princes juliana airport

The pilot has to continuously monitor the aircraft’s instruments and also should have clear visual at the runway because the plane has to fly over the sea at very low height and thus there is a risk of touching the water which can lead to disaster. The take-off has more restrictions than the arrival. You take off right towards the hills, and it requires an early right turn to avoid. An engine failure requires a visual climb-out between two of those hills, to guarantee obstacle clearance. Usually you have a nice little headwind to help you out.
Take-off’s by big aircraft usually get a lot of attention, you backtrack onto the main runway, do a 180. Right behind the aircraft there is a fence followed by a small road and than a public beach. Some to the more adventurous souls think it is a good idea to get up to the fence and hang on as we bring up the power. The road closes during these take-off’s. Several of these brain surgeons have been hurt in the past. Having been blow back across the road and the beach into the water. Worth your time if you want to visit a nice tropical location and aircraft are your passion.
After going through many photo’s of Princess Juliana International Airport, St Maarten I was amazed how low the aircraft comes for landing. It’s so low that you can hit it with a rock. And During takeoff from 09 side the thrust of jet at full power is so much that people on the runway literally thrown off into the sea. It’s really amazing and cool, and people at first thought that these landing pictures were fake but gradually with time and technology it was clear that the landings were very much thrilling and the
Princess Juliana International Airport (PJIA) is on the Dutch sector of the Island of St Martin (Philipsburg) in the Caribbean – the island is divided between Dutch and French sovereignty. The airport handled around 1.85 million passengers in 2007 (the original terminal only had a capacity of 1.2 million passengers a year). The airport consists of only one runway with approaches from 27/o9, and also is one of the shortest runways in the world(2,180m, 7,152ft). The largest planes approaching the island fly extremely low and pass only 10m to 20m (30ft to 60ft) over the main beach (Maho).
According to the Aviation Safety Network, the only one that looks like a fatality accident at or near that airport (and I can’t be sure, there’s not much data to go by) was in December 1972, when a DeHavilland DHC-6 Twin Otter crashed on approach, killing the 11 passengers and 2 crewmembers on board. Thus the airport is much safer and brings about more passengers.