Unusual landings 5: Fox Glacier Airport, New Zealand

Unusual landing 5.      The fifth video from the new Unusual landings video series shows landing on Fox Glacier Airport, New Zealand with very short runway.  

New Zealand, Fox Glacier - Landing and Take off

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Plane: Cessna 172.

Fox Glacier Aerodrome primarily serves the sightseeing and parachuting flights departing from here to the area of Mount Cook massif. The aerodrome has one sloping runway 09/27. There are high mountains behind the end of 09 so for landing it is the only direction to be used. 27 then serves just for take offs.

I was approaching 09 from the sea. During the approach I was trying to make out the threshold of the runway. It was only on final that I could realise the local practice of aircraft landing some 200 metres before the official threshold of 09 asphalt.

As the asphalt part of 09 is only some 300 metres long, pilots choose to land on a gravel path before it. It then converts into the asphalt (official) runway. There is no go around procedure available given the high mountains behind the end of 09. Departures are simpler – runway 27 slopes down so we took off well before the official end of 27. 

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