That (in)famous airport could be a nice addition to Orbiter, now that we have terrain elevation. The runway is awfully short (527m or 1,729ft) and even worse built on a mountain side (it has a slope !) but this would precisely be the perfect place to have fun with that new terrain feature. And to practice hover-assisted takeoff/landing
Needless to say Mount Everest is not far away (actually most Everest climbers begin their trek to Base Camp from Lukla), so that would be the perfect starting point to try insane things like landing a DG on hovers on the top of the world :lol:
Here's the Wiki article : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenzing%E2%80%93Hillary_Airport
By the way, its do or die there : if you miss the runway, the mountain side stops you for good. No way to turn around.
Needless to say Mount Everest is not far away (actually most Everest climbers begin their trek to Base Camp from Lukla), so that would be the perfect starting point to try insane things like landing a DG on hovers on the top of the world :lol:
Here's the Wiki article : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenzing%E2%80%93Hillary_Airport
By the way, its do or die there : if you miss the runway, the mountain side stops you for good. No way to turn around.
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