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05-04-2020 | 01:41 PM

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From: Center of the Flyover States,

Landings at St. Barts - 7 commuter airplanes

If you generally admire a good landing here’s a short 4-minute rapid fire video of seven full-scale landings into St. Barts airport, located on a tiny eastern Caribbean island, Saint Barthélemy. From the direction shown landings are all downhill in the literal sense. There’s a stiff cross wind to boot. Approaches start at the 32 second point. The third approach is by a twin otter and it just doesn’t appear like it wants to come down without a fight. The fifth approach by a Pilatus PC-12 is the most “scary”; taking out road signs, bouncing off a truck top, parting the hill grass and then alighting like a butterfly.

The second 2-minute video is from inside a plane (Twin Otter, I think). You could start at the 1:30 point to speed things up.

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