on an opposite heading, at the same altitude of a Lufthansa B747. We mutually agreed to do our own noise abatement procedure by each turning 20 degress to the right away from each other (noise abatement because two B747's colliding would make a loud noise). About five minutes later, which seemed an eternity, a new controller stepped in with his best english, which was marginal to the aviators trying to understand him.

Well, we made it in just prior to reaching our planned divert fuel. One and a half hour later, after riding the bus through Bangkok traffic, we were at the hotel. Of course, an adult beverage in the bus was the custom because the drive is so long, and just as heart-throbbingly exciting as the previous arrival.

As we drank our beverages, we toasted to another successful arrival in Bangkok, and that we lived through another one.

 

[labbats]

Call me a crazy pilot, but that was well written, and now I want to fly into Bangkok.