Why are there residential areas and trees near the airport, even though during wartime emergency airports there are no trees in front of the runway?
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In Switzerland we have mountains in front of airfields.
Intentionally.
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The terrain of Switzerland’s main military bases is not that extreme, but Switzerland does have a series of supporting highway runways, which is undeniable.
the best Anti Air, eh?
Not in front In the sides
And you have 4km until you meet a mountain, all the Airfields I’m Greece at least have no trees in kilometres but in war Thunder you have 30m trees 40meters away from the runway
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have you seen london city airports takeoff route? its almost directly into what was (in the process of being built to be) the tallest building in London at the time of its opening
It is my lack of understanding; the layout of the international airport closest to me and the layout of the small airport are shown in the figure.
The nearest military Yanliang Test Flight Academy Airport to me is shown in the figure.
Military helicopter airport
I guess for the sake of immersion it’s best to imagine the airfields are make-shift or very rushed in construction. Instead of realising that gaijin just picked a random spot on a premade model
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Still even in that you will never have any tress in front of the runways
Because everything Gaijin does is a half-assed rush job
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Now with the arrestor cables I am trying to land in the start of the runway and I can’t because of the trees, and I have died so many times in Sim because I didn’t calculate that they would be trees in front of the runway
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Congonhas Airport is literally in the middle of the largest city in Latin America.
No runway overshoots allowed (IYKYK)
Wow, does this comply with the regulations? How is the noise handled?
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Congonhas sits in a strange place, it was opened in 1936 (Brazil’s second airport, and the first civilian) and at that time it was on the outskirts of the city but as the city grew it was swallowed by it. But since it sits in the middle of the city it’s very importat to Brazil’s regional air trafic, today it operates only domestic flights, as for the noise some people tried to get it shut off, but the court basically said “you were the one who bought a house near the airport, you shouldn’t expect silence there”.
Sadly it was the scene of the 2 largest air disasters in brazillian aviation: TAM flight 402 in 1996 were the thrust reversal opened on his on shortly after takeoff; and TAM flight 3054 in 2007, when a A320 did not slow down normally due to a wet runway and a engine problem, veering to the left and slaming a TAM Cargo terminal and a gas station, 187 people died.
thanks
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Kinda feel like Gibraltar really needs mentioning in this thread
The road literally crosses the runway :D
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That’s the neat part, it isn’t
“Sorry i’m late boss, a plane had a flat on the runway”
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Meiringen certainly is the one where this is most pronounced in the Swiss AF bases still in use today, but others were more extreme (but manageable of course), especially e.g. Ambri and Interlaken. St.Stephan was also nice with rather large buildings of a wood mill just 100, 150 meters short of the runway. Landed there once in a Hunter, that was actually quite impressive how low one approaches over those buildings.
I heard stories how e.g. ground crew sometimes had to remove fir branches from the undercarriages after “sporty” landings in Interlaken (Rwy 05, coming in over a mountain ridge)… = )
While standard NATO approaches are witha 3-4° slope, some Swiss airbases had 10° and for GCA approaches even steeper glideslopes.
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Ambri is an interesting one but in that too you have 1.1km + until you meet the start of the mountain, in Interlaken you have a village in one side but still the houses aren’t that big and in St.Stephan you have 4km at least,
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I mean yea most bases don’t have mountains all around like Switzerland, even in a country like Switzerland the airfield aren’t cover from the front with trees or building, I wish one day Gaijin fix this issue specially now that they have put the arrestor cables