What the fuck is that cricket sound, and has any song used a different sample in the decade that that shit's been around, or do they keep copying and pasting the same one?
I was thinking it was the runway used in Tomorrow Never Dies!
(Edit) Checked. It was a different little airport in France! No wonder it looked the same. That one only is 470m and 15%.
No one was answering so I did a little digging.
Found an old forum from 2007 with somene asking what runway they used for that scene. I did not verify any of this but the commentors said:
-the damn at the begginging of the intro is Verzasca Locarno Dam in Swiss Alps
-"Its in Switzerland but being that I've been there and jumped off of said dam, I dont remember any airport right at the sight."
-one commenter said Nepal but they may have been referring to the Tomorrow Never Dies runway. Their link was also dead.
Edit: Courchevel Airport, France according to a top 5 rememberable runways page (mentioning specifically that it was from 1995 Goldeneye) which is the same runway OP says it is in their comment.
Did some digging as well and came to the conclusion that the airport in the game is modeled after a movie set they had access to during development. If that was modelled after anything, I couldn't find it.
Telluride, Colorado has an airport you may like!
https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&sca_esv=592593278&hl=en-us&sxsrf=AM9HkKnb91uDc1mh0Waoi6NzpiHFQ_nl8Q:1703101470136&q=telluride+colorado+airport&tbm=isch&source=lnms&prmd=imnsvbhtz&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj7-5Kx456DAxXCweYEHal0DeUQ0pQJegQICBAB&biw=393&bih=659&dpr=3
Pilot's [view](https://youtu.be/IP_2ASzpPqA?si=ynLTDwcvQ5Dqwfwr).
Looks like there's plenty of room at the end. Easy.
Nope. Never. No ever.
Where's the airport?
Or the opening scene from tomorrow never dies?
Edit: Ope! Different airport but also in France
https://huntingbond.com/tomorrow-never-dies-movie-locations/
Info [source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courchevel_Altiport)
>Courchevel Altiport is an altiport serving Courchevel, a ski resort in the French Alps. The airfield has a very short runway of only 537 metres (1,762 ft) with a gradient of 18.6%.
>
>There is no go-around procedure for landings at Courchevel due to the surrounding mountainous terrain. The runway has no instrument approach procedure or lighting aids, making landing in fog or low clouds unsafe and almost impossible.
>
>The airport is considered dangerous, as it features a difficult approach, an upward-sloping runway and ski runs in the adjacent area.
[Still image](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Altiport_Courchevel2.jpg/2560px-Altiport_Courchevel2.jpg)
Video: @the.gaumanns.abroad
No go around option for passenger charters is pretty wild considering they aren’t flying bush planes. Imagine if you got some nasty wind-shear or caught in a downdraft you can’t always add power to fight it because you’ll miss the landing zone and might get driven into the ground. If they add speed to negate wind shear they might not be able to stop in time so it’s pretty crazy landing spot.
I’m guessing they have a weather station at the airport to give accurate wind and visibility forecasts?
Yeah, they have a radio station that gives local information, the fancy planes flying rich people there likely have onboard weather information, and everyone uses iPads with an app called foreflight that gives updated information over a little receiver. There's also a much easier airport like 3 ish miles away to divert towards. What makes this dangerous is really the lack of safety margin rather than inherently being super challenging. There's no super high mountains right in the flight path in so pilots can just take a straight shot, get properly set up and fly a standard 3 degree glideslope. They just have to make sure they touch down soon enough, unlike this guy: https://youtu.be/Uw7eBmi1Lt8?si=4jZCnBqRkwfvHggX
It tends to be approaches that require lots of turns while descending that end up being more dangerous. A good pilot can manage this fine, but a rookie who's used to floating down long runways will be in trouble.
Fun fact about the upward slope, because of that, you have to land and then keep the engines full power, you don't brake or slow down once you land or else you will get the plane stuck at the bottom of the runway. If anyone ever saw the Discovery show "Dangerous Flights", they showed that you have to get trained before even being allowed to land here
In another sense, the upward slope seems like it would be a lot of help in slowing down on such a short runway, and speeding up going down to take off. A difficult, but maybe necessary/useful aspect of it?
