Airport Elevations
Phil M
world?
I know for a fact that somewhere in the states the altimeter registers below
sea level, and another some 9,000+ ". I'm wondering that if oxogen is
manditory by law for the crew immediately after takeoff in that airpace.
I'm searching now for the lowest and highest elevation fields worldwide.
BARR DOUG
Leadville Colorado is the highest public airport in the USA 9954' as I
recall. I'm sure it is NOT the highest in teh world though.
They land on Kahiltna Glacier in Alaska pretty high up. It's not exactly
an airport though. They land helicopters for rescues up high on Everest.
In article <5upO5.10386$m31.3...@wagner.videotron.net>,
Bob Weber
replaced now by the Oct. 1994 opening of the airport at Bangda in Eastern
Tibet. It is at 15,548 feet elevation and the runway length is 18,045 feet.
FS2000 does not have any airports in that region of China.
The lowest airport I could find in FS2000 is a I.Bar-Yehuda on the shore of the
Dead Sea. It's at N31* 20.17' E35* 23.41 at an elevation of -1,263 feet. Fly
the 144 radial from Ben Gurion and it's at 48.4 nm.
Phil M wrote:
> Does anyone know what is the Highest AND Lowest airport elevation in the
> world?
>
> I know for a fact that somewhere in the states the altimeter registers below
> sea level, and another some 9,000+ ". I'm wondering that if oxogen is
> manditory by law for the crew immediately after takeoff in that airpace.
>
> I'm searching now for the lowest and highest elevation fields worldwide.
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Bob,
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Mike Rapoport
helicopter land at 17,200 but I think that much higher landings have been
made in the Himalayas. The highest airplane takeoff I have heard about is
over 19,000' on Mt. Logan. It was initiated with a run down steep snow and
then launched off a cliff.
Mike
MU-2
BARR DOUG wrote in message <8ud8l7$jhr$1...@peabody.colorado.edu>...
Patric Barry
America, but I'm unsure about the rest of the world.
John Price
It's the highest paved airport in the US, that I do know
John Price
CFI/AGI
Martin Georg
"Patric Barry" <p...@ktb.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> Death Valley California is the lowest, I believe. It certainly is in North
> America, but I'm unsure about the rest of the world.
Amsterdam Schipol in 18 feet BELOW sea level, that愀 the most prominent
"low-level" airport in mid-europe.
Martin Georg/EDDF
David CL Francis
>Does anyone know what is the Highest AND Lowest airport elevation in the
>world?
La Paz in Bolivia is one of the highest major airports at 13,313 ft. I
am sure there is another even higher in the region of Tibet but
unfortunately although I read an article about it I cannot remember the
details. I believe it is at over 14,000 ft and was served by a 757 that
could only take about 60 passengers and has to carry fuel for the round
trip to 'somewhere' (India?) as there is no fuel at the airport.
I believe at la Paz attendants stand by as aircraft disembark ready with
oxygen cylinders for those who cannot take it!
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Frank van der Hulst
> I believe at la Paz attendants stand by as aircraft disembark ready with
> oxygen cylinders for those who cannot take it!
Hmmmm... normally aircraft are pressurised internally to about 5,000ft
equivalent. I wonder whether there's a whoosh of air going out as they
open the doors at La Paz??? :-)
Frank.
GWS
based on the location.
Frank van der Hulst <fra...@whanganui.ac.nz> wrote in message
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Fredrik Thörnell
>
> The flight eng. has a cabin pressure sys. theycan adj the cabin pressure
> based on the location.
Oh, add to that the fact that it operates by by injecting bleed air into the
cabin (after cooling it, doh!) and letting air out to ambient pressure through
valves. Can't ever get a cabin altitude below the atmospheric one. Vacuum
pumps have not been provided! :)
Cheers,
/ft
ian
atmospheric
altitude (i.e. when you are at 41,000 feet, the cabin altitude is somewhere
below
41,000 feet (we hope). The previous poster was correct in saying the Flight
Engineer (or pilot) controls the cabin altitude and sets it to landing field
elevation.
If this is set wrong, one of two things happens: If the altitude is set
above landing
airport elevation, when the outside presure equals the inside pressure on
the decent
(i.e. when the aircraft reaches the selected altitude) the cabin altitude
follows the ambinent
to the ground. This is no big deal except the aircraft is often decending
rapidly at this
point and so the cabin would also be decending rapidly. You may have
noticed this
on commercail flights where your ears pop most in the last few minuets of
landing.
If the cabin is set below the landing airport elevation, the airplane will
land pressurized.
Most airplanes automatically open the cabin presurization valves with the
Wieght On
Wheels is made so at this point a rush of air out of the valves would occure
causing
the cabin to climb quickly for a few seconds just after touch down (you may
have
noticed this as well on commercial flights). Not all airplanes operate in
the same way
so this will vary from aircraft to aircraft but this is the way all the Jet
aircraft I have
flown operate. Note that this is something of an art (as are many other
aspects of flying)
and some airplanes are more forgiving than others of mistakes.
Ian
> GWS wrote:
>
> Oh, add to that the fact that it operates by by injecting bleed air into
the
> cabin (after cooling it, doh!) and letting air out to ambient pressure
through
> valves. Can't ever get a cabin altitude below the atmospheric one. Vacuum
> pumps have not been provided! :)
>
> Cheers,
> /ft
Vacume pumps = less pressure = higher cabin altitude (Your right, we don't
have
them because it would make the altitude inside the airplane go the wrong
way!).
Fredrik Thörnell
> have
> them because it would make the altitude inside the airplane go the wrong
> way!).
Thanks for catching that one. Thinking pressure and typing altitude. I will
have to tell my fingers to listen up the next time. <G>
Cheers,
/ft
P.S. That post must be ages old?
Michael Angelo Ravera
the shores of the Dead Sea. One or the other of these would, doubtless,
be the lowest in the world.
Katmandu, surprisingly, has a lower elevation than Denver.
I believe that Sucre or Lhasa (don't know if it still has international
flights since the Chinese took over) would have the highest
INTERNATIONAL airport.
I believe that the Amsterdam airport in Nederlands is the lowest
INTERNATIONAL airport at 6 m below sea level.
BA and Shanghai are the two international airports that are farthest
apart.
Patric Barry wrote:
>
> Death Valley California is the lowest, I believe. It certainly is in North
> America, but I'm unsure about the rest of the world.
>
Mike Rapoport
there is an airport in Nepal that is about 14,000'.
A bush pilot landed a fixed wing aircraft on a ridge on Mt. Logan at about
19,000' as part of a rescue.
Mike
MU-2
Michael Angelo Ravera wrote in message <3A394B...@wcom.com>...
Paul Siller
>The landing strip on the Kahiltna Glacier is only 7000'. I believe that
>there is an airport in Nepal that is about 14,000'.
>
>A bush pilot landed a fixed wing aircraft on a ridge on Mt. Logan at about
>19,000' as part of a rescue.
>
>Mike
>MU-2
>
I recall their is an airfield at La Pas (Bolivia) at roughly
13,000 ft asl
Paul Siller
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Patric Barry
years ago - part of the deal was that they would have to relocate the airport
since the ore deposit was beneath the airport itself - and it was at 14,000
feet.