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Eden Briand
Leonardo Meca
Ken.Kobashi
Gerard van Oostrom
Wallace Shackleton
Isac Mamede
BartvdElshout
Image ID: 372456
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Aircraft: - Airport Overview - - Runway, Taxiway
Airport: Ecuador - Latacunga - Cotopaxi (LTX / SELT)
Category: Main database
Photo taken on 2014-3-2 by JPC van Heijst [Contact]
Camera setting: NIKON D800, 1/400s, f/10.0 at 45mm ISO 320
Photographer's remark
(8.3.2014, 17:32 CET)
Latacunga airport, in the middle of the Ecuadorian Andes.
The airport is situated in a valley 9200ft (almost 3km) above sea level and surrounded by high volcanoes and mountains, making it one of the more interesting airports to fly to with a 747-sized aircraft. At this altitude the air is very thin and as a consequence the airspeed of the aircraft is very high, resulting in a much larger turn radius and with the terrain around us, with not much room to maneuver the airplane resulting in a 'one way in, one way out' airport with not much room to play around
1 Gerard van Oostrom
(8 March 2014 - 22:11 CET)
Thanks for the explanation.....you can feel the required concencentration!
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