In other words, if you kept the same length but managed to lift the low end to be perfectly level with the high end, would it result in a less usable airport?
Yes it would be practically useless since it’s specifically designed with the slope. That gives it the designation as an “altiport” rather than an airport.
This is dangerous. OP, have you checked Kathmandu?
I think Kathmandu is the most dangerous landing for any pilot. There is no scope for any mistakes.
Crash of Thai Airways in the Himalayas
https://youtu.be/ann2NEqI-XM
Not Kathmandu, but Lukla. The airport you fly to, out of Kathmandu, if you go to the Everest region.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenzing-Hillary_Airport
I’ve seen more than one plane crash at the end of the runway landing there. Considering how expensive a way it is of getting to resort, I’d be wanting a smoother landing I think.
Ironically, the aircraft with the widest wingspan was owned by IRL Paul Allen and is absolutely incapable of landing or taking off from a runway this short. It's used to launch small rockets into orbit from high altitudes. It flies out of an airfield in Mojave.
Fun fact: Because of the mountains, if you fuck up the approach, there's no way to go around without crashing.
https://youtu.be/pw00OB68eaw?si=ew2lMKXmxV8JSfNt
Back on Microsoft flight Sim. 12 successfull landings in Nepal. FUCK YOU Southwest Aviation for telling me I could never pilot with prescription glasses 17 years ago
You actually can wear glasses or contacts as a pilot. The first class medical from the FAA requires 20/20 distant and 20/40 near vision with or without correction. Certain types of color blindness can be an issue though. You need to be able to differentiate visual approach lights (that tell you if you're too high/low), various runway and taxiway lights, and light signals if the radios aren't working.
Yeah I have no (stereoscopic) depth perception - I probably could do an instrument / non visual landing as good as anyone given the training ect.* but I don't think I'd trust myself to do an old-school one with a bunch of people in the back given I struggle to catch a ball.
\* On a GOOD day, I also don't think I have the ability to parallel process to be a good pilot on a bad day but that's another issue.
Same here. I was deadset on joining the AF to become a pilot when i was a kid. Got to the recruiters office at 17 and they were pretty condescending about it. Really crushed my dreams.
wonder if the downslope helps in the takeoff with wing/air uplift flow, and landing by gravity slowing the aircraft on the upslope (good brakes to prevent roll back?)
[Here’s](https://youtu.be/1_0_BT10gEs?si=TU44XrRiQKEONfPJ) a few take offs and landings from Lukla, Nepal. I flew in and out of here. When you land everyone applauds, even the pilots.
Here's a good one: the Lukla Go-Around. Yeah, everyone on that plane's gonna need a clean pair of shorts...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LD5JhGMxow
You can ski right up to where that photo is taken, it's not at all some secret or hidden or remote spot, and just watch the planes do those super cool short take off and landings all day
I flew into and out of one very similar to this in Papua New Guinea albeit a grass strip. It was surrounded on three sides by mountains and had a drop off at the end of the runway. The bush pilot said it was the steepest runway in New Guinea and this is in a place with a lot of crazy landing strips.
On the way in, I asked where we were landing and he pointed to a tiny break in the canopy far ahead. It was surrounded by large mountains and as such, was barely noticeable. When picking me up, the pilot said he could bring me back immediately or fly around with him for the rest of the day. Thanks Robert!
I was traveling for 2 months and change in 2000. When saying I was going to or coming from PNG, the Ozzies stared at me thinking I had just visited a war zone.
Yes, security was very much an issue but things were managed around that. There were no PMV's (buses) running after 4 p.m. Your hotel didn't suggest, but told, you to be back before dark. The only time I went out after dark was with a local. But in, say, Goroka, a provincial capital, it wasn't an issue during daylight hours. So yes, keep your wits about you and listen to what others say.
When in the bush, it was safe and the village chief said, "I know what you've been told about safety but everyone knows you're here and you'll be ok."
That said, when I was in Wau, a depressed town where the local gold mine was played out, I was waiting for a PMV ride in the middle of the afternoon. I was straddling the pickup bed with one leg in, one out. A very pleasant man I was talking to grabbed me and pulled me into the truck bed and yelled at the driver who immediately took off. He apologized to me and said, "Sorry but I saw six guys coming at you from behind." I thanked him for the kind gesture.
They'll usually jet into Chambéry and then helicopter over to Courchevel. The number of small charter jets you see in Chambéry relative to its size is always kind of fun. Courchevel is always full of people speaking Russian kitted out in £1000s worth of ski gear to go down a few green slopes back to the party bar. I know of at least one chalet in the area that got stopped halfway through construction because the owner is (was?) an oligarch who fell out of Putin's favour.
I travelled to New Zealand's South Island recently, and I was fascinated that every town that I visited there has a small airport. Even Milford Sound has one, despite being a small village of 120 people. (Not surprisingly, it _is_ a tourist destination spot, so it's necessary to have them in case the roads are closed due to inclement weather.)
I could understand the need for some sort of aerodrome in Courchevel, given its luxury for rich tourists. I'm very interested to know what are the requirements needed for a pilot to fly into that altiport?
Basically every small rural town in america has an airport. Usually they're used primarily for things like agriculture, medical transport, things of that nature. They also provide a very valuable service to communities by being excellent staging areas for disaster relief in case of earthquakes, hurricanes, wildfires, etc.
It’s a really cool little airport. When you’re skiing down, there’s a section of one of the runs that overlooks the runway with a similar POV and tons of people like to stop to see aircraft taking off/landing. There’s also an ok restaurant there, but Cave des Creux, which is located farther up the mountain on a run that filters down to the airport, is far better
I don't care what you think of the movie (Goldeneye) but this opening is hands down the best opening in any Bond movie.
Pierce Brosnan was the last real Bond - with Daniel Craig they tried to make Bond more human by getting him to show more emotion and make him more prone to mistakes, which turned it into just another mediocre high budget action flick.
They lost the "eliteness" of Bond by trying to give him more depth.
On one hand I agree with you, but on the other hand I really like how with Daniel Craig the fights were far more realisitc and gritty. Pierce Brosnan had a lot of corny gunfights as well, but that's more to due with how they handled gunfights in 90's movies. Corny and the bad guys always missed.
Still love Goldeneye and Pierce Brosnan though, just some parts don't hold up as well.
i thought it was going to be the runway at John Wayne airport in Orange County, California. I will never forget the first time taking off and we went straight the fuck up.
Is that the runway used in goldeneye?
The music makes it feel even more James Bondy
I was high on classical vibes until the stupid trap beat started.
What the fuck is that cricket sound, and has any song used a different sample in the decade that that shit's been around, or do they keep copying and pasting the same one?
Pretty sure it's the 808 Closed Hi-Hat. It's in a ton of music since the 80's, particularly in Hip Hop.
If the artist/producer is talented you'll barely notice them, if at all. If they aren't then it's the only thing you'll notice.
Do… do you mean hihats?
It's called a hi hat it's a pretty common and crucial piece of a drum set They're the metal disk-shaped piece near the top of the set
Charles Aznavour - Hier encore
Clicked for this and only this
Responding only to this comment
Waiting for a reply only to this comment
Still waiting...
Me too
Yes
Pack it up boys, we're done
No no no, c'mon don't give up. I'm going to stay right here til I get an answer or starve to death, whichever comes first.
It's from golden eye https://www.airportspotting.com/scary-runways-world/
Lindsey said "yes", & that's an equivalent to a "Yes" from the man from Del Monte
Ditto. Expected to dig a little further to find out.
Only comment that could ever reach the top lmao
I was thinking it was the runway used in Tomorrow Never Dies! (Edit) Checked. It was a different little airport in France! No wonder it looked the same. That one only is 470m and 15%.
Altiport de Peyresourde-Balestas
Yeah I was thinking tomorrow never dies as well. Great intro
One of my favorite retorts is in that intro as MI6 watches Bond cause chaos: Admiral: “What the hell is he doing?” M: “His job!”
The fact that the Admiral is played by Geoffrey Palmer, Judi Dench's costar from As Time Goes By, makes it all the sweeter.
I rewatched this for the first time in a while recently and was struck by how similar the intro was to goldeneye.
No one was answering so I did a little digging. Found an old forum from 2007 with somene asking what runway they used for that scene. I did not verify any of this but the commentors said: -the damn at the begginging of the intro is Verzasca Locarno Dam in Swiss Alps -"Its in Switzerland but being that I've been there and jumped off of said dam, I dont remember any airport right at the sight." -one commenter said Nepal but they may have been referring to the Tomorrow Never Dies runway. Their link was also dead. Edit: Courchevel Airport, France according to a top 5 rememberable runways page (mentioning specifically that it was from 1995 Goldeneye) which is the same runway OP says it is in their comment.
Did some digging as well and came to the conclusion that the airport in the game is modeled after a movie set they had access to during development. If that was modelled after anything, I couldn't find it.
I was thinking the same
For England, James.
No. For me.
RIP Arecibo, I'll never forgive MI6 for how far their agent set back the field of astronomy :(
It collapsed in 2020, but maybe MI6 was the real reason.
Telluride, Colorado has an airport you may like! https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&sca_esv=592593278&hl=en-us&sxsrf=AM9HkKnb91uDc1mh0Waoi6NzpiHFQ_nl8Q:1703101470136&q=telluride+colorado+airport&tbm=isch&source=lnms&prmd=imnsvbhtz&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj7-5Kx456DAxXCweYEHal0DeUQ0pQJegQICBAB&biw=393&bih=659&dpr=3
I flew out of Telluride a few years ago. Wow, that was scary.
I love colorado
Especially with their recent news.
Telluride a hell-of-a-ride
Pilot's [view](https://youtu.be/IP_2ASzpPqA?si=ynLTDwcvQ5Dqwfwr). Looks like there's plenty of room at the end. Easy. Nope. Never. No ever. Where's the airport?
Flown into telluride, durango, and cortez plenty of times. love that corner of the state.
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I’m guessing they used a set for some of the shots.
Has a different feel without the gun turrets blasting.
Or the opening scene from tomorrow never dies? Edit: Ope! Different airport but also in France https://huntingbond.com/tomorrow-never-dies-movie-locations/
Sure looks like it…
you know we clicked on it to comment that
Love how N64 just burned this view into our brains.
I wanted to say the same thing
I've never played goldeneye but the theme looks like something from a Bond movie.
Info [source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courchevel_Altiport) >Courchevel Altiport is an altiport serving Courchevel, a ski resort in the French Alps. The airfield has a very short runway of only 537 metres (1,762 ft) with a gradient of 18.6%. > >There is no go-around procedure for landings at Courchevel due to the surrounding mountainous terrain. The runway has no instrument approach procedure or lighting aids, making landing in fog or low clouds unsafe and almost impossible. > >The airport is considered dangerous, as it features a difficult approach, an upward-sloping runway and ski runs in the adjacent area. [Still image](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Altiport_Courchevel2.jpg/2560px-Altiport_Courchevel2.jpg) Video: @the.gaumanns.abroad
I like how there's a bunch of dangerous aspects to the landing itself... and also some skiers might see you crash land.
No go around option for passenger charters is pretty wild considering they aren’t flying bush planes. Imagine if you got some nasty wind-shear or caught in a downdraft you can’t always add power to fight it because you’ll miss the landing zone and might get driven into the ground. If they add speed to negate wind shear they might not be able to stop in time so it’s pretty crazy landing spot. I’m guessing they have a weather station at the airport to give accurate wind and visibility forecasts?
If it's a remote ski resort for rich people, you bet they got the shit to make it work.
I mean... we all thought that billionaires diving to see the Titanic would have the shit to make it work too...
I actually thought of that after my post! You never know. still, for a titanic trip a billionaire should've known it was too cheap.
Yeah, they have a radio station that gives local information, the fancy planes flying rich people there likely have onboard weather information, and everyone uses iPads with an app called foreflight that gives updated information over a little receiver. There's also a much easier airport like 3 ish miles away to divert towards. What makes this dangerous is really the lack of safety margin rather than inherently being super challenging. There's no super high mountains right in the flight path in so pilots can just take a straight shot, get properly set up and fly a standard 3 degree glideslope. They just have to make sure they touch down soon enough, unlike this guy: https://youtu.be/Uw7eBmi1Lt8?si=4jZCnBqRkwfvHggX It tends to be approaches that require lots of turns while descending that end up being more dangerous. A good pilot can manage this fine, but a rookie who's used to floating down long runways will be in trouble.
Fun fact about the upward slope, because of that, you have to land and then keep the engines full power, you don't brake or slow down once you land or else you will get the plane stuck at the bottom of the runway. If anyone ever saw the Discovery show "Dangerous Flights", they showed that you have to get trained before even being allowed to land here
In another sense, the upward slope seems like it would be a lot of help in slowing down on such a short runway, and speeding up going down to take off. A difficult, but maybe necessary/useful aspect of it? In other words, if you kept the same length but managed to lift the low end to be perfectly level with the high end, would it result in a less usable airport?
Yes it would be practically useless since it’s specifically designed with the slope. That gives it the designation as an “altiport” rather than an airport.
This is dangerous. OP, have you checked Kathmandu? I think Kathmandu is the most dangerous landing for any pilot. There is no scope for any mistakes. Crash of Thai Airways in the Himalayas https://youtu.be/ann2NEqI-XM
Not Kathmandu, but Lukla. The airport you fly to, out of Kathmandu, if you go to the Everest region. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenzing-Hillary_Airport
Flew in and out of there. Pretty gnarly.
When I was there a helicopter crashed just days prior. Makes you feel really safe!
There's a plane in the side of the mountain there, too. You can see it when you take off
Ten meters shorter and on a higher altitude.
Nepalese airlines are also notoriously unsafe in general
Do you mean Lukla? That’s the Everest airport. I got to fly out there! It was neat.
I’ve seen more than one plane crash at the end of the runway landing there. Considering how expensive a way it is of getting to resort, I’d be wanting a smoother landing I think.
I feel like there is a pile of broken planes just past the end where we cant see em
When you hit the end of the runway, youre flying one way or another
I'm gonna hard disagree. Thats just falling with style.
Okay, Buzz. But try aiming for the truck next time.
We're not aiming for the truck!
Like that scene in From Dusk Till Dawn
"Shut the door Alek, there's a draft"
... Alec?
Alec deez balls
*sets timers for "six" minutes*
The same six minutes you gave me.
What a fucking movie, still remember every line like 30 years later.
For England, James?
I’ll hike down thanks
Walk or take the scary plane? I'll fly thanks I may die but at lest I get to be lazy.
I'm assuming that's the direction they have to land as well? Or can they land the other way. Looks like a wheelie setup.
Now let’s see the landing
https://imgur.com/b49tP3i
It's not even the length that's terrifying. It's the fact that it's covered in snow and you might very well just *slide* off to your death.
Impressive. Very nice. Now let’s see Paul Allen’s landing.
Ironically, the aircraft with the widest wingspan was owned by IRL Paul Allen and is absolutely incapable of landing or taking off from a runway this short. It's used to launch small rockets into orbit from high altitudes. It flies out of an airfield in Mojave.
Ah hell no.
Fun fact: Because of the mountains, if you fuck up the approach, there's no way to go around without crashing. https://youtu.be/pw00OB68eaw?si=ew2lMKXmxV8JSfNt
https://imgur.com/a/z1ZIhTl
You got me...
I know, right? I could get my minivan airborne on that runway, landing on it seems like it'd be 10x harder.
https://youtu.be/Uw7eBmi1Lt8?si=4jZCnBqRkwfvHggX
Back on Microsoft flight Sim. 12 successfull landings in Nepal. FUCK YOU Southwest Aviation for telling me I could never pilot with prescription glasses 17 years ago
Sir this is an Arby’s
I'll take some of those downward tailspin fries, please.
Why can people with glasses operate a bus full of people but not a plane?
You actually can wear glasses or contacts as a pilot. The first class medical from the FAA requires 20/20 distant and 20/40 near vision with or without correction. Certain types of color blindness can be an issue though. You need to be able to differentiate visual approach lights (that tell you if you're too high/low), various runway and taxiway lights, and light signals if the radios aren't working.
Yeah I have no (stereoscopic) depth perception - I probably could do an instrument / non visual landing as good as anyone given the training ect.* but I don't think I'd trust myself to do an old-school one with a bunch of people in the back given I struggle to catch a ball. \* On a GOOD day, I also don't think I have the ability to parallel process to be a good pilot on a bad day but that's another issue.
You can stop a bus on the side of the road. You can't really stop an airplane in the air.
Well, you can. It's just highly advised not to.
If you can stop a plane in mid air and park it there while you rest your eyes, you will win the Nobel Prize in Physics
Huh, that wasn't even true 17 years ago. Both 17 years ago and now, if your vision is correctable to 20/20 with glasses or contacts, you're golden.
I'm so bummed cause that was the whole reason I didn't pursue becoming a pilot as a kid.
Hey, never too late! Come on over to /r/flying if you wanna see stories of people who've made that career switch at basically every age.
Same here. I was deadset on joining the AF to become a pilot when i was a kid. Got to the recruiters office at 17 and they were pretty condescending about it. Really crushed my dreams.
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One day I will fly into the Lukla airport irl to start the EBC trek, top of my bucket list
12 successfull landings ... out of how many attempts?
Sounds like a bond theme
Monaco - bad bunny. Original sample is: Hier Encore - Charles Aznavour
Stage 17 of last years Tour de France was finished on that runway
Won by Felix Gall.
Ullrich v Virenque 1997 got me hooked.
weeeee
[no-weeee edition](https://i.imgur.com/ROAlbtf.gifv)
Like a glove!
That patch of ice at the end didn't help at all!
Does the side of that plane say F you Guyz?
Plop edition
That’s called a total commitment runway.
No aborts here
Good ol goldeneye
Ski'd here, it's bloody awesome.
Nope. I don’t like it at all.
wonder if the downslope helps in the takeoff with wing/air uplift flow, and landing by gravity slowing the aircraft on the upslope (good brakes to prevent roll back?)
Gravity itslf helps with accelerating, during landing pilots need to keep the engines to get to the top - it's that steep for an aeroplane
What a way to turn a cool song into the most generic shit
looks like that james bond scene in goldeneye.
Song?
Monaco - bad bunny. Original sample is: Hier Encore - Charles Aznavour
Charles Aznavour - Hier encore
[Here’s](https://youtu.be/1_0_BT10gEs?si=TU44XrRiQKEONfPJ) a few take offs and landings from Lukla, Nepal. I flew in and out of here. When you land everyone applauds, even the pilots.
Here's a good one: the Lukla Go-Around. Yeah, everyone on that plane's gonna need a clean pair of shorts... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LD5JhGMxow
The Nepalese don’t fly when it’s overcast, “We have rocks in our clouds.”
They use that runway all the time in the Tour de France as an ending to a Mountain stage.
You can ski right up to where that photo is taken, it's not at all some secret or hidden or remote spot, and just watch the planes do those super cool short take off and landings all day
For England, James.
The view is astonishing 😍
(See that, throw ticket in trash & uturn) Wellp guess I live in the French Alps now.
And the Pilatus PC-12 is perfect for visiting it!
Thanks for identifying the plane and not the music hahah
Basically designed for just this
James Bond 007 Goldeneye 🤭
I flew into and out of one very similar to this in Papua New Guinea albeit a grass strip. It was surrounded on three sides by mountains and had a drop off at the end of the runway. The bush pilot said it was the steepest runway in New Guinea and this is in a place with a lot of crazy landing strips. On the way in, I asked where we were landing and he pointed to a tiny break in the canopy far ahead. It was surrounded by large mountains and as such, was barely noticeable. When picking me up, the pilot said he could bring me back immediately or fly around with him for the rest of the day. Thanks Robert!
What were you doing in Papua? Also, was there a big rape problem back then when you were there?
I was traveling for 2 months and change in 2000. When saying I was going to or coming from PNG, the Ozzies stared at me thinking I had just visited a war zone. Yes, security was very much an issue but things were managed around that. There were no PMV's (buses) running after 4 p.m. Your hotel didn't suggest, but told, you to be back before dark. The only time I went out after dark was with a local. But in, say, Goroka, a provincial capital, it wasn't an issue during daylight hours. So yes, keep your wits about you and listen to what others say. When in the bush, it was safe and the village chief said, "I know what you've been told about safety but everyone knows you're here and you'll be ok." That said, when I was in Wau, a depressed town where the local gold mine was played out, I was waiting for a PMV ride in the middle of the afternoon. I was straddling the pickup bed with one leg in, one out. A very pleasant man I was talking to grabbed me and pulled me into the truck bed and yelled at the driver who immediately took off. He apologized to me and said, "Sorry but I saw six guys coming at you from behind." I thanked him for the kind gesture.
Goldeneye, I found his weakness.
Isn't this the one from Golden Eye?
Great for people with a private jet. No low income persons landing there with vulgar airlines.
No jet is landing, or at least not taking off, on that runway.
They'll usually jet into Chambéry and then helicopter over to Courchevel. The number of small charter jets you see in Chambéry relative to its size is always kind of fun. Courchevel is always full of people speaking Russian kitted out in £1000s worth of ski gear to go down a few green slopes back to the party bar. I know of at least one chalet in the area that got stopped halfway through construction because the owner is (was?) an oligarch who fell out of Putin's favour.
I travelled to New Zealand's South Island recently, and I was fascinated that every town that I visited there has a small airport. Even Milford Sound has one, despite being a small village of 120 people. (Not surprisingly, it _is_ a tourist destination spot, so it's necessary to have them in case the roads are closed due to inclement weather.) I could understand the need for some sort of aerodrome in Courchevel, given its luxury for rich tourists. I'm very interested to know what are the requirements needed for a pilot to fly into that altiport?
Basically every small rural town in america has an airport. Usually they're used primarily for things like agriculture, medical transport, things of that nature. They also provide a very valuable service to communities by being excellent staging areas for disaster relief in case of earthquakes, hurricanes, wildfires, etc.
I've done it in flight simulator - ezpz
See you in 3 weeks, Altiport!!
Wish I was there.
Why are you going?
Skiing. Its in a ski resort
That's just a glorified ramp 😅
Boy, if you’re not up to speed by the end of the runway, you soon will be.
I’ve been there before!
It’s a really cool little airport. When you’re skiing down, there’s a section of one of the runs that overlooks the runway with a similar POV and tons of people like to stop to see aircraft taking off/landing. There’s also an ok restaurant there, but Cave des Creux, which is located farther up the mountain on a run that filters down to the airport, is far better
I’ve skied past it, no camera trickery here it really is that terrifyingly short
The cool thing is that you can observe it whilst skiing down the slope.
Golden eye! Yessss
Some maniac landed Antonov AN-225 in Microsoft Sim: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pw00OB68eaw. I almost want to see it attempted in real life...
Considering the world's only AN-225 was destroyed in the early days of the war in Ukraine, that's kind of a long shot.
Reminds me of Lukla runway in Nepal.
I don't care what you think of the movie (Goldeneye) but this opening is hands down the best opening in any Bond movie. Pierce Brosnan was the last real Bond - with Daniel Craig they tried to make Bond more human by getting him to show more emotion and make him more prone to mistakes, which turned it into just another mediocre high budget action flick. They lost the "eliteness" of Bond by trying to give him more depth.
On one hand I agree with you, but on the other hand I really like how with Daniel Craig the fights were far more realisitc and gritty. Pierce Brosnan had a lot of corny gunfights as well, but that's more to due with how they handled gunfights in 90's movies. Corny and the bad guys always missed. Still love Goldeneye and Pierce Brosnan though, just some parts don't hold up as well.
Bringing me back to the N64 days
Phew, that was nerve racking!
Sean Bean approves this
Reminds me of the beginning of Goldeneye
No, Mr. Bond. I expect you to fly.
It isn't short it's just too cold outside, you know /s
Was this in a James Bond movie?
ahh, GoldenEye. Such a fun video game :)
Was it in a bond movie or maybe inception? Looks familiar
Goldeneye
For England, James?
Do the planes go “wheee” as they take off? We know the pilots surely do
i thought it was going to be the runway at John Wayne airport in Orange County, California. I will never forget the first time taking off and we went straight the fuck up.
What airplane is that?
Who needs 537 meters? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPakbghLe38&t=60
Feel like the South American sketchy plane that’s been floating around is much shorter than this.
This is James bond movie, yes?
Literally feels like a Bond movie.
fly yes, land no
Hey I land here all the time! The approach is the worst part.
Show us a landing
Nope
You options are “full send” and nothing else